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Skybus Tokyo offers four bus tours of central Tokyo with some of them having guidance in English, Korean and Chinese as well as Japanese. Open-top double-decker buses also run on some of the routes.



Tours start outside the Mitsubishi Building next to the Marunouchi Building across Gyoko Dori from the Shin Marunouchi Building near the Marunouchi Exit of Tokyo Station.

The T01 route follows a circle from the Mitsubishi Building to the Imperial Palace to the National Museum of Modern Art, the British Embassy, National Theater, Supreme Court, the Diet Building, Kasumigaseki and Ginza. Price is 1500 yen for adults; children 700 yen. Buses depart on the hour from 10am-6pm (1 March-30 November) and from 10am-5pm (2 January-27 February).



The T03 route follows a circle from the Mitsubishi Building to the Imperial Palace to Tokyo Tower, Rainbow Bridge, Toyosu, Tsukiji, Ginza, Hibiya, and Marunouchi. Price is 1700 yen for adults; children 800 yen. Buses depart at 40 minutes past the hour from 10.40am-5.40pm (1 March-30 November) and at these times 10.20am, 11.50am, 1.20pm, 2.50pm, 4.20pm (2 January-27 February). This tour is in Japanese only. The tour lasts approx 50 mins.

The T03 route follows a circle from the Mitsubishi Building to the Imperial Palace to Tokyo Tower, Rainbow Bridge, Toyosu, Tsukiji, Ginza, Hibiya, and Marunouchi. Price is 1700 yen for adults; children 800 yen. Buses depart at 40 minutes past the hour from 10.40am-5.40pm (1 March-30 November) and at these times 10.20am, 11.50am, 1.20pm, 2.50pm, 4.20pm (2 January-27 February). This tour is in Japanese only. The tour lasts approx 60 mins.



The N01 night route follows a circle from the Mitsubishi Building to the Imperial Palace, Rainbow Bridge, Odaiba, Rainbow Bridge, Tsukiji, Ginza, Hibiya, and Marunouchi. Price is 2000 yen for adults; children 1000 yen. Buses depart at 6.30pm on Friday and Saturday evenings except January 1. This tour is in Japanese only. The tour lasts approx 120 mins including a one hour stop at Aqua City in Odaiba.

The classic T04 route in a class-style bus follows a circle from the Mitsubishi Building to Hibiya, the Diet Building, Omotesando, Shibuya, Aoyama/Jingu Gaien, Akasaka Palace State Guesthouse, Akasaka Mitsuke and the Imperial Palace. Price is 1200 yen for adults; children 600 yen. Buses depart daily at 30 minutes past the hour from 10.30am to 5.30pmexcept January 1. This tour is in Japanese only. The tour lasts approx 70 mins.

Skybus Tokyo
Ticket Office, 1F Mitsubishi Building
Tel: 03 3215 0008


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Few people depend on taking a bus to work in the major Japanese cities of Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya. At best, a local bus will take you from your suburb to the nearest subway or rail station from where you can complete your commute. In general, Japanese city buses are cheap, crowded and slow.



In smaller cities such as Kyoto, which has only 2 subway lines, buses are essential for getting around town, if you don't have your own transport, whether that is a car or bicycle.

Car-mad Japan seems to discourage the urban bus and there is no bus culture that you would encounter in a city like London, for example. Night buses, too, are something of a rarity as are double-decker buses for anything other than sightseeing tours of Tokyo.

Japan does have an excellent system of inter-city highway buses however, with even the smallest town having a daily or weekly connection to the capital, Tokyo.


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Tour buses are a cheap and easy way to get to see some of Japan's major sights. Tour buses leave early in the morning from main stations, typically around 7am, and usually visit a couple of attractions during the day.



The tours may or may not include lunch. The tour guides, almost always uniformed Japanese women carrying colored flags, keep up a constant stream of patter from the front of the bus during the day. A movie may be shown in the evening as you head home on the highway.



Cheap tours can cost around 3,000 yen. Frequent destinations include Kyoto's Kinkakuji Temple, Nara, Ise Shima and Takayama. The most famous tour bus in Tokyo is the yellow Hato Bus, which provides English-language tours of the capital's many attractions.

Bus tours are advertised in newspapers and online and are usually paid for at any travel agent.


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