Tokyo Night tours in Shinjuku start at one station exit and spend the evening in Kabukicho and the lanes beside it. You choose a guide, a photographer or a host for the night out.
Starts here at 5:30pm, at the Lion statue, and walks you through the neon to the tiny bar lanes for about fifteen minutes before a train to Shibuya. Your edited photos follow; the camera stays down where the bars ask.
From $117 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Ninety minutes with a local guide from the police box at the East Exit, into Kabukicho's back alleys and a shrine at night. One vending-machine drink is included, and it goes ahead in the rain.
From $21 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
A small walk, five people at most, with a local guide: the lane of stalls by the tracks, Kabukicho, the bar lanes for about fifteen minutes, and Hanazono Shrine for twenty. Two to two and a half hours.
From $26 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
At the lowest fare in Shinjuku, ninety minutes in Kabukicho and the food-stall lane by the tracks, and a first game of pachinko with the rules explained. The game money is yours to spend or not.
From $20 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
A one-hour private shoot that starts in Kabukicho, with a welcome drink at a bar along the way and at least 20 edited photos per guest. The photographer confirms the exact spot by message.
From $97 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
An hour with a photographer from the west side of the station, outside Yodobashi Camera, working through Shinjuku and Kabukicho. Posing help is part of it, and your photos land in a private gallery.
From $102 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Three hours in the bars, private, from the Lion statue at the East Exit and out as far as Shibuya, ending at 11:00pm. The first round and two dishes are paid; after that you pay as you go.
From $84 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Students from a local university meet you at the East Exit square for an hour in Kabukicho and an hour in the lanes, then karaoke. The guide's room fee is covered; your drinks are not.
From $42 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Two and a half hours from Shinjuku's neon to the Shibuya scramble with a photographer-guide, for $117.01 a person, with 20 edited photos.
See this tourShinjuku is where Tokyo's evening is loudest. East of the station, Kabukicho fills with lit signs and video screens. Beside the tracks, Omoide Yokocho packs food stalls into a narrow lane, and a few streets away Golden Gai crams tiny bars into narrow alleys.
A Shinjuku night tour takes you into all of this with a guide, a photographer or a host. Most start at the East Exit, at the Lion statue or the police box a few metres from it.
Prices run from $20.80 to $117.01 a person.
Kabukicho, the food-stall lane and the bar lanes all sit a short walk from one station. You can see all three in 90 minutes.
Photography is prohibited in parts of the bar lanes and the food-stall lane. Your guide tells you where the camera goes away, and which corners are fine.
The photo walk starts at 5:30pm, before sunset from 24 February to 27 September, so in summer the neon comes on while you walk. The custom night ends at 11:00pm, after dark in every month, and the students' night starts whenever you like, from 10:00am to 11:30pm.
You can spend $20.80 on a pachinko walk, $97.51 on a private photo shoot or $84.50 on three hours in the bars, all from the same exit.
Three kinds of evening start from the same exit. Here is how they compare.
| Guided walk | Photo shoot | Night out | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meet | The East Exit: Lion statue or police box | Kabukicho, Nishi-Shinjuku or the Lion statue | The East Exit |
| Length | 90 minutes to 2.5 hours | 1 hour; the walk 2.5 hours | 3 hours, or 2 to 8 with the students |
| What you do | Walk the lanes with a guide | Pose in the neon for a photographer | Drink, eat and sing karaoke |
| Drinks | One vending-machine drink, or none | A drink on some | The first round on the custom night |
| Fare | $20.80 to $26 a person | $97.51 to $117.01 a person | $42 to $84.50 a person |
Check availability from $21.75
Walk if you want the district explained. Book a shoot if you want to take it home in photos. Go out with a host if you want to be inside the bars rather than looking in.
From the Lion statue with a local guide, the first round and two dishes paid, ending at 11:00pm, for $84.50 a person.
Check availabilityOur post on the rules in the tiny bar lanes covers photos, seats and manners before you go.
Would you rather see the bay or the car meet? Every way to spend the evening is compared on Tokyo Night Tours.