New All Nippon Airways Lounges At Haneda Airport (Including A Foot Bath?!)

Actually, it probably IS a whirlpool-like tub you soak your feet in. I've used a similar thing in Japan before, except it was outside and ran the length of the boardwalk.

That FC lounge is huge given *A doesn’t let top flyers in unlike OW. Is ANA opening it up to some of their frequent fliers? I can’t imagine there are even 200 FC seats in a day (25 flights) out of HND given recent industry trends.

Are the operating hours for the Arrivals Lounge accurate? Or will it be 4:30am-12:30am? Most flights originating in the US on ANA arrive later in the day.

The foot bath isn't about getting your feet clean, but rather about relaxing and easing stress from being on your feet. Like in Japanese onsen, you don't get clean by taking the bath- in onsen you clean yourself first BEFORE getting into the bath. These public foot baths are reasonably common tourist features in hot spring towns.

There is one in the public area of Kagoshima Airport. It is very common in onsen towns in Japan and part of onsen culture. Japanese people will not be surprised it is a very common thing and non unusual.

The first image of the Business Lounge Haneda reminds me of the Ikea food court

@ Chad G. I'm booked on a SFO-HND redeye that lands at 0440.

@Chad G like Chuck’s flight, ANA’s LAX-HND flight also arrives just short of 5am into HND.

@flyingrohit @Chuck Sullivan - correct but IAD, IAH, JFK, ORD, SEA, second LAX flight all land in the afternoon or evening. I'm evening seeing one FRA flight and the LHR flight landing later in the day. Not a major issue and I'm (selfishly) only inquiring because I'm booked on the IAH flight which lands at 17:00.

I think it's normal for Arrivals lounges just to be open in the morning. Arrivals lounges in Europe for example are meant for showering and freshening up, for people who come off red-eye flights and have a full day ahead of them. If you arrive in the afternoon you most likely don't have a full day of meetings ahead of you so you could just go to your hotel instead of an arrivals lounge.

There’s a Shinkansen train that runs between Yamagata and Sendai which has a carriage with footbaths. I’ve been on it it’s a lot of fun. (Tatami style seating in other carriages too)

As others have said it’s such a japanese thing, you find them all over japan, a traditional amenity provided for weary travellers. As well a son this Shinkansen I’ve seen them by the roadside, in temples, in train stations, along hiking trails all over. Many have a souvenir towel you can purchase for a few hundred yen, I hope there’s an ANA towel, I already have a few of these and I guess it’s starting to become a collection.

Maybe they'll have those little fish that eat the dead skin off your toes!!

@Chad G. - I've often seen that arrival lounges are open only in the morning hours for those who are likely going to be continuing on their day after their flight. There is less of a need for these in the evening hours (from an airlines point of view).

Never experienced a foot bath in my one trip to Japan (one trip so far). But here in New Mexico, outside Santa Fe, there is a Japanese bath and massage place called Ten Thousand Waves. They have a foot bath outside running along a lengthy bench. Hot, clean water, no whirlpool, but boy does it feel good. As you sit there, especially on a crisp, cool day, you look at the Koi pond and relax.

Now is it me, or the mock up for a lounge in Tokyo is awfully full of Caucasians and very little Asian (and one missing?). That is not all, they conveniently (stereotype) give every Asians a Rimowa looking bag.

For getting wet in airports, there is nothing that can top the PUJ pool. I have to bring a float on my next trip there.

Is this for the growing population of Muslims in Japan?

My last visits to ANA's lounges last month: Narita - two hour layover but no showers avialable. Walked way out to United's lounge and was immediately accommodated. Haneda - no food other than cheese & crackers due to the China Virus.

It's funny how the models in the publicity images have the exact opposite appearance of the typical guests I run into whenever at the ANA lounges 😉

I'll be flying out of Haneda at the end of March (in just a few days) on a domestic flight, so I'll be able to check out the new business class lounge. When I visited the previous ANA Lounge (not first class) at Haneda in January, it offered a nice selection of four regional sakes dispensed from ceramic containers. A couple of them were really good. I tried them all and still made it home.

As others have commented here, the onsen foot bath is a common public outdoor fixture at onsen towns all over Japan, except the one at Haneda probably won't have natural spring water, just heated tap water since there is probably no hot spring source at the airport.