About Visit Tokyo Guide

An independent, unofficial guide to visiting Tokyo: what to see, which ticket to buy for which building, and how to spend one, two or three days without wasting a morning on a day something happens to be closed. We are not the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Japan National Tourism Organization or its Go Tokyo site, Tokyo Metro, JR East, teamLab, the Oriental Land Company or Tokyo Disney Resort, the Ghibli Museum, Tokyo Skytree, Shibuya Sky, or a tour operator or ticket seller, and we sell nothing directly. The whole guide starts on the Tokyo city guide homepage, and every page states the date its own figures were last read.

Why this site exists

Tokyo trips built from old blog posts fall apart on the small print. Monday closes the Tokyo National Museum and most other state and metropolitan museums, but not the temples and shrines next door to them. teamLab is two separate venues, Planets at Toyosu and Borderless at Azabudai Hills, with tickets that do not interchange. Toyosu and Tsukiji are two different markets: the tuna auction moved to Toyosu in 2018, and the food stalls people picture are at Tsukiji's outer market, which never moved. The Ghibli Museum sells a fixed number of dated, timed tickets through one channel only, and it sells out.

So every price, hour and closed day here is read off the official page of the venue itself and stamped with the date it was read. Where the official source does not state a figure, the page says not stated instead of borrowing a plausible one.

Where the information comes from

Opening hours, closed days, ticket names and admission prices come from the official sites of the venues themselves: gotokyo.org, tokyo-skytree.jp, shibuya-scramble-square.com, teamlab.art, ghibli-museum.jp, tokyodisneyresort.jp, senso-ji.jp, meijijingu.or.jp, tnm.jp and env.go.jp for Shinjuku Gyoen, plus tokyometro.jp, jreast.co.jp and keisei.co.jp for rail and airport access. Each page prints its source and the check date in its freshness box.

Tour prices, ratings and review counts are the booking platform's own published numbers, read on the date shown on the card.

Dollars and yen

Every price on this site prints the dollar figure first, with the venue's own yen figure beside it in brackets: for example $15.55 (¥2,400). The yen figure is the official one; the dollar figure is a conversion at ¥1,000 = $6.48, the European Central Bank's reference rate for the yen, read through api.frankfurter.dev on 2026-09-08. That single rate stays fixed across the site so figures stay comparable, and it moves; check a live converter before a large purchase.

What we do not claim

There is no invented author here and no claim that someone from this site stood in a particular queue. We do not operate or personally conduct these tours, and we do not inspect venues or audit any operator.

We hold no bookings. Every Check Availability button hands you to the platform the tour or ticket is sold on, where the price, terms and cancellation window are theirs. Official ticket offices are linked plainly, without tracking, whenever buying direct is the better move, which for several of the Tokyo tickets covered here it is.

How the site pays for itself

Tour and ticket links on this site go through GetYourGuide, and the hotel-area links on the neighbourhood pages go through Stay22, which forwards you to Booking.com and other booking sites. Book through either and the platform pays us a commission at the same price you would have paid going there yourself. That pays for the research and buys nothing else: not placement, not a rating, not the wording of a recommendation.

Where the official ticket office is cheaper or the only sensible option, the page says so even though that link earns nothing. The mechanics are set out on the affiliate disclosure page.

Corrections

Museum hours change with the season and prices move every year; the site is re-checked quarterly, but a reader on the ground finds a change first. If a number here is out of date, write to us with what you found. A corrected figure is worth more than a defended one.