"I feel like I'm dreaming," said Chiho Kawabata, a dazed 14-year-old school girl, after seeing the football glamour boy.

The star-studded Spanish club, which includes Zinedine Zidane, Luis Figo, Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos and Raul, landed at Narita airport at around 4:00 pm (0700 GMT).

The centre of the frenzy was the team's most recent addition, Beckham, who enjoys the kind of frantic celebrity usually reserved for the most famous pop stars in Japan.

"He is so cute. I took many pictures," said triumphant 18-year-old high school girl Teruyo Izawa.

Beckham attained iconic status here during last summer's World Cup finals jointly hosted by Japan and South Korea.

Real Madrid will hold a press conference and a practice session later Sunday.

The team will spend three days in Japan during which they will play a friendly match with J-league side F.C. Tokyo on Tuesday.

Some 55,000 tickets for the game were sold out in one week in mid-June, even before Beckham signed on with the Spanish club.

"Real Madrid is a high quality team with a strong brand identity," said a spokesman for the game's organisers last week.

"Even though the game will be a pre-season event, it has attracted a lot of interest among Japanese football fans and the general public," he said.

Real Madrid is in an Asia-wide promotional tour, playing exhibition games in Kunming and Beijing in China, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Bangkok.

The Spanish club is expected to pull in some eight million euros (9.1 million dollars) from their jaunt through Asia.