Photo: Beijing Olympic flame arrives in Tokyo

Li Binghua,executive vice president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG), poses with the lantern which holds the Olympic flame at Tokyo's Haneda Airport early Friday morning April 25, 2008. (Photo credit: Xinhua)

People wait at Tokyo's Haneda Airport to meet the sacred flame early Friday morning April 25, 2008. (Photo credit: Xinhua)

TOKYO, April 25 (Xinhua) -- The chartered plane carrying the Beijing Olympic sacred flame landed at Tokyo's Haneda Airport 6:05 a.m. local time Friday morning from Canberra for its 16th leg of torch relay scheduled for Saturday in the central Japanese city of Nagano.

The flame was carried off the plane in a lantern at 6:10 a.m. local time by Li Binghua, vice president of the Beijing Organizing Committee of Olympic Games (BOCOG).

The Beijing Olympic Flame Delegation, headed by Li, received warm welcome on the parking apron by about 100 people.