Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam to Japan: Airport Transfers by Flight Number (PR, VN, MH, GA, 5J, VJ, D7 Arrival Times 2026)

Start with the arrival time, not the country

Most guides to Southeast Asian travel in Japan sort by nationality. That is the wrong axis. A family from Jakarta landing at Haneda at 08:50 and a family from Kuala Lumpur landing at Narita at 07:40 have almost the same morning: through the airport by mid-morning, at the hotel hours before check-in opens, and hungry. A family from Manila landing at Narita at 20:20 has a completely different evening, and a family landing at Haneda at 00:45 has no trains at all.

So this guide is organised by when your aircraft actually touches down. Every time below is the published schedule for September 2026, checked on two separate operating days; airlines retime, so treat them as the shape of the day rather than a guarantee and confirm your own date with the airline. Where we quote our own numbers, they come from 599 airport transfers booked on Philippine Airlines, Vietnam Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Garuda, Cebu Pacific, VietJet and AirAsia X flights in our booking records to date: 425 pickups and 166 drop-offs.

Two findings from that data are worth putting up front, because they contradict what people expect. First, Haneda is not the minor airport for this region: 175 of our 425 Southeast Asian pickups were at Haneda rather than Narita. Second, the destination is overwhelmingly a hotel, not a theme park. Shinjuku is the single most common drop-off area at 94 of those pickups; the Tokyo Disney Resort area accounts for 24.

Arrivals at Narita from Southeast Asia

Narita takes the long overnight sector from Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta, plus the daytime Manila and Cebu rotations. Departure times are local at the origin.

Flight	From	Departs	Lands Narita
JL752	Hanoi	23:20	06:40
JL724	Kuala Lumpur	22:50	06:55
NH898	Hanoi	23:35	06:55
JL726	Jakarta	21:50	07:25
VN310	Hanoi	00:25	07:35
MH88	Kuala Lumpur	23:30	07:40
VJ822	Ho Chi Minh City	23:35	07:55
5J5062	Cebu	01:45	07:55
VN306	Ho Chi Minh City	00:20	08:00
VJ932	Hanoi	00:30	08:00
GA880	Denpasar	00:20	08:50
5J5054	Manila	06:50	12:25
PR428	Manila	07:35	13:00
PR434	Cebu	08:25	14:10
NH820	Manila	09:10	14:50
NH834	Ho Chi Minh City	07:00	15:10
NH816	Kuala Lumpur	07:15	15:30
JL746	Manila	10:05	15:30
NH836	Jakarta	06:10	15:45
JL750	Ho Chi Minh City	08:00	16:00
MH70	Kuala Lumpur	09:50	18:05
PR432	Manila	14:50	20:20

From Narita, RydAgent's fixed price to any address in the Tokyo 23 wards is ¥24,000 by Alphard for up to 4 passengers with 4 large suitcases, or ¥30,000 by HiAce for up to 9 passengers with 9 large suitcases. To the Tokyo Disney Resort hotels at Maihama it is ¥24,000 and ¥28,000. To Yokohama it is ¥33,000 for either vehicle. The drive to central Tokyo is about 75 minutes in normal traffic.

Arrivals at Haneda from Southeast Asia

Haneda carries more of this region than its reputation suggests, and it is the cheaper airport to be transferred from because it is roughly half the distance.

Flight	From	Departs	Lands Haneda
PR424	Manila	19:15	00:45
VJ820	Ho Chi Minh City	16:30	01:00
JL78	Manila	23:25	04:45
NH856	Jakarta	21:25	06:50
JL70	Ho Chi Minh City	23:15	06:55
NH892	Ho Chi Minh City	23:15	07:00
GA874	Jakarta	23:25	08:50
PR422	Manila	08:15	13:35
VN384	Hanoi	08:05	15:05
NH872	Jakarta	07:00	16:25
NH870	Manila	14:40	20:00
NH886	Kuala Lumpur	14:15	22:15
D7522	Kuala Lumpur	14:10	22:35

From Haneda, RydAgent's fixed price is ¥16,000 by Alphard or ¥20,000 by HiAce (up to 9 passengers) to the Tokyo 23 wards, the same to the Tokyo Disney Resort hotels, ¥17,000 and ¥21,000 to Yokohama, and ¥46,000 and ¥59,000 to Hakone. The drive to central Tokyo is about 40 minutes. If you are still choosing between two itineraries and the airfares are close, the ground transfer alone is ¥8,000 to ¥10,000 cheaper on the Haneda side.

One Kansai note, because it catches people out: MH52 from Kuala Lumpur does not go to Tokyo at all. It leaves at 22:25 and lands at Kansai at 05:55. From Kansai, RydAgent's fixed price is ¥19,000 by Alphard or ¥24,000 by HiAce into Osaka city, and ¥30,000 or ¥34,000 to a Kyoto hotel.

The 06:40 to 08:50 morning wall

Look at the Narita table again and you will see eleven Southeast Asian arrivals land inside two hours of each other. This is the defining pattern of the region: the sector is long enough that the overnight departure is the sensible one, so Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Denpasar all deliver you into Tokyo at breakfast time, tired, with your body clock one or two hours behind and standard hotel check-in still six hours away.

What that means practically. Immigration and baggage at Narita on a morning bank runs 45 to 75 minutes, so a 07:40 landing puts you kerbside around 08:45 and at a Shinjuku hotel around 09:45. Almost every Tokyo hotel will hold luggage from that hour, and many will release a room early if one is clean, but you cannot count on it. The useful move is to treat the morning as a real half-day rather than a waiting room: leave the bags, eat, and start.

The transfer decision here is not close. Nine people off MH88 with nine suitcases cannot use the Narita Express in any comfortable sense, and a morning bank is exactly when the airport taxi rank is thinnest relative to demand. One HiAce at ¥30,000 fixed takes all nine of you and all nine cases to one hotel door. For a couple with light bags, the Narita Express at ¥3,140 per person is genuinely the better buy and we will not pretend otherwise.

Free waiting on an airport pickup is 90 minutes counted from actual landing, not from the time written on your booking, so a slow immigration queue does not eat into anything you paid for. Flight tracking adjusts the pickup automatically for delays over 20 minutes and you do not need to tell us. Beyond 90 minutes the overtime rate is ¥6,000 per hour for an Alphard and ¥8,000 for a HiAce, billed in 15-minute blocks with under 15 minutes not charged, and the driver does not leave: if you ask him to keep waiting he keeps waiting, and we reassign his later jobs.

The midday and afternoon arrivals

Manila and Cebu behave differently from the rest of the region. The sector is four to five hours, short enough for a normal daytime departure, so 5J5054 is in at 12:25, PR428 at 13:00, PR422 at Haneda at 13:35, PR434 at 14:10 and the ANA and JAL Manila rotations through the afternoon. VN384 from Hanoi joins them at Haneda at 15:05, and it is the flight we meet more often than any other from this region.

This is the easiest arrival window in the whole guide. You clear the airport between 14:00 and 17:00, reach the hotel at or just after check-in, and get a normal evening. The one thing worth planning is traffic: a 15:05 Haneda landing means the run into central Tokyo overlaps the start of the evening peak, and the 40-minute drive can stretch to an hour. The fixed price does not move for that, which is the whole point of a fixed price; a meter would.

For four adults with four cases, the Alphard at ¥24,000 from Narita is ¥6,000 each, against ¥3,140 each on the Narita Express plus a taxi from the station with the bags. From Haneda the Alphard at ¥16,000 is ¥4,000 each and the comparison stops being interesting.

The evening and late-night arrivals

MH70 is in at 18:05, PR432 at 20:20, NH870 at Haneda at 20:00, NH886 at 22:15, D7522 at 22:35, PR424 at 00:45 and VJ820 at 01:00. The low-cost carriers sit at the late end of that list because a late slot is a cheap slot, and the saving on the airfare is real. What people underestimate is what happens at the other end.

At Narita the trains stop early. The last Narita Express leaves around 21:44 and the last Keisei Skyliner around 22:30, with Keisei Access Express and local services running to roughly 23:00. A single published figure for the last train from Narita will mislead you, because it depends entirely on which line you take, so check the last departure for your own date and terminal. PR432 landing at 20:20 can make the last Narita Express only if immigration is quick and you move fast with the bags.

At Haneda the trains run later but not forever. The Tokyo Monorail stops around midnight and the Keikyu line runs to roughly 00:30. D7522 at 22:35 is inside that window on paper. PR424 at 00:45 and VJ820 at 01:00 are not, and the airport at that hour offers a metered taxi or a wait for the first train.

A metered taxi from Narita to central Tokyo runs ¥20,000 to ¥30,000, and between 22:00 and 05:00 a 20 per cent surcharge applies on top. RydAgent's fixed price does not change with the clock: ¥24,000 by Alphard or ¥30,000 by HiAce from Narita, ¥16,000 or ¥20,000 from Haneda, at 00:45 exactly as at midday. There is no night premium and no rush fee. For a late arrival the fixed price is usually cheaper than the meter rather than dearer, which surprises people who assume a pre-booked car is the luxury option.

One booking rule matters here. Airport pickups can be booked online until 20:00 Japan time the day before pickup, with no surcharge for booking close in. Addresses more than 50 km from our nearest base, the Hakone and Fuji end of the map, also need 24 hours. Once it is past 20:00 in Japan, the website starts from the day after tomorrow; for anything sooner, message WhatsApp or call +81 70-8830-8866 and we'll check whether a car can be arranged.

Five to nine people, which is where Japan runs out of vehicles

Of our Southeast Asian bookings that record a passenger count, 127 of 477 are groups of 5 to 9. That is more than a quarter, and it is the single strongest reason this region ends up in a private car rather than on a train.

At that size Japan quietly has no alternative. The largest product Uber names for Japan is UberXL at up to 6 passengers. A nine-seat jumbo taxi exists but has to be reserved in advance and runs only in certain hours, and airport ranks rarely hold one. So a group of eight arriving on a flight is a two-vehicle problem for everyone except a van for up to 9 passengers booked ahead: two taxis, two fares, two arrival times at the hotel, and the grandparents in a different car from the grandchildren.

The Toyota HiAce Grand Cabin takes 9 passengers, 9 large suitcases and 9 cabin bags in one vehicle. Fixed at ¥30,000 from Narita and ¥20,000 from Haneda to the Tokyo 23 wards, that is ¥3,750 and ¥2,500 per person for a group of eight. Two Alphards would be ¥48,000 and ¥32,000 for the same eight people.

Three honest limits. Nine is the ceiling: there is no 13-seat minibus and no luggage trailer, so ten or more people is two HiAces and above roughly twenty a chartered coach through a bus operator is the better product. Every fitted child seat occupies one of the nine positions, so eight passengers with two toddler seats are using all nine. And oversized items are the real constraint rather than case count, because a golf travel cover or a boxed bicycle takes the length of the luggage bay; send the count and rough dimensions at booking and we will tell you yes or suggest a second vehicle.

Prayer stops, halal food and other route requests

A lot of what is written for Muslim travellers in Japan promises more than any transfer operator can deliver, so here is the boundary drawn precisely.

What we do. Route requests are a normal part of a booking, and a stop is booked according to how long it takes. One short stop on a transfer, such as a mosque or prayer room on the way in from the airport for under 30 minutes, is added as Driver assistance when you book, ¥3,000 for an Alphard and ¥4,000 for a HiAce, with the stop written in the notes. A restaurant you have chosen for the first meal after a red-eye, any stop of 30 minutes or more, or two or more stops make it an hourly charter, below. On drives of more than two hours, restroom breaks at expressway service areas are free and do not count as a stop. Tell us at booking rather than on the day, because the driver may have a later job and cannot always absorb an unplanned hour.

What we do not do. We do not certify restaurants, we do not maintain a vetted halal list, and we will not tell you a kitchen is compliant on our own authority. Certification is a matter between a restaurant and its certifying body, and a transfer company asserting it is exactly the kind of claim that gets a family served something they did not want to eat. You choose the venue; we get you there. The same applies to prayer facilities: Tokyo Camii in Yoyogi Uehara is the largest mosque in Japan and the one most visitors head for; access, opening hours and parking are set by the mosque itself, so check those with the facility, and we'll take you to the door.

For a whole day built around fixed prayer times and specific meals, an hourly charter is usually a better fit than a chain of point-to-point transfers, because the vehicle stays with you and the stops are not individually priced. Tokyo charter is ¥7,000 per hour for an Alphard and ¥8,000 for a HiAce for a day that stays inside Tokyo Metropolis, ¥8,000 and ¥9,000 if the pickup, any stop or the drop-off is outside it, minimum eight hours, tolls, parking and fuel included. Note that the Tokyo Disney Resort is in Urayasu, which is Chiba and therefore outside, so a Disney day is priced at the outside rate.

Language, said plainly

The booking site works in English, Japanese, Chinese and Korean; support is in English, Japanese and Chinese. You can reach us on WhatsApp, by email or by phone, and an AI or a real person answers immediately at any hour. Those three are the languages we can actually staff around the clock, and we would rather name them than advertise a language that turns out to be unavailable at three in the morning when a flight has moved.

In practice most travellers from this region book and message us in English and it goes fine. If you would rather write in Chinese or Japanese, do; if your family is more comfortable in a language we have not listed, write to us in English or Chinese and we will handle the operational side from there.

The driver is a separate question from the office. Most drivers have basic English and use translation apps, and the driver network is majority Chinese-speaking, so most rides can be conducted directly in Chinese; ask in the notes and a Chinese-speaking driver is arranged free. A driver with fluent English can be requested for 20 per cent of the car fare, subject to availability and refunded in full if we cannot arrange one. For an airport pickup you rarely need it: the driver is standing in arrivals holding a name board with your name on it, the destination is already in the booking, and the conversation that remains is about the boot.

What the price includes, and the few things it does not

Your price is all-inclusive: tolls, parking, fuel, taxes, and meet and greet with a name board on airport pickups. Free waiting is included, 90 minutes from actual landing on airport pickups and 30 minutes on other transfers. Tipping is never expected and never required. The only extras are ones you choose.

• Child seats: infant, child or booster, ¥2,000 each, requested at booking and fitted before the driver leaves. Japanese law does not require hire vehicles to provide or use them, which is why taxis here do not carry them.
• Name board: included on every airport pickup, not on drop-offs. For a drop-off or a point-to-point ride, we usually message you as soon as your driver arrives, and you can message them from your booking page. If anything goes wrong, a real person on our team steps in quickly.
• Overtime waiting: ¥6,000 per hour for an Alphard, ¥8,000 for a HiAce, in 15-minute blocks with under 15 minutes not charged. Settle it in cash with the driver, by card link on the spot, or by link once you are settled at the hotel, whichever you prefer.
• Reserve now, pay later: for bookings more than 48 hours ahead, your card is saved and verified but not charged today, and the full amount is taken automatically 48 hours before the trip. You can still cancel free until 24 hours before, and an already-charged booking is refunded in full.
• Cancellation: free with a full refund more than 24 hours before the trip; inside 24 hours there is no refund. Refunds go back to the original payment method and clear within two weeks.
• If the airline cancels or reschedules your flight: you choose, free re-booking onto the new flight or a full refund, and that applies even inside 24 hours. Send us the airline's notice or your new flight details.
• If the driver does not turn up: driver no-show, full refund, your taxi on us, plus ¥10,000. We contact you; there is nothing to claim.
• Payment: card, Apple Pay or Google Pay through Stripe on the website.

Going home: the departure side

166 of our Southeast Asian bookings are drop-offs, and the departure bank out of Tokyo is compressed into the late morning and early afternoon. Verified September 2026 departures: PR431 leaves Narita at 09:15 for Manila, VN307 at 09:30 for Ho Chi Minh City, MH89 at 10:05 for Kuala Lumpur, GA881 at 11:00 for Denpasar, GA875 leaves Haneda at 11:45 for Jakarta, 5J5055 leaves Narita at 13:45 and PR427 at 14:25 for Manila, PR421 leaves Haneda at 14:55 for Manila, and VN385 leaves Haneda at 16:35 for Hanoi.

Two things change on the way out. There is no name board on a drop-off, because the driver is coming to you; we usually message you as soon as he arrives, and you can message him from your booking page. And free waiting is 30 minutes rather than 90, counted from the pickup time you set, because there is no flight to track on this side. We recommend leaving central Tokyo three hours before an international departure, which for a 10:05 Narita flight means a pickup around 06:00, and we do not take responsibility for a missed flight caused by a departure time set too late.

Prices are the same in both directions: ¥24,000 by Alphard or ¥30,000 by HiAce from the Tokyo 23 wards to Narita, ¥16,000 or ¥20,000 to Haneda.

Price summary

Route	Alphard (4 pax, 4 cases)	HiAce (9 pax, 9 cases)	Typical flights
Narita to Tokyo 23 wards	¥24,000	¥30,000	MH88, VN310, VN306, 5J5054, PR428, MH70, PR432
Haneda to Tokyo 23 wards	¥16,000	¥20,000	GA874, PR422, VN384, D7522, PR424
Narita to Tokyo Disney Resort hotels	¥24,000	¥28,000	Any Narita arrival
Haneda to Tokyo Disney Resort hotels	¥16,000	¥20,000	Any Haneda arrival
Narita to Yokohama	¥33,000	¥33,000	Any Narita arrival
Haneda to Yokohama	¥17,000	¥21,000	Any Haneda arrival
Haneda to Hakone	¥46,000	¥59,000	Book 24 hours ahead
Narita to Hakone	¥59,000	¥72,000	Book 24 hours ahead
Kansai to Osaka city	¥19,000	¥24,000	MH52
Kansai to Kyoto	¥30,000	¥34,000	MH52
Tokyo hourly charter, whole day inside Tokyo Metropolis	¥7,000 per hour	¥8,000 per hour	Minimum 8 hours
Tokyo hourly charter, pickup, any stop or drop-off outside Tokyo	¥8,000 per hour	¥9,000 per hour	Includes Disney and Urayasu, Narita Airport, Hakone and Fuji days

Prices are per vehicle, not per person, and include tolls, parking, fuel and taxes. Child seats are ¥2,000 each. There is no night, holiday or peak-season surcharge on any of the above.

The flights we meet most often

Our own records, Southeast Asian carriers, to date. This is not a ranking of the airlines; it is a ranking of where our drivers have actually stood.

• VN384, Hanoi to Haneda, 48 bookings
• PR422, Manila to Haneda, 45
• MH70, Kuala Lumpur to Narita, 38
• PR428, Manila to Narita, 36
• MH88, Kuala Lumpur to Narita, 29
• D7522, Kuala Lumpur to Haneda, 29
• VN306, Ho Chi Minh City to Narita, 27
• 5J5054, Manila to Narita, 24
• GA874, Jakarta to Haneda, 21
• PR424 and PR432, Manila to Haneda and Narita, 20 each

By carrier: Philippine Airlines 183, Vietnam Airlines 116, Malaysia Airlines 103, Cebu Pacific 83, Garuda 65, AirAsia X 35, VietJet 10.

Who is behind this

RydAgent.com is operated by PLENS Inc. (Tokyo). Airport transfers run through a six-company partner network of Japanese green-plate licensed operators, all drivers holding the Japanese Type 2 commercial passenger licence; Kansai legs are handled by our Osaka partner 株式会社立的, Japanese corporate number 6120001271333. We are a GetYourGuide Approved Supplier (supplier ID 514471) and listed on Viator and KKday, and our Google Business Profile rating is 5.0 from 81 reviews. We do not own vehicles ourselves; we book, price, track and coordinate them, which is why the price is fixed in advance and why the same team answers whether your flight is early, late or cancelled.

Related guides

• The HiAce for groups of 9: capacity, luggage limits and what happens at ten or more people
• The largest private vehicle available in Japan: why the nine-passenger ceiling exists
• Late-night arrivals at Narita and Haneda: last trains, taxi ranks and what is open
• Are car seats required in Japan?: the legal position and how to request a seat
• English-speaking drivers in Japan: what the standard driver can do and when the paid upgrade is worth it
• Hong Kong to Japan by flight: the Cathay Pacific arrival pattern
• Thailand to Japan by flight: Thai Airways and the Bangkok arrival pattern
• Tokyo Disney Resort hotels transfer: Maihama hotel handover and child-seat setup

Direct route pages

• Narita Airport to Tokyo: ¥24,000 Alphard, ¥30,000 HiAce
• Haneda Airport to Tokyo: ¥16,000 Alphard, ¥20,000 HiAce
• Narita Airport to the Tokyo Disney Resort area: ¥24,000 Alphard, ¥28,000 HiAce
• Haneda Airport to the Tokyo Disney Resort area: ¥16,000 Alphard, ¥20,000 HiAce
• Kansai Airport to Kyoto: ¥30,000 Alphard, ¥34,000 HiAce