Coach tours of the city
A Tokyo bus tour on this site is one of three coach days, priced from $40 to $120. The shortest is a four-hour afternoon on a hybrid bus with three stops: the Imperial Palace outer area, Senso-ji in Asakusa and the viewing deck of Tokyo Tower. The two full days run 9 to 10 hours and both visit Meiji Shrine and Tokyo Skytree; one includes lunch and Odaiba, the other a matcha tasting and a ferry ride. None of the three descriptions names a departure point, so read the meeting place on the listing before you pay.
Quick answer
The short answer. With only an afternoon, take the $40 Tokyo bus tour: four hours, the Imperial Palace outer area, Senso-ji and the Tokyo Tower deck. With a whole day and a wish to have lunch sorted, take the $82 day, 9 to 9.5 hours, which adds Meiji Shrine, Odaiba and Tokyo Skytree. The $120 day is the most reviewed of the three, 2,125 reviews at 4.7, and the only one with a ferry ride.
Stop by stop
Three coach days. The stops are what separate them, more than the price.
The afternoon, $40, four hours. The listing calls it three Tokyo highlights in one afternoon, on an eco-friendly hybrid bus. The stops are the Imperial Palace outer area, Asakusa Kannon Temple, which is Senso-ji, and the viewing deck of Tokyo Tower. It has 387 reviews at 4.5. It is the shortest option here and the only one that names a tower deck as part of the visit.
The full day with lunch, $82, 9 to 9.5 hours. An English-guided bus tour with lunch, and the longest list of stops of the three: Meiji Shrine, the Imperial Palace Outer Garden, Odaiba, Nakamise shopping street in Asakusa and Tokyo Skytree. It is also the least reviewed, 302 reviews at 4.6, so its score stands on a smaller base than the other two.
The full day with a ferry, $120, ten hours. Meiji Shrine, Asakusa and Tokyo Skytree, a matcha tasting, and a ferry ride through the city. With 2,125 reviews at 4.7 it is the most reviewed Tokyo bus tour on this site by a wide margin: the afternoon tour has 387 and the lunch day 302.
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Live prices, ratings and review counts. Each card goes to the operator's listing for dates and the meeting point.
★ 4.5 · 387 reviews
★ 4.6 · 302 reviews
★ 4.7 · 2,125 reviews
Pick by your day
One line each, all from the listings. Where two fit, the cheaper one is named first.
The $40 afternoon, four hours. The two other options take the whole day.
The same $40 afternoon is the only one here under that line. The full days start at $82.
The afternoon names the viewing deck of Tokyo Tower in its description. The full days name a Tokyo Skytree stop without saying whether the ticket up is included.
The $82 day is the only one of the three that names both, and it is the only one that goes to Odaiba.
The $120 day, the only listing with a ferry ride through the city, plus a matcha tasting.
The $120 day again: 2,125 reviews at 4.7, against 387 and 302 for the other two.
Every trip, current fare
Cost per hour is the fare divided by the listed length. The lunch day gives a range of 9 to 9.5 hours, so the table leaves that cell empty; it works out at $8.63 to $9.11 an hour.
| Tour | Length | Price | What you get | Cost per hour | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tokyo: Afternoon Bus Tour Imperial Palace, Asakusa, Tokyo Tower | 4 h | $40 | Imperial Palace, Senso-ji and Tokyo Tower deck | $10.00 | 4.5 · 387 |
| Tokyo: 1 Day Bus Tour with Meiji-Jingu, Odaiba, Lunch and Skytree | 9 - 9.5 h | $82 | Meiji Shrine, Odaiba, Skytree and lunch | — | 4.6 · 302 |
| Tokyo: Meiji Shrine, Asakusa, Skytree Bus Tour and Cruise | 10 h | $120 | Meiji Shrine, Asakusa, Skytree and a ferry | $12.00 | 4.7 · 2,125 |
Half day or full day
More hours for a little more money, or one afternoon and your evening back.
The arithmetic first. The $82 day costs $42 more than the $40 afternoon, which is about twice the fare, and it lasts more than twice as long. Per hour it is the cheaper of the two.
Then the overlap. Both visit the Imperial Palace outer area and Asakusa. What the full day adds is Meiji Shrine, Odaiba, Tokyo Skytree and lunch. What the afternoon has that the full day does not is the Tokyo Tower deck. So the honest question is whether you want those four additions more than you want your evening and the rest of the day to yourself.
The $120 day costs $38 more than the lunch day. For that you get the ferry ride, the matcha tasting and a listing with 2,125 reviews rather than 302. You give up Odaiba and the named lunch, and its description does not list the Imperial Palace.
If you are in the city for a day or two and want the main names ticked off without working out trains, a full-day Tokyo bus tour does that in one booking. If you have a week, the afternoon plus a few short walks covers the same ground at a lower total.
Want the same sights on foot instead? The guided walks at the Imperial Palace and Asakusa run two hours and start at $6.
Guided walks compared→Out of the city
The three listings above stay inside the city. If the coach you have in mind leaves it, that is a different page. Group days to Mt Fuji on this site start at $49, and one of them names the bus in its own title: the $152 day with a Lake Ashi cruise, lunch at the foot of Mt Fuji and a bullet train back, 5,358 reviews at 4.4.
Those are ten-hour days with almost all the time spent outside Tokyo, so they are compared on their own page, with the private cars and the small-group option. A coach day in the city and a Mt Fuji day are two different days; plenty of people book one of each.
Group days to Mt Fuji from $49, the bullet-train return and the private cars, side by side.
Mt Fuji days compared→Before you pay
The boarding point. No description among the three names one, and none mentions hotel pickup. Read the meeting place on the listing and work out how you reach it on the morning. If you need to be collected from a hotel, that is what the private cars with a driver do, at a very different price.
The tower tickets. Only the afternoon names a deck. If you take a full day and want to go up, the Tokyo Skytree deck on its own is $13 on this site and Tokyo Tower is $9; their own pages say what each one covers.
The kind of bus. The afternoon says hybrid bus. None of the three descriptions mentions an open top deck, so do not book one of these expecting the sky above you.
Cancelling. All three listings show Free cancellation. The exact cut-off is on each listing.
Common questions
On this site, $40 for the four-hour afternoon, $82 for the full day with lunch and $120 for the full day with a ferry ride. Those are the live listing prices; the cancellation terms are on each listing.
Four hours for the afternoon tour, 9 to 9.5 hours for the lunch day and ten hours for the day with the ferry. There is no shorter one on this site.
On one of the three. The $82 day names lunch in its title and description. The $120 day names a matcha tasting but no lunch, and the afternoon tour names neither.
The $40 afternoon names the viewing deck of Tokyo Tower. Both full days stop at Tokyo Skytree, but their descriptions do not say whether the ticket up is included. On its own, the Skytree deck is $13 here.
None of the three descriptions names the meeting point, and none mentions hotel pickup. It is given on each listing, so check it before you pay and plan how to get there that morning.
The $120 full day with the ferry: 2,125 reviews at 4.7. The afternoon has 387 at 4.5 and the lunch day 302 at 4.6.
Yes, as a separate day. Group days to Mt Fuji start at $49, and the $152 day names the bus in its title and returns by bullet train. They have their own page on this site.
Go deeper
Mt Fuji, Hakone, Nikko and the snow monkeys, by group bus or private car.
Mt FujiGroup buses, the bullet-train return and private days.
HakoneLake Ashi, Owakudani and the ropeway, by coach or private car.
teamLabThe digital art museum ticket: what you walk through and how long it takes.
SkytreeThe observation deck ticket and the tours that include Skytree.
Tokyo TowerMain deck, the top deck tour and the bus tour that stops there.
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