Day trips from Tokyo
Rated 4.6 out of 5 by 2,426 GetYourGuide reviewers
If you want Nikko in one day without planning trains and mountain buses, this is the coach to book: two and a half hours with a guide at Toshogu, then up the Irohazaka to Kegon Falls and Lake Chuzenji. Choose the option with the Toshogu ticket, and lunch if you want it sorted.
Starts inGinza, Tokyo
The day starts in Ginza, at Ginza Inz 2, across the street from the Hands store, a few minutes from Ginza Station exit C9 and JR Yurakucho. The coach takes about two and a half hours to Nikko, and you see the vermilion Shinkyo Bridge from the window as you arrive.
The longest stop is the one that matters: about two and a half hours at Toshogu Shrine with the guide, through the Yomeimon gate, past the three wise monkeys and the sleeping cat, with time to look properly at carvings most visitors rush past. With the ticket option you go inside the paid precinct; without it you have free time around the outside.
The coach then climbs the Irohazaka road to Kegon Falls, where you have about 70 minutes for lunch and the viewing deck, and stops for about 25 minutes on the shore of Lake Chuzenji. It is back in Ginza after about ten and a half hours in all.
The guides speak English and Spanish, and reviewers often mention them by name. On a day this long, a good guide is what you are paying for.
Through the year
In October and early November the Irohazaka is famous for its leaves and very busy, so stop times can shift. In winter Kegon Falls can freeze into columns of ice, and the lake shore is often white; the tour runs all year.
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Worth knowing: The lake stop is short, about 25 minutes
Ginza, Tokyo
Meet the guide at Ginza Inz 2, opposite the Hands store, and board the coach.
Shinkyo Bridge
A view of the vermilion bridge from the coach.
Toshogu Shrine
About 2.5 hours with the guide; inside the precinct on the ticket option.
Kegon Falls
About 70 minutes for lunch and the falls.
Lake Chuzenji
About 25 minutes on the shore.
Ginza, Tokyo
Back after about 10.5 hours.
It is the most-booked Nikko tour on GetYourGuide by a long way, with more than 2,400 reviews, and it gives Toshogu the most time of the coach days. The H.I.S. tour from Shinjuku includes the shrine ticket in every booking and has a licensed guide; the small-group van adds the Oya quarry and hotel pick-up for a little more.
Checked against the GetYourGuide listing on 21 October 2026. Prices and options change: the calendar shows the current ones.
The cheapest option has no Toshogu ticket and no lunch, so you see the shrine area from outside the paid precinct. The listing says entry and lunch come with the higher options.
What to do. Pick the option with the Toshogu ticket; it is the reason to go.
Only on the option with the ticket. The listing says entry to Toshogu Shrine is included if you choose that option; on the basic option you have free time outside the paid area.
About two and a half hours, guided, the longest stop of the day.
On the premium option, at a restaurant in Nikko. Otherwise there is about 70 minutes of free time at Kegon Falls to eat.
Ginza, at the meeting point across the street from the Hands store, near Ginza Station exit C9 and JR Yurakucho Station. Arrive ten minutes early.
GetYourGuide · 4.7/5 from 79 reviews
A coach day from Shinjuku with a licensed English guide and the Toshogu ticket included.
Departs from Shinjuku, Tokyo · 10 hours
GetYourGuide · 4.6/5 from 11 reviews
Nine seats in a van from your Tokyo hotel, long stops, and the Oya stone quarry on the way home.
Departs from Tokyo (hotel pick-up) · 10 hours
GetYourGuide · 4.5/5 from 1563 reviews
A guided coach day from Tokyo to Toshogu, Kegon Falls and Lake Chuzenji, with free time for a yuba lunch.
Departs from Tokyo · 10.5 hours
Sources: getyourguide.com. Checked October 2026. Photos: GetYourGuide.