While you are visiting in Tokyo, you may be interested in checking out a Tokyo bus tour. There are many bus tours in Tokyo to choose from. However, one of the more popular Tokyo bus tours is Sky Bus Tokyo. You will definitely be given the opportunity to see the city of Tokyo with the Sky Bus Tokyo.
There are many different tours to choose from, but all of the tours start outside the Mitsubishi Building. You can choose from the T01 tour, the T03 tour, the T04 tour, and the N01 tour. Which tour you choose will depend on where in Tokyo you would like to see, the price you would like to pay, and what times would be most convenient for you to take part in a bus tour.
The T01 tour is one of the tours provided by Sky Bus Tokyo. The T01 follows a circle leaving from the Mitsubishi Building and hitting many locations including Imperial Palace, National Museum of Modern Art, the British Embassy, National Theater, Supreme Court, the Diet Building, Kasumigaseki, and Ginza. The cost of this tour is 1500 yen, but children ride for 700 yen. The tour buses for this tour leave on the hour every hour from 10am until 6pm. However, in January and February the tour buses stop at 5pm.
The T03 tour is a little more expensive. The cost of this tour is 1700 yen for adults and 800 yen for children. Upon leaving the Mitsubishi Building you will see many locations which include Imperial Palace, Tokyo Tower, Rainbow Bridge, Toyosu, Tsukiji. Ginza, Hibiya, and Marunouchi. The buses for this tour depart 40 minutes past the hour from 10:40am to 5:40pm from March through November. However, in January in the bus departs at 10:20am, 11:50am, 1:20pm, 2:50pm, and 4:20pm. This tour is just under an hour long. The only unfortunate fact about this tour is it is only available in Japanese.
The T04 tour is the least expensive of the daytime tours available from Sky Bus Tokyo. The price of the T04 tour is 1200 yen for adults and 600 yen for children. The tour buses leave the Mitsubishi Building and follow their route to see Hibiya, the Diet Building, Omotesando, Shibuya, Aoyama, Jingu Gaien, Akasaka Palace State Guesthouse, Akasaka Mitsuke, and the Imperial Palace. The buses for this tour leave the Mitsubishi 30 minutes past the hour from 10:30am to 5:30am. The only day out of the year this tour doesn’t run is January 1st. This tour runs just over an hour long. However, this tour is only available in Japanese unfortunately.
The N01 tour is the only night tour available from Sky Bus Tokyo. This tour is the most expensive tour of all the tours available. The cost of this tour is 2000 yen for adults and 1000 yen for children. After the tour buses leave the Mitsubishi Building they follow their route to many locations including the Imperial Palace, Rainbow Bridge, Odaiba, Tsukiji, Ginza, Hibiya, and Marunouchi. This tour is available on Friday and Saturday evenings and only depart at 6:30pm. The N01 tour does not run on January 1st. This tour is about 2 hours long, which includes a one hour long stop at Aqua City in Odaiba. Unfortunately, this tour is only available in Japanese.
As you can see, Sky Bus Tokyo has some great tours to offer. Although it may seem unfortunate that most of the tours are only available in Japanese; if you brush up on your Japanese you will be just fine. If that isn’t an option, you can just take in the sights and pick up your own tour book of the city to look through as you come upon each sight of the city.