ANA business class from London: is THE Room on your flight to Tokyo?

ANA flies a single daily nonstop between London Heathrow and Tokyo Haneda (HND), NH212 out and NH211 back. If Tokyo is where you are going, there is no hub to judge and no second flight to worry about: you are buying one long sector, and the only real question is which cabin that sector carries.

The London flight leaves Heathrow in the evening and lands at Haneda the following afternoon or early evening, local time, after roughly 14 hours in the air. That shape suits a traveller who wants to work a full day in London, board, sleep, and reach a Tokyo hotel in time for dinner. It suits a same-day onward connection less well if your next flight leaves Haneda in the morning, because there is none on the day you land.

ANA is the only one of the three nonstop carriers on this route that is Japanese and in Star Alliance. That matters more for your miles and your onward options in Japan than it does for the London sector itself, which you can also fly nonstop with Japan Airlines or British Airways.

For city-level detail, Haneda versus Narita, and current fares, read our business class flights to Tokyo guide. What follows is about ANA and its cabins.

ANA flies the Boeing 777-300ER in two layouts, and both have been used on long-haul routes out of Tokyo. Both are listed by ANA as 212-seat aircraft, which is exactly why "a 777 with 212 seats" tells you nothing on its own.

The honest summary: missing THE Room costs you the door and some privacy, not the flat bed or the aisle access. The older staggered seat is still a perfectly good way to sleep for 14 hours. It is just not the seat in the photographs, and you should not pay a THE Room price expecting it.

One practical point about THE Room itself: half the seats face backwards. Some travellers do not notice, some prefer it, and a few dislike it. If that matters to you, tell us and we will steer your seat selection accordingly.

Looking further out, ANA says it takes delivery of new Boeing 787-9s with a newer business seat, THE Room FX, from November 2026, with routes still to be announced. Nothing has been confirmed for London, so we do not sell it as a London product.

ANA sells First Class from London. Both 777-300ER layouts carry eight First Class seats, in a small cabin of their own at the very front of the aircraft.

On the refitted aircraft the First Class seat is THE Suite: a self-contained seat with a door, laid out one, two, one, so the two window seats in each set are entirely on their own and the centre pair can open up to each other with a movable partition. With only eight seats, the cabin is quieter and the service more personal than any business cabin can manage.

Whether First is worth it over THE Room is a genuinely close call on this route. THE Room already gives you a door and aisle access, so the step up buys space, privacy, the First Class lounge at Heathrow and the ANA SUITE LOUNGE at Haneda, rather than a fundamentally different way to sleep. On a business trip where you need to arrive fresh, or on a once-in-a-decade trip to Japan, the difference can justify itself. On a routine trip, business in THE Room is usually the smarter buy.

The same aircraft rule applies: THE Suite is on the refitted 777-300ER. If your date is on the older layout, the First Class seat is ANA's earlier design, and you should know that before you commit.

ANA flies one London rotation a day, which makes checking easier than on a route with several daily departures. It does not make it automatic, because the aircraft on that one rotation can change with the season.

1. Count the business seats on the seat map. ANA's own seat map shows the difference plainly: the new 777-300ER layout has 64 business seats, the older one has 68. The total of 212 seats is identical on both, so ignore it.
2. Check the season you are flying in. ANA scheduled THE Room on every London flight for summer 2026, which ran to late October. For the winter, ANA has said it will adjust aircraft on European routes by season. Published schedules still show a 777-300ER on London, but not which layout, so a winter date needs checking closer to booking.
3. Look at the seat map again nearer departure. Airlines swap aircraft for maintenance and disruption. Nobody can promise a particular aircraft months ahead. What we can do is tell you what is scheduled and re-check it before you fly.
4. Check each flight separately. If your trip carries on beyond Tokyo, the onward flight is a different aircraft with a different seat, and THE Room does not come with it.

If a seller tells you "ANA business is THE Room" without checking your date, they are quoting a brochure. Ask for the seat map for your flight. If it shows 64 business seats, you have THE Room. If it shows 68, you do not.

Heathrow is ANA's only UK airport, and the London flight is its only UK service. ANA does not fly from Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh or Glasgow, so everybody outside London has to solve the journey to Heathrow first.

The evening departure helps. You can reach Heathrow from most of the UK on the day you fly, without an overnight hotel. The realistic options are:

• Make your own way to Heathrow by rail or road. Simple and flexible, but a late train is your problem, not ANA's. Build in a generous margin.
• Add a UK or European connecting flight on the same ticket. If the first flight is late, the airline that sold the ticket has to get you to Tokyo. Ask us which through-fares actually price on your dates.
• Start from a European city ANA serves from Haneda. ANA flies to Frankfurt, Munich and Paris as well as London. If a Star Alliance airline flies from your local airport to one of those, a one-stop routing onto ANA can beat the trip to Heathrow for total time.
• Fly a different airline. If your local airport has a one-stop service through a Gulf or Asian hub, that may put you in Tokyo with less hassle. We will say so when it does.

At Heathrow, ANA uses Terminal 2, the Star Alliance terminal, which is where its partner lounges are.

At Heathrow, ANA has no lounge of its own. It uses partner lounges in Terminal 2. ANA lists the United Club and the Singapore Airlines SilverKris Business Class Lounge for business class passengers, and the SilverKris First Class Lounge for First Class. Lounge arrangements change, so we treat these as the current expectation rather than a promise.

At Haneda, ANA is at home. ANA runs two departure lounges at both Terminal 2 and Terminal 3: the ANA LOUNGE for business class passengers and the ANA SUITE LOUNGE for First Class passengers and top-tier members. That matters on the way home, when the lounge before your London flight is ANA's own rather than a contracted one.

After a 14-hour flight, a shower on arrival would be welcome. ANA does have an arrivals lounge at Haneda for business and First Class passengers, but it was listed as temporarily closed when we checked. Do not plan your first afternoon in Tokyo around it.

Going on to Osaka

ANA sells London to Osaka through Haneda on one ticket, with the domestic sector flown by ANA. Haneda handles ANA's international and domestic flights, and ANA quotes a 55-minute minimum connection between domestic and international flights within Terminal 2, against longer when you have to change terminals. Check which terminal your London flight uses, because ANA flies international services from both.

Two things to know. First, the domestic flight is sold in ANA's Premium Class, its domestic front cabin, which gives you a roomier seat and a meal, not a flat bed with a door. On a short domestic hop, that is the right product. Second, because the London flight lands late in the day, it is worth asking whether an early-evening Osaka connection or a night in Tokyo gives you the better arrival. For the city and its airports, read our business class flights to Osaka guide.

ANA is a Star Alliance member, and its own scheme is ANA Mileage Club. For a UK traveller that means you do not have to join ANA's scheme to get value from an ANA flight.

If you already collect with a Star Alliance airline, such as Lufthansa's Miles & More, United MileagePlus or Singapore Airlines' KrisFlyer, you can usually credit an ANA flight there. How much you earn depends on the fare you buy and on that programme's own table, so check before you assume a paid business fare earns in full.

The UK twist is Virgin Atlantic Flying Club. Although Virgin is in SkyTeam, ANA is a Flying Club partner for both earning and spending Virgin Points. That makes ANA one of the few ways a UK Virgin Points balance can reach Japan in a flat bed. Be realistic about it:

• Reward seats in business and First on the London flight are scarce, and ANA releases seats to its own members before Virgin can book them.
• ANA rewards through Virgin have to be booked by phone.
• Taxes and carrier charges on premium-cabin rewards are substantial, so a reward seat is not free.

If you pay for your ticket with us, none of that applies: you choose where to credit the flight when you give us your membership number.

From London to Tokyo, three airlines fly nonstop: ANA, Japan Airlines and British Airways. Everything else means a change of plane somewhere in between. Here is how they split on the questions that decide the booking.

ANA's strengths are a business seat with a door and a genuine First Class cabin on a nonstop, plus Star Alliance and Virgin Points options that the two oneworld carriers do not offer. Its weaknesses are one flight a day, so there is no alternative departure if the timing does not suit you, and the same product-by-date lottery that every carrier here has. If you want an Avios-earning trip or a morning departure, Japan Airlines or British Airways will usually suit you better, and we will say so.

There is no single ANA business class price from London. The fare depends on your dates, whether Tokyo is the end of the trip, how far ahead you book, and which fare buckets are still open on the one daily flight.

The things that genuinely move the number:

• Season in Japan. Cherry-blossom season in spring, autumn colours and the Japanese holiday periods fill premium cabins early. Travelling either side of a peak often makes a real difference.
• One flight a day. With a single ANA departure, there is no cheaper second flight on the same day to move to. Flexibility has to come from the date, not the time.
• Where you end up. Tokyo and Osaka, or Tokyo and somewhere beyond Japan, price differently from a simple London–Tokyo return.
• Open-jaw trips. Flying into Tokyo and home from Osaka, or the other way round, can suit a Japan itinerary well. Ask us to price it rather than two one-way tickets.
• Booking window. Premium cabins on this route do not reliably get cheaper close to departure. Waiting for a late drop in price usually fails.

We do not advertise a price we cannot book or claim a fixed discount against ANA's own website. The fare we quote is one we can ticket for your dates. Bookings we ticket are ATOL protected where the scheme applies (ATOL Protected).