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The Keisei Skyliner will see it make 15 trips a day from the airport in Chiba Prefecture to Tokyo s Ueno station with the front cars of each train reserved for such travelers, the company said. The cars are disinfected after each run, while adjacent cars are kept empty.
However, the government has suspended new entries into Japan by nonresident foreign nationals arriving from most of the world through the end of January.
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Kyodo Dec 28, 2020
Chiba – Travelers arriving from overseas amid the COVID-19 pandemic can now catch a train to downtown Tokyo from Narita Airport in train cars reserved specifically for them, on a major train line operated by Keisei Electric Railway Co.
Incoming visitors and returnees previously had to travel by cab or private car to comply with government requests to avoid public transportation, aimed at preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus.