Tokyo takes a week. Fuji is the day you book first.
Which Fuji bus tour still runs when the Fifth Station road is shut. What a Shinjuku food crawl costs by the fourth counter. Whether Nikko or Kamakura is the better single day out. Reviews of every tour you can book in Tokyo.
A mountain, a food crawl, a sumo hall and a room full of water.
The four bookings a first Tokyo week is built around. What each one costs, and what the people who took it say.
01The day everyone booksMt Fuji and Hakone 1-Day Bus Tour Return by Bullet TrainFuji Fifth Station and the Hakone ropeway in one run, home on the bullet train before dark.
02The evening to plan aroundShinjuku Food Tour (13 Dishes at 4 Local Eateries)Thirteen dishes across four Shinjuku counters, ordered by someone who knows which door to open.
03Sport, then supperSumo Show Experience with Chicken Hot Pot and a PhotoA sumo bout up close, then the chanko hot pot the stables actually live on.
04The one for a wet dayteamLab Planets TOKYO Digital Art Museum Entry TicketBarefoot through knee-deep water and mirrored light at teamLab Planets. The slots go weeks ahead.
Fuji, Hakone, Nikko or Kamakura. One free day, four answers.
All four leave Tokyo after breakfast and have you back for dinner. What separates them is the train, the weather and how much of the day you spend moving.
★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · Mt Fuji and Hakone 1-Day Bus Tour Return by Bullet Train
The Fuji runFifth Station when the road is open, Kawaguchiko when it is not.
The Hakone loopA boat across Lake Ashi, a ropeway over the sulphur vents.
The Nikko dayGold leaf under cedars, then the drop at Kegon Falls.
The Kamakura lineThe Great Buddha, temple gardens, a tram to the beach.
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Asakusa, Shibuya, Tsukiji, Fuji, Hakone, Kamakura: the week almost everybody does first.
Asakusa
TsukijiThe Tokyo days out more travellers book than anything else.
The full Tokyo list →A coach to the mountain, a crawl through Shinjuku, a go-kart lap of the bay. What earns each of them the slot.
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Mt Fuji and Hakone 1-Day Bus Tour Return by Bullet Train
See Mt. Fuji, Hakone, Lake Ashi, and the ropeway in one busy day, with lunch, an English guide, and a bullet train return to Tokyo.
From · $163
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1-Day Tokyo Bus Tour
from $129
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TOKYO SKYTREE® Admission ticket
from $13
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teamLab Planets TOKYO Digital Art Museum Entry Ticket
from $25
5
Mt Fuji & Hakone Cruise, Drum Show Bullet Train 1 Day from Tokyo
from $149
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Sumo Show Experience with Chicken Hot Pot and a Photo
from $103
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Shinjuku Food Tour (13 Dishes at 4 Local Eateries)
from $86
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Tokyo Mt Fuji 5th St & Hakone Cruise Bus Tour w/Bullet Train
from $154
Asakusa before nine, Tsukiji by ten, Shibuya after dark.
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The city is a set of neighbourhoods running on their own clocks. Take the temple early, eat the market before the stalls pack up, and keep the crossing and the standing bars for the evening.
- 1Mt Fuji and Hakone 1-Day Bus Tour Return by Bullet Trainfrom $163
- 21-Day Tokyo Bus Tourfrom $129
- 3TOKYO SKYTREE® Admission ticketfrom $13
Sensoji before the coaches
Nakamise is a wall of shoulders by ten and almost empty at eight. Walk the arcade, the incense cauldron and the pagoda first, then eat your way back down it.
Tsukiji outer market, eaten properly
The wholesale trade moved to Toyosu; the good eating stayed at Tsukiji. Tamagoyaki on a stick, uni straight off the tray, and a knife shop that sharpens what you buy.
Shibuya, and the lanes behind it
The crossing is four minutes of your life. The alleys off it are the rest of the evening: six-seat bars in Nonbei Yokocho, the record shops, the deck above the Scramble.
Tokyo eats standing up, at a counter, at half past eleven at night.
Thirteen dishes across four Shinjuku counters, a Tsukiji breakfast that opens with tamagoyaki, a ramen class that ends in a bowl you built yourself. Book the eating before the sightseeing.
Tokyo first, then whatever the trains reach in ninety minutes.
A capital of twenty-three wards, a volcano two hours west, a lake with a pirate boat on it, a shrine buried in cedars, a bronze Buddha by the beach and a harbour city that fills with tuned cars on a Saturday night.
Tokyo does not really get going until the second-to-last train.
Six-seat bars in the lanes behind Shibuya, an all-you-can-drink run through the Shinjuku basements, a service area in Yokohama Bay that fills with tuned cars at midnight. The city keeps a different set of hours after eight.
What a day in Tokyo actually costs.
Every tour on the site, grouped by price. Tokyo is dearer than the rest of Japan and cheaper than most people expect: plenty of the best days land under the price of a Ginza lunch.
Temple walks, market breakfasts, observation decks, matcha classes and the tickets that skip a queue.
The full-day standards: Fuji and Hakone by coach, sumo with dinner, sushi classes, street karts and the Shinjuku food crawls.
A licensed guide with a car for the day, bullet-train day trips, and the one splurge a Tokyo week can carry.
Three things this city does that nowhere else does.
Every capital has temples and a food scene. A wrestler eating from the pot he trains on, a motorway car park that fills with tuned Skylines at midnight, and a go-kart in the outside lane of a public road do not travel.
Sumo, watched up close
Six tournaments a year and only three of them in Tokyo, so most visitors meet the sport at a show instead: retired wrestlers, a proper clay dohyo, and chanko-nabe served afterwards. The hot pot is not a souvenir gimmick. It is what the stables eat twice a day, and the reason the wrestlers are the shape they are.
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Daikoku Futo
A motorway service area on reclaimed land in Yokohama Bay fills after eleven with Skylines, RX-7s and things built in a lock-up over ten years. Nobody organises it, it scatters when a patrol car comes through the tunnel, and it has been the centre of Japanese car culture for thirty years.
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- 3Daikoku JDM Car Meet & Night Car Culture Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 626 reviews
Street karts
Costumed karts running public roads past the Skytree and around Tokyo Bay — legal, insured, and requiring an International Driving Permit arranged in your own country before you fly. No permit, no kart. The desk has heard every version of the story and still says no.
- 1Flagship 2-Hours Official Street Go-Kart Tour – Tokyo Bay Shop★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 4,974 reviews
- 2Official Street Go-Kart in Shibuya★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 3,435 reviews
- 3Official Street Go-Kart Tour – Akihabara★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,578 reviews
Four Tokyo bookings that will not wait.
Most of this city can be decided over breakfast. These four run on permits, timed slots and tournament calendars that take no notice of when your flight lands.
- 01Flagship 2-Hours Official Street Go-Kart Tour – Tokyo Bay ShopStreet karts need an International Driving Permit issued in your own country. It cannot be bought in Japan, and without it the desk turns you away.
- 02teamLab Planets TOKYO Digital Art Museum Entry TicketEntry runs on timed slots and the good hours go weeks ahead. You also wade through knee-deep water, so wear something that rolls up.
- 03Sumo Show Experience with Chicken Hot Pot and a PhotoReal tournaments only sit in January, May and September. The shows that run between them fill the same evenings everybody else is free.
- 04DisneySea 1-Day PassportPark passes are dated and sell out for weekends and school holidays long before the gate opens.
Fuji is out of sight most summer days. Plan the wet ones as well.
The mountain shows itself on cold clear mornings between November and February and vanishes into haze for most of July and August. June brings five weeks of tsuyu rain, September brings typhoons. Tokyo answers all of it indoors: a knife in your hand, a tasting room, a market hall, a theatre.
By place — the wards and the belt around them
By kind of day — temple, counter, deck or track
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