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Every piece on the journal carrying the nrt tag, most recent first.
We flew four carriers on the New York to Tokyo corridor in nine months. The 2026 review of ANA, JAL, Delta, and United on HND, NRT, JFK, and EWR, with the booking pattern and the airport math.
ANA's The Room is still the bar everything is measured against, but JAL's Sky Suite III and Korean Air's Prestige Suites 2.0 — both refreshed Apex variants — have closed the gap on hardware. This is the full carrier-by-carrier breakdown of New York to Tokyo in business class, with mileage redemption math, NRT vs HND practicalities, and JFK departure-terminal notes.
Japan Airlines' Tokyo Narita First Class Lounge remains the carrier's flagship ground product, anchored by the made-to-order itamae sushi bar, a sake program that runs deeper than most Tokyo restaurants, and a service philosophy — 'Inspiration of Japan' — that the rest of the oneworld alliance has spent fifteen years trying to imitate. This is the long-form review.