Flights from Tokyo: Best Side of Plane

Tokyo Narita Airport sits on the Chiba plain, about 60 kilometres northeast of central Tokyo. On a clear day departures heading south or west offer a brief but iconic view — Mt Fuji appears to the southwest, its perfect conical silhouette unmistakable even at cruise altitude when the weather cooperates. The Seoul route crosses the Korean Strait — a narrow sea channel flanked by the Japanese and Korean coastlines — and on the clearer side you can trace the Kyushu and Tsushima islands below before the Korean peninsula's southern coast comes into view. At just over an hour, every minute of this flight has something to look at. The Los Angeles trans-Pacific route is a 10-hour arc that swings north over the Kurils and the Aleutian chain before descending toward the Californian coast — the Alaskan coastline and glacier fields are visible on a clear day on the correct side. Both routes reward a specific window seat.

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