Tokyo Night walking tours take you on foot through the neon districts after dark, with a local guide and a small group. They are the lowest fares for a guided evening, and most start at a station exit.
A walk with a camera pointed at you: 5:30pm from the Lion statue, through the neon of Nishi-Shinjuku and Kabukicho, a train to Shibuya with the guide, and 20 edited photos after. The train fare is yours.
From $117 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
An hour on foot from the Hachiko statue through Center Gai and Udagawacho, then an hour on the open-air rooftop deck, ticket included. You can stay up there after the guide leaves.
From $102 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Ninety minutes through Kabukicho's back alleys and a shrine lit at night, from the police box at Shinjuku East Exit. The guide picks you a drink from a vending machine, and it runs rain or shine.
From $21 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Two hours with a local guide and five people at most: the lane of stalls by the tracks, Kabukicho, the tiny bar lanes, a shrine and the back streets. A small souvenir is included.
From $26 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
The lowest fare here: ninety minutes in Kabukicho and the food-stall lane, with a guide who explains pachinko and helps you through a first game. The game money you spend is on top.
From $20 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
5:30pm from the Lion statue, two and a half hours to the Shibuya scramble, a drink and 20 edited photos, for $117.01 a person.
See this tourIt is a local guide and a small group on foot, after dark, in the neighbourhoods where the evening happens. You meet at a station exit and walk for 90 minutes to two and a half hours.
The walks here stay in two districts. In Shinjuku they cover Kabukicho, the lanes of food stalls and bars by the tracks, and the shrines tucked between them. In Shibuya they cover the scramble crossing and the back streets, and one walk then takes you up to Shibuya Sky, the open-air rooftop deck 229 m above the crossing.
The plain walks cost $20.80 to $26 a person. The rooftop walk is $102.70 with its deck ticket, and the photo walk $117.01.
At $20.80 to $26 a person, a Shinjuku walk costs a fraction of a food tour or a drive. You pay for the guide, and you spend what you like on top.
A guide shows you the lanes, the exits and the back streets once. After that you can come back on your own another night, which is harder after an evening seen from a car.
The local's Shinjuku walk takes five people at most, the Shibuya rooftop walk eight, and the pachinko walk is private to your group.
Most walks set the start when you book, so ask for one after sunset: 4:29pm on 15 December, 6:58pm on 15 June. The photo walk's 5:30pm start is before sunset from 24 February to 27 September, so in summer it walks you into the dusk.
Pachinko halls are loud, bright and baffling from the door. The pachinko walk takes you in and helps you through a first game; the game money is yours.
The two districts give you different evenings. Here is how the walks compare.
| Shinjuku walks | Shibuya walk | |
|---|---|---|
| Meet | Shinjuku Station East Exit: the Lion statue or the police box | The Hachiko statue, by SHIBU HACHI BOX |
| You see | Kabukicho, the bar and food-stall lanes, a shrine | The scramble, Center Gai, Udagawacho, then the rooftop deck |
| Length | 90 minutes to 2.5 hours | 2 hours |
| Group | Small, or private | Up to 8 |
| Extras | A vending-machine drink, a souvenir, or a first pachinko game | The deck ticket |
| Fare | $20.80 to $26 a person | $102.70 a person |
Check availability from $102.70
Shinjuku is for the lanes and the nightlife; Shibuya is for the crossing and the view from above. The photo walk does both, starting in Shinjuku and ending in Shibuya.
An hour in Shibuya's streets with a guide and an hour on the open-air rooftop deck, ticket included, for $102.70 a person.
Check availabilityTo fit a walk into a longer night, our one-evening plan sets out the order.
Would you rather ride than walk? Every way to spend the evening is compared on Tokyo Night Tours.