Photo/Illutration A bedroom in a suite facing the mouth of the Tamagawa River offers a view of airplanes in Tokyo’s Ota Ward. (Go Takahashi)

A complex connected to Tokyo’s Haneda Airport that offers shopping, a hotel and a natural hot spring with a view of Mount Fuji is set to open on Dec. 21.

Haneda Airport Garden was initially scheduled to open in April 2020 immediately before the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. However, the opening was postponed due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

“We will make every effort to recover two years’ worth of lost opportunities,” said an executive of Sumitomo Realty and Development Co., which is developing and operating the facility, at a news conference on Oct. 6.

The 12-story complex will directly connect to the airport’s international terminal, or Terminal 3.

It includes a hotel with 1,717 rooms, one of the largest in Japan on an airport site, and a commercial facility containing about 90 stores, including souvenir shops and restaurants, as well as a hall with a capacity of around 1,000 people.

The top floor has an open-air bath from which users can enjoy a view of airplanes and Mount Fuji. Visitors can use the hot spring as a day visit.

The complex also has an express bus terminal from which passengers can travel to the Tokyo area and the Kansai, Hokuriku and Tohoku regions, making it easier for tourists to visit local regions.

The bus terminal and some stores will open in January next year.

Sumitomo Realty and Development initially expected the ratio of domestic to international customers would be about half and half, but the operator now expects domestic customers will be the main users for the time being.

The company decided to proceed with the opening at the end of the year, hoping for an increase in visitors to Japan after the government allowed individual foreign tourists in again and lifted most of its border restrictions starting Oct. 11.

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