Tokyo Skytree tickets: the deck ticket and the tours that go there

The listing reads in three lines. Entry to the observation decks of TOKYO SKYTREE®, which it gives as Japan’s tallest tower at 634 m, with a panoramic view of the city. An upgrade adds the Tembo Galleria at 450 m. And the duration field says one day, with no time given for the visit itself.

That makes Tokyo Skytree observation deck tickets a simple purchase: one price for the decks, the Tembo Galleria as an add-on priced on the listing, and nothing else bundled. There is no guide, no transfer and no meal in the description. You make your own way to the tower and go up.

The review count is the reason to trust it. 15,922 people have rated this ticket, the highest number on the site; the runner-up, the teamLab museum ticket, has 14,573. The rating, 4.5, is a little under the 4.67 weighted average across the site.

The deck ticket is $13. The Tokyo Tower Admission Ticket, for the city’s other tower, is $9, $4 less. Everything else that reaches Skytree costs more because it sells a different thing.

The bus tours sell a day. The 1 Day Bus Tour at $82 runs 9 to 9.5 hours, English-guided with lunch, and visits Meiji Shrine, the Imperial Palace Outer Garden, Odaiba, Nakamise Shopping Street in Asakusa and Tokyo Skytree. The Meiji Shrine, Asakusa, Skytree Bus Tour and Cruise at $120 runs ten hours and adds a matcha tasting and a ferry cruise through the city. Neither listing says whether the deck ticket is in the price, so check before you buy a separate one.

The private day, $301 for 8 to 9 hours, is a customisable tour with transport and hotel pickup and drop-off; its listing names Shibuya Crossing, Senso-ji Temple, Tokyo Skytree and Meiji Shrine. The helicopters are $412 for a one-hour private tour built around Skytree and Tokyo Tower, and $568 for a flight of 10, 20 or 30 minutes. That listing does not say which length the price buys.

On this site, through the deck listing on the card above. Booking Tokyo Skytree tickets in advance on the listing means choosing your date and seeing the live price for it before you travel; the $13 here was read off the listing in October 2026.

The deck listing is the only one here that sells tickets for Tokyo Skytree itself; the bus tours and the private day list the tower as a stop. This site compares live listings, not ticket desks, so there are no gate prices or opening hours on this page. If you plan to buy at the tower, check those on the day.

If you are weighing Skytree tickets in Tokyo against a tour that stops there, the line is simple. The ticket gives you the decks. The tours give you transport, a route and two to four other stops, and their listings do not promise the decks.

On price, the deck ticket is one of the cheapest listings on the site: $13, in the under-$50 band with eleven others. On reviews, it is the most judged: 15,922 ratings. On score, 4.5 is the lowest of the seven listings on this page; every other one is 4.6 or higher.

Read together, that is a cheap, heavily reviewed ticket that does one thing. If you want the city from 634 m, it does that for $13. If you want a guided day, Skytree is a stop on one, not a substitute for it. And if you want a second view, Tokyo Tower is $4 cheaper and rated 4.6 across 4,544 reviews.

Two more listings sit close to the tower without going up it: the Asakusa sushi class, which its listing places near Tokyo Skytree, and the Sumida River Yakatabune dinner cruise, with views of Skytree from the water.