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Which Fuji day actually gets you the mountain. Where the tuna auction moved. Whether the go-karts are worth it. Every tour in Japan, reviewed and ranked.
The days Japan is famous for.
Fuji, the food, the tea rooms, the sumo mornings, the karts and the temples. The handful of days most trips are planned around, and the best way to book each.
Mt Fuji: pick the day that fits.
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Bullet-train returns, five-lake loops, Chureito at first light. These three carry the most travellers — the full list splits the rest by what kind of Fuji day you want.
Fifth Station & Hakone in one sweep
Up the mountain road before the cloud builds, pirate ship across Lake Ashi, ropeway over the sulphur vents, home for dinner.
Chureito, Oshino Hakkai, the lake shore
The pagoda frame you have seen a thousand times, then the spring ponds and Kawaguchiko’s north shore while the reflection holds.
Five lakes, an onsen, no schedule
Yamanaka’s swans at dawn, soba by the water, an open-air bath with the summit floating over the fence.
Japan’s most popular tours.
Every review →The tours more travellers take than anything else in Japan — and what makes each one worth its day.
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Mt Fuji and Hakone 1-Day Bus Tour Return by Bullet Train
One long day out of Tokyo: Mt Fuji 5th Station, lunch, Hakone Ropeway, Lake Ashi cruise, then Shinkansen back.
From · $163
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1-Day Tokyo Bus Tour
from $129
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PERFECT KYOTO 1-Day 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
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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
Four days in Tokyo is never enough.
The dawn market, the sumo stable, the izakaya alley with fourteen tastings: the capital’s best days sell out before the flight lands. Book the ones that matter.
Kyoto, done properly.
Tea houses that outlast the whole trip, bamboo before the crowds, the geisha districts at lantern hour. Kyoto rewards the traveller who reserved ahead.
In Osaka, eat first. Everything else after.
Japan’s kitchen runs on takoyaki smoke and neon. Work down Dotonbori one skewer at a time, climb the castle to earn the next round, and keep one night for the kushikatsu alleys of Shinsekai.
- 1Osaka Go Karting Tour with Funny Costumefrom $46
- 2Osaka Castle: Museum and Tower Entry Ticketfrom $7
- 3Shinsekai Food Tour with 13-15 Dishes at 5 Eateriesfrom $53
What your yen buys.
Every tour on the site, sorted by what it actually costs. A great Japan day starts at the price of lunch.
Market walks, tea rooms, izakaya crawls and entry tickets — the everyday best of Japan.
The classic day tours: Fuji loops, food nights, cooking classes with lunch included.
- 11-Day Tokyo Bus Tourfrom $129
- 2PERFECT KYOTO 1-Day Bus Tourfrom $129
- 3Mt Fuji & Hakone Cruise, Drum Show Bullet Train 1 Day from Tokyofrom $149
Private guides, chartered days and the once-a-trip splurges that earn the price.
Only in Japan.
Temples and food halls you can find across Asia. The street karts, the bathing monkeys and the sumo mornings belong to Japan alone.
The Street Kart
Tokyo invented dressing as a game character and driving a go-kart through rush-hour traffic, and it is exactly as absurd as it sounds. It is street-legal, it passes Tokyo Tower and the Shibuya crossing, and it books out days ahead. One piece of paperwork rules the day: an International Driving Permit, arranged before you fly.
- 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
- 3Osaka Go Karting Tour with Funny Costume★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 2,658 reviews
The Bathing Monkeys
In the steam of Jigokudani, an hour above Nagano, live the only monkeys on earth that bathe in hot springs. They learned it in the 1960s by watching people, and never stopped. Winter is the season: red faces, snow on fur, and complete indifference to your camera.
- 11-Day Snow Monkeys, Zenko-ji Temple & Sake in Nagano★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,020 reviews
- 2Nagano: Snow Monkeys, Zenkoji Temple & Sake Day Trip★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 833 reviews
- 3Snow Monkey 1 Day Tour with Beef Sukiyaki Lunch★★★★★★★★★★ 4.6 · 295 reviews
The Sumo Morning
A handful of Tokyo stables open their dawn practice to visitors. There is no commentary and no applause, just the slap of skin and salt on clay from six in the morning. Tournament seats vanish in an hour; keiko runs most mornings of the year.
- 1Sumo Show Experience with Chicken Hot Pot and a Photo★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 6,678 reviews
- 2Sumo Show and Dining Experience★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 2,742 reviews
- 3the SUMO show★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,960 reviews
Japan starts again when the salarymen clock off.
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Best of Shinjuku: Izakaya Food Tour (4 Stops, 14+ Tastings)
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Osaka Local Foodie Walking Tour in Dotonbori and Shinsekai
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Premium Go-Kart Tour with Tower & Shibuya Crossing
Read our review →Book these before you fly to Japan.
Most of Japan can be booked from your hotel the night before. These cannot — they run on permits, ticket releases and calendars that do not care when your flight lands.
- 01teamLab Planets TOKYO Digital Art Museum Entry TicketTimed-entry tickets, released in advance — the evening slots go first.
- 02Tokyo Studio Ghibli Museum and Ghibli Film Appreciation TourTickets go on sale once a month and sell out in hours. There is no ticket window at the gate.
- 03Flagship 2-Hours Official Street Go-Kart Tour – Tokyo Bay ShopYou need an International Driving Permit issued at home before you travel — no IDP, no kart.
- 04Sumo Tournament Tour with Chair Seat TicketsSix tournaments a year, fifteen days each. The good seats are gone within the hour.
When the tsuyu rain sets in, go indoors and go deeper.
Tsuyu, the June rain season, is real — and so is the sudden August downpour. The best answers are under a roof: a tatami tea room, a cutting board and a knife, a sake cellar, a sumo stable at practice. Rain cancels none of these.
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Kyoto593 tours
Osaka348 tours
Okinawa & the Islands115 tours
Hiroshima111 tours
Kanazawa63 tours
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