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10 hTokyo Mt Fuji 5th Station & Hakone Cruise Bus Tour w/Bullet Train
★ 4.4 · 5 333 reviews
- Ten hours, on Lake Ashi
- Return to Tokyo on bullet train
- Lunch at foot of Mt. Fuji
- Free cancellation
$152
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Hakone Ryokan
A Hakone ryokan gives you a traditional inn, hot spring bath and dinner. We compared 19 tours, with prices from $55, free cancellation and a top pick rated 4.4 across 5,333 reviews. The ropeway, Lake Ashi and Mount Fuji make the daylight hours shine.
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Day tour$55
Today's lowest day tour from Tokyo across all 19 tours
Average rating
All 19 tours45
21,920 verified reviews across 19 tours
Your day
Shortest to longest10–12h
Shortest: Tokyo Mt Fuji 5th Station
Longest: Mt. Fuji 5th Station
Free cancellation 24 h
Tokyo and Hakone starts
Mobile voucher
English-speaking guides
Hotel pickup options
Owakudani ropeway
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Nineteen ways to spend the day in Hakone
Every tour on this page reaches Hakone, Mount Fuji or both, most of them leave Tokyo in the morning and have you back the same evening. What separates them is what fits in between: the Fuji fifth station, the ropeway over the Owakudani valley, the boat across Lake Ashi, the torii of the Hakone shrine standing in the water. If you already have a room booked for the night up there, the train pass belongs on the list too. Prices from $45.
Lowest day fare8,054 reviews
10 hTokyo: Mt. Fuji Tour, Hakone Ropeway, Owakudani, Lake Ashi
★ 4.6 · 8 054 reviews
- Ten hours, to explore Mt. Fuji
- Visit Hakone Shrine
- Most booked
- Free cancellation
5th Station2,416 reviews
11 hTokyo: Mt. Fuji 5th Station & Hakone Cruise 1-Day Bus Tour
★ 4.3 · 2 416 reviews
- 11 hours, on Lake Ashi
- Visit Mt. Fuji’s 5th Station
- Cable car ride
- Free cancellation
$127
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Meal includedShinkansen home
10 hFrom Tokyo: Mt. Fuji & Hakone Tour w/ Return by Bullet Train
★ 4.3 · 1 689 reviews
- Ten hours, a local guide
- Witness Owakudani volcanic valley
- Shinkansen return to Tokyo
- Free cancellation
$115
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Rated 4.9Swan Beach
1 dayTokyo: Mt Fuji & Hakone Ropeway, Lake Ashi Cruise, Owakudani
★ 4.9 · 1 049 reviews
- A full day, on a Hakone pirate ship
- Visit Hakone Shrine
- Ride the Hakone Ropeway
- Free cancellation
Six stopsOdawara Castle
10 hTokyo: Mt Fuji & Hakone 6 Spots Tour w/ Bullet Train
★ 4.3 · 753 reviews
- Ten hours, to Tokyo by Shinkansen
- Lake Ashi cruise
- Hakone Shrine & Odawara Castle
- Free cancellation
$109
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Both sidesRated 4.8
10 hMt. Fuji & Hakone Tour: Arakurayama, Oshino Hakkai, Owakudani
★ 4.8 · 549 reviews
- Ten hours, at Arakurayama Park
- Explore Oshino Hakkai
- Cruise Lake Ashi
- Free cancellation
Oshino HakkaiRated 4.7
10 hMt. Fuji & Hakone Day Tour with Lake Ashi Cruise and Ropeway
★ 4.7 · 133 reviews
- Ten hours, views of the torii gate
- Take the Hakone Ropeway
- Explore Oshino Hakkai
- Free cancellation
Lake cruiseRated 4.8
10 hTokyo: Mt. Fuji Cruise & Hakone Ropeway Day Trip by Bus
★ 4.8 · 109 reviews
- Ten hours, on a scenic cruise
- Views of Mt. Fuji
- Photo at the torii gate
- Free cancellation
Enoshima tooRated 4.8
10 hTokyo: Hakone & Enoshima Tour, Owakudani Ropeway, Mt Fuji View
★ 4.8 · 114 reviews
- Ten hours, over steaming Owakudani
- Cruise Lake Ashi
- Local seafood
- Free cancellation
Luxury busGotemba stop
12 hTokyo: Mt. Fuji 5th Station, Gotemba & Hakone by Luxury Bus
★ 4.4 · 91 reviews
- Twelve hours, to its Fifth Station
- Visit Mount Fuji
- Longest tour here
- Free cancellation
2 or 3 daysLowest price
PassHakone: Train Pass with Unlimited Rides & Activity Discounts
★ 4.3 · 181 reviews
- Hakone: Train Pass with Unlimited Rides
- Local trains and buses
- Cheapest here
- Free cancellation
PrivateRated 4.9
10 hTokyo: Mt. Fuji and Hakone Day Tour, Lake Kawaguchiko, Arakurayama
★ 4.9 · 170 reviews
- Ten hours, Hakone’s Lake Ashi
- Discover Chureito Pagoda
- Discover Oshino Hakkai
- Free cancellation
$307
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Onsen stopRated 5.0
10 hFrom Tokyo: Private Tour to Fuji/Hakone - Onsen, Art, Nature
★ 5.0 · 147 reviews
- Ten hours, from Tokyo to Hakone
- Visit Lake Ashi and Hakone Shrine
- Relax in an Onsen
- Free cancellation
$318
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Private car773 reviews
10 – 11 hTokyo: Mt. Fuji & Hakone Private Custom Tour with an English Driver
★ 4.8 · 773 reviews
- 10 to 11 hours, an English-Hindi speaking driver
- Lakes and villages
- Panoramic viewpoints
- Free cancellation
$309
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Hotel pickupRated 4.9
10 hTokyo: Private Mount Fuji & Hakone Customizable Tour
★ 4.9 · 129 reviews
- Ten hours, a professional English-speaking driver
- Hotel pickup included
- Hotel pickup
- Free cancellation
$339
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Private groupRated 4.9
10 – 12 hTokyo to Mt. Fuji & Hakone: Private Customizable Day Tour
★ 4.9 · 84 reviews
- 10 to 12 hours
- Scenic views and landmarks
- Travel in comfort
- Free cancellation
$394
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Your own carRated 4.9
10 hFrom Tokyo: Private Mt. Fuji and Hakone Tour by Car
★ 4.9 · 63 reviews
- Ten hours, a private driver
- Yamanakako, Owakudani, Lake Ashi
- Trip to Mt. Fuji’s 5th Station
- Free cancellation
$476
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Guide includedRated 4.9
11 hTokyo: Mount Fuji & Hakone Private Tour with Guide
★ 4.9 · 83 reviews
- 11 hours
- Mount Fuji and Hakone
- Lakes and shrines
- Free cancellation
$667
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Which Hakone day is yours?
Seen the nineteen above and still torn? Out here there are really only four answers. Take the cheapest guided day and be back in Tokyo by the evening. Pay more and come home on the Shinkansen instead of the expressway. Buy the pass because you are sleeping in Hakone rather than rushing it. Or keep a car and a driver for yourselves. Pick what matters and we will point at one.
See it before you pay for it
Three things a day in Hakone is built around
The ropeway climbs over Owakudani, a valley of bare volcanic ground where steam comes out of the hillside, and it is in most of the tickets on this page. Below it, Lake Ashi is crossed by a sightseeing ship, and the red torii gate of the Hakone shrine stands at the water’s edge where the photographs are taken. The third thing is the one nobody sells as a tour: a Hakone hot spring ryokan, where the water comes out of the same ground the ropeway flies over, and where an evening rather than an hour is the point.
Side by side
A bus day, the pass, or a car of your own
People book these interchangeably and then find out they bought different days. The group bus days run ten to twelve hours out of Tokyo and cover Fuji and Hakone in one sweep, from $50. The train pass does the opposite: it gives you unlimited rides on the Hakone loop for two or three days, which only pays off if you are sleeping there. The private tours put a car and an English-speaking driver under you and let you set the order of the stops. Which is the best ryokan in Hakone is a question about rooms and dinner; which of these is the best day is a question about hours and who else is in the vehicle.
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| Tokyo: Mt. Fuji Tour, Hakone Ropeway, Owakudani, Lake Ashi | TOP PICKTokyo Mt Fuji 5th Station & Hakone Cruise Bus Tour w/Bullet Train | Tokyo: Mount Fuji & Hakone Private Tour with Guide | |
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| Price per person | $55 | $152 | $667 |
| What it is | A shared coach day from Tokyo, back the way it came | The same day, with the Shinkansen for the run home | A private day with your own guide and vehicle |
| Time it takes | 10 hours | 10 hours | 11 hours |
| Who is with you | A shared coach with other travellers | A shared coach with other travellers | Your own group, start to finish |
| Mt. Fuji 5th Station | Fuji viewpoints rather than the 5th Station | Yes — the highest point the road reaches | Yes, if that is how you want the day shaped |
| Owakudani ropeway | Yes — the cable car over the volcanic valley | Hakone by cruise and coach on this listing | Yes, and at whatever hour suits you |
| Lake Ashi cruise | Yes — the lake and Hakone Shrine | Yes — the cruise is the centre of the day | Yes, with time to stop at the torii gate |
| Lunch | Bring your own or buy it at the stops | Lunch at the foot of Mt. Fuji is in the ticket | Chosen with your guide on the day |
| Getting home | By coach, in the evening traffic | By bullet train from Odawara | By car, door to door |
| Cancellation | Free cancellation up to 24 hours | Free cancellation up to 24 hours | Free cancellation up to 24 hours |
Verdict
Take the day that reaches the mountain and rides the loop
It is the one day here that puts both halves of the trip in the same ten hours: the 5th Station on Mount Fuji, the cruise across Lake Ashi, and the bullet train back into Tokyo instead of the evening road — rated 4.4 across 5333 reviews, from $152. Keep the cheaper coach days for a first look at the valley, and the pass for the trip where you are sleeping in Hakone.
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The ticket decides what kind of day you get
Several different things get sold under the words “Hakone” and “Mount Fuji”, and the fare tells you which one you are buying. A shared coach day is the common one: ten to twelve hours out of Tokyo with a guide, a viewpoint on the mountain or the 5th Station itself, the ropeway over the steaming Owakudani valley, the boat across Lake Ashi to the torii gate, and the city again by night. The Hakone Train Pass is a different purchase altogether: two or three days of unlimited rides on the local trains, the buses, the ropeway and the boat, which only adds up if you are sleeping in the valley. And a private day is a third thing again: the car and the driver are yours, the route is agreed with you, and the fare covers the vehicle rather than a seat. A night in a ryokan, with its onsen and its kaiseki dinner, sits outside all three and is booked with the inn. Decide which you actually want before you compare numbers, because otherwise you are comparing days that are not the same day.
Two-minute check
Which Hakone tour fits your trip?
Three things decide it: whether you are going back to Tokyo the same night or staying, how many hours on a bus you are willing to trade for the fifth station, and whether you want a seat on a coach or the car to yourselves. The searches arrive in every language — ryokan en Hakone, onsen, kaiseki — and the booking question underneath them is always the same three. Answer them and find out before you pay rather than at the pickup point.
How many of you are going?Most of these are shared coaches; a private car and driver is yours for the day
How early do you want to leave Tokyo?The coaches that reach the 5th Station first leave Shinjuku early, and it shows at every stop
How much of the trip is Hakone getting?A few hours is the lake and the ropeway; a whole day adds Mt. Fuji, and a night adds the ryokan
Answer the three questions above
You’ll get the one that fits your answers, and the thing about it that catches people out.
Six ways to see Hakone
21,920 reviews across nineteen Hakone listings
Ratings are the operators’ own numbers on GetYourGuide, shown as published. We do not write reviews and we do not average other people’s into a score of our own.
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Tokyo Mt Fuji 5th Station & Hakone Cruise Bus Tour w/Bullet Train
From $152 · 5,333 reviews
★★★★★
The 5th Station, the lake, and the Shinkansen home
Ten hours that put both halves of the day in one ticket: up to Mt. Fuji’s 5th Station with lunch at the foot of the mountain, then the cruise across Lake Ashi with a guide, and the bullet train back into Tokyo rather than the expressway. Rated 4.4 across 5,333 reviews, which is why it is the one we point at first.
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Tokyo: Mt. Fuji Tour, Hakone Ropeway, Owakudani, Lake Ashi
From $55 · 8,054 reviews
★★★★★
The day more people here have booked than any other
Ten hours around Hakone Shrine, Lake Ashi, Lake Yamanaka and the Owakudani valley, with a panoramic cable car ride over the steam and Mt. Fuji across the valley. It carries 8,054 reviews at 4.6, more than any other listing on this page, and it is also the lowest fare among the guided days.
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Hakone: Train Pass with Unlimited Rides & Activity Discounts
From $45 · 181 reviews
★★★★★
The ticket for people who are staying the night
Not a tour at all: unlimited rides on most local trains and buses around Hakone for two or three consecutive days, plus discounts at more than 70 sightseeing places on the loop. Rated 4.3 across 181 reviews. This is the one that pays off when you sleep in a ryokan and take the circuit at your own speed.
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Tokyo: Mt Fuji & Hakone Ropeway, Lake Ashi Cruise, Owakudani
From $50 · 1,049 reviews
★★★★★
The highest rated shared day on this page
Hakone Shrine, the sightseeing ship across Lake Ashi, the ropeway and the vents of Owakudani, with Yamanakako Swan Beach on the Fuji side of the same day. Rated 4.9 across 1,049 reviews, the best score of any shared coach day here.
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Tokyo: Mt. Fuji 5th Station & Hakone Cruise 1-Day Bus Tour
From $127 · 2,416 reviews
★★★★★
Eleven hours, built around the mountain itself
The longest of the shared bus days: Mt. Fuji’s 5th Station, which is the highest point the road takes a coach to, then a cruise on Lake Ashi and a cable car ride over the Hakone hills. Rated 4.3 across 2,416 reviews.
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Tokyo: Mt. Fuji & Hakone Private Custom Tour with an English Driver
From $309 · 773 reviews
★★★★★
Your own car, and your own running order
A private full day from Tokyo with an English-speaking driver: lakes, villages and panoramic viewpoints in the order you choose, with pickup at your hotel rather than a meeting point in Shinjuku. Rated 4.8 across 773 reviews, the most reviewed private day here.
What it really costs
What a day in Hakone costs, line by line
Prices are per person and cover the coach or the car, the guide and the rides the listing names. Three things move the number: how long the day is, whether the train home is in the fare, and whether the vehicle is shared or yours. The night is a separate matter and not ours to price — search Japanese ryokan Hakone and the room rates you see move with the season and the meal plan, so we leave those numbers to the inns and stick to what the listings below actually say.
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| What you do | Price | What that buys | Cancellation |
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| Hakone train pass, 2 or 3 days | $45 | Unlimited rides on most local trains and buses, discounts at over 70 sights, rated 4.3 across 181 reviews | Free cancellation |
| Fuji, ropeway, Owakudani and Lake Ashi by coach | $55 | 10 hours from Tokyo, the cable car and the lake in one day, rated 4.6 across 8,054 reviews | Free cancellation |
| Fuji fifth station and Hakone cruise, bullet train back | $152 | 10 hours, lunch at the foot of the mountain, the Shinkansen home to Tokyo, 5,333 reviews | Free cancellation |
| Private day with onsen, art and nature | $318 | 10 hours, quieter viewpoints, Lake Ashi and the Hakone shrine, a hot spring stop, rated 5.0 | Free cancellation |
| Private tour with a guide of your own | $667 | 11 hours, pickup included, the whole route set around you, rated 4.9 across 83 reviews | Free cancellation |
Costs the listing doesn't show you
- The day is longer than the sightseeing in it. Ten to twelve hours are counted from the meeting point in Shinjuku or the hotel pickup, and two of those hours sit at each end of the day on the road.
- The ropeway and the boat are inside some fares and outside others. Where a listing names them, they are in the ticket; where it says nothing, expect to pay at the station and the pier.
- A night in a ryokan is a separate booking. The onsen bath, the tatami room and the kaiseki dinner come from the inn, and none of the nineteen listings here include one — they are days out and passes, not accommodation.
- Private is the whole car. The private day tours cover the vehicle and the driver rather than a seat, so read them against the size of your party, not per person.
- Lunch and the small stops are often your own. A meal is inside some day fares, but the eggs at Owakudani, the shrine and the shops along the loop are not, and small notes go further there than a card.
What is genuinely included
- The coach and the driver from the meeting point in Tokyo, and the return the same evening
- A guide on the day tours here, on the listings that name one
- The Hakone ropeway over Owakudani where the listing states it, as the ten-hour Fuji and ropeway day does
- The cruise across Lake Ashi to the torii gate, on the listings built around the Hakone loop
- Lunch on some of the full-day trips, inside the fare — the bullet train day names a meal at the foot of the mountain
- The Shinkansen leg back to Tokyo on the listings that say so in the title
- Free cancellation up to 24 hours before, with a full refund
The honest answer
Is a Hakone day tour worth it?
Fifty-five dollars buys ten hours, the ropeway over Owakudani, the ship across Lake Ashi and a look at Fuji from the side that photographs well, and 8,054 people have rated that day 4.6. What the extra hundred buys is the ride home: the bullet train instead of the evening road back into Tokyo, on the tour 5,333 people have reviewed. The lists titled best ryokan Hakone answer a different question entirely — that one is about the evening, and if you are giving Hakone an evening, the pass is the cheaper way to move around it.
What makes it worth it
- The cheapest guided day out of Tokyo is $55, and it carries 8,054 reviews — more than anything else on this page
- Mt. Fuji and Hakone sit on one day out: the mountain in the morning, Lake Ashi and the ropeway in the afternoon
- The cable car crosses Owakudani, where the valley still steams under the cabins
- Coming home on the Shinkansen starts at $115 and takes the evening road out of the day
- Free cancellation up to 24 hours, so a date held early is not money spent
Keep in mind
- A day tour from Tokyo runs 10 to 12 hours, and a fair part of that is the road out and back
- Not every listing reaches the 5th Station — some take Fuji viewpoints instead, so read the option before you pick a date
- Lunch is inside the price on some listings and bought at the stops on others
- Shared coach days run $45 to $152; a private day starts at $307
- The train pass is sold for 2 or 3 consecutive days, so it earns its price when you sleep in Hakone rather than day-trip it
The day, hour by hour
Out of Tokyo, over Owakudani, back by dark
Hold the date before the week fills up
Free cancellation runs to 24 hours on these tickets, so a booked date costs you nothing until the day before. In autumn and in cherry blossom season the early departures go first.
At the meeting point in Tokyo
Most of the coaches gather near Shinjuku in the early morning. You check in, hear the briefing and take your seat before the bus pulls out of the city.
Out of Tokyo towards the mountain
The expressway runs south-west and the buildings thin out. Mt. Fuji appears on the right long before the coach reaches the foot of it.
Mt. Fuji 5th Station
Halfway up the mountain by road, and the highest point a coach can reach. Some listings stop here; others swap it for the viewpoints at Oshino Hakkai or Arakurayama.
Owakudani and the ropeway
The cable car lifts out of the Hakone hills and crosses the Owakudani valley, where steam still rises from the ground below the cabins.
The cruise across Lake Ashi
A sightseeing ship crosses the lake past the red torii gate of Hakone Shrine standing in the water — the photograph most people came for.
Back to Tokyo — by road or by bullet train
The cheaper listings drive back the way they came. The ones with a Shinkansen return put you on a train at Odawara instead, and you are in Tokyo before the traffic clears.
Best time of day
Start early, and the mountain is still out
Two things pull against each other on this loop, and an early departure settles both. Mount Fuji is most often clear in the first hours after sunrise and tends to draw cloud across itself as the day warms up, which is the difference between a viewpoint with the mountain in it and one without. The same hour is when the ropeway queue at Owakudani and the pier on Lake Ashi are at their quietest. The other reason is arithmetic: the tours here run ten to twelve hours counted from the pickup, so a late start is a late return, and the listings that come home on the bullet train exist because the evening road back into Tokyo is slow. If you are staying in Hakone instead, the pass lets you ride the loop before the first coaches arrive.
On the day
What the day actually looks like
Lake Ashi
The ship crosses the lake past the torii of Hakone Shrine standing in the water.
The ropeway
The cable car over the Hakone hills, with the mountain across the valley.
The train home
Some listings put you on the Shinkansen at Odawara instead of the evening road.
The hot springs
What keeps people in Hakone overnight rather than turning round the same day.
What it's like
One mountain, one valley, and two completely different ways to see them
Almost everyone types the same words into the search box — Hakone ryokan — with the same picture in their head: a tatami room, a hot spring bath, dinner brought to the table and Mount Fuji somewhere out of the window. What nobody tells you before you start booking is that the room and the mountain are two separate purchases, they are sold by different people, and most visitors end up doing one of them in a single day from Tokyo.
The first thing on sale here is that day. A coach leaves Tokyo in the morning, climbs to a viewpoint on Mount Fuji or to the 5th Station itself, runs the ropeway over the Owakudani valley, puts you on the boat across Lake Ashi past the torii standing in the water, and has you back in the city by evening. These days run ten to twelve hours from pickup to drop-off and start at $55 out of Tokyo.
The second is the pass. The Hakone Train Pass covers unlimited rides on the local trains, buses, the ropeway and the boat for two or three days, at $45, plus discounts at the sightseeing places along the loop. It is the one item on this page that assumes you are sleeping in Hakone rather than going home the same night, and that is exactly who it suits.
That difference is what most people find out too late. A ryokan night and a day tour answer different questions. The ryokan is where the onsen, the kaiseki dinner and the quiet morning live; you book that with the inn. The tour is how you reach Owakudani, the lake and the mountain without renting a car or working out four changes of train. If you have one day, the tour is the whole trip. If you have two, the pass fills the second one.
Our top pick is the day that solves the way home: Mt Fuji 5th Station and the Hakone cruise with the bullet train back to Tokyo, ten hours, rated 4.4 across 5,333 reviews, at $152. The most reviewed listing on the page is the ten-hour Fuji, ropeway, Owakudani and Lake Ashi day at $55, which 8,054 travellers have rated. Between the nineteen tours here there are 21,920 reviews to read.
The fares stretch a long way at the top end, and it is worth knowing why. A seat on a shared coach is $50 to $152 depending on whether the 5th Station and the bullet train are in the ticket. A private day with a car and an English-speaking driver runs from $307 to $667, and that figure covers the car and the driver for the day rather than a seat on a coach.
Where the tour starts changes your day more than the route does. Twelve of the nineteen leave from Tokyo, mostly from Shinjuku, and two begin in Hakone itself — the pass and the day that pairs Owakudani with Enoshima. The rest are listed from Fujinomiya or Fujiyoshida, on the mountain side. A Hakone start means the travelling is already done; a Tokyo start means two hours of it sit at each end of your day.
These tours run all year, so the plan that works is the plain one. Decide first whether you are staying the night in Hakone or going back to Tokyo, because that alone rules out half the page. Check whether the ropeway, the boat and lunch are inside the fare or bought along the way. Then hold your date as soon as it is firm: every tour here has free cancellation.
If you are staying in Tokyo
The three most reviewed days out of the capital
Some of the listings on this page assume you are already in Hakone. These three leave from Tokyo in the morning, take in Mount Fuji, the ropeway over the Owakudani valley and the boat across Lake Ashi, then bring you back the same evening. They run ten hours from pickup to drop-off, and between them they carry more than ten thousand reviews.
Most reviewed from Tokyo
Tokyo: Mt. Fuji Tour, Hakone Ropeway, Owakudani, Lake Ashi
10 hours · ★ 4.6 (8 054)
$55See dates Bullet train home
From Tokyo: Mt. Fuji & Hakone Tour w/ Return by Bullet Train
10 hours · ★ 4.3 (1 689)
$115See dates Six stops in a day
Tokyo: Mt Fuji & Hakone 6 Spots Tour w/ Bullet Train
10 hours · ★ 4.3 (753)
$109See datesPractical
Plan the day
Five things decide how it goes: which of the nineteen you take, where in Tokyo it collects you, whether you are back the same night or staying, what you bring for a mountain that is colder than the city, and which month you come. The inn names people search by are specific — Gora Kadan Hakone ryokan, Ryokan Hakone Ginyu, Yoshiike Ryokan Hakone, Hakone Kowakien Mikawaya ryokan — and we do not book rooms at any of them. What we compare is the daylight half of the trip, and each listing is booked by date on GetYourGuide, with free cancellation to hold a day while the rest of the trip settles.
The cheapest full day
Mount Fuji, the Hakone ropeway, Owakudani and Lake Ashi in ten hours from Tokyo, from $55. Rated 4.6 across 8,054 reviews, more than anything else here.
Our top pick
The 5th Station and the Hakone cruise with the bullet train back to Tokyo, ten hours at $152. Rated 4.4 across 5,333 reviews, and the train saves the evening traffic.
The pass instead
The Hakone Train Pass at $45: unlimited rides on the local trains and buses for two or three days, with discounts at more than seventy places on the loop.
Ropeway and pirate ship
The ten-hour days built around the Hakone loop itself — the cable car over Owakudani and the boat across Lake Ashi to the torii gate — from $50.
Both sides of Fuji
One day that takes the north side at Arakurayama and Oshino Hakkai and the south side at Owakudani and Lake Ashi, at $50. Rated 4.8 across 549 reviews.
Your own car
A private day from Tokyo with a driver and a route you set, from $307, up to $667 with a guide for eleven hours.
A warm layer for the top
The ropeway station above Owakudani and the 5th Station are well above the city, and the air up there is several degrees colder than the morning you left in Tokyo.
Shoes you can walk a hill in
Owakudani, the Hakone shrine and the path down to the torii gate all involve steps and slopes, and the coach parks are rarely at the door.
Cash in small notes
The eggs at Owakudani, the lockers, the shrine and the small stops along the loop are easier with coins and small notes than with a card.
A camera with room on it
The torii on Lake Ashi, the pagoda at Arakurayama and the mountain from the 5th Station are the three pictures people come back with.
A towel if you plan an onsen
Some ryokan and day baths hand one out and some charge for it, so a small towel in the bag settles the question before you get there.
Patience for a long day
These days run ten to twelve hours counted from hotel pickup to drop-off, not from the time the coach reaches the mountain.
Decide day trip or overnight first
A tour brings you back to Tokyo the same evening; the pass assumes you are sleeping in Hakone. That single question rules out half of this page.
Free cancellation on every tour
Holding a date early costs you nothing on any of the nineteen, so book as soon as your dates in Tokyo are firm.
Read what the fare covers
The ropeway, the boat on Lake Ashi and lunch are inside some tickets and bought separately on others, and the listing says which before you pay.
Private means the car, not the seat
On the private listings the fare covers the car and the driver for the day, so it divides across everyone you bring instead of multiplying by them.
One price everywhere
Hotel desk, operator or this page — the fare is the same. Booking ahead buys the seat on the day you want, not a discount.
Check the meeting point
Some listings include hotel pickup in central Tokyo and others name a meeting point in Shinjuku, which can add an hour to the front of your day.
From Tokyo
Twelve of the nineteen start in Tokyo, mostly from Shinjuku, with either a named meeting point or pickup from selected hotels, and they return to the city in the evening.
From Hakone itself
Two are listed from Hakone — the train pass and the day that pairs Owakudani with Kamakura and Enoshima — which is the arrangement to look for if you are already staying there.
The bullet train back
Three of the coach days return to Tokyo on the Shinkansen instead of the motorway, which is the difference between arriving at dinner and arriving after it.
Around the loop on the pass
The pass covers the local trains, the buses, the ropeway and the boat, so the Hakone circuit can be done in either direction at your own pace over two or three days.
The 5th Station
The 5th Station is the highest point a road reaches on Mount Fuji, and the coach days that include it say so in the title; the others stop at viewpoints lower down.
Fujinomiya and Fujiyoshida
Five listings start on the mountain side rather than in the capital, which suits anyone already out that way and takes the drive from Tokyo out of the day.
Best time
When to come
Tours run all year, because the ropeway, the lake and the road up the mountain work in every season. What changes month to month is how often Fuji is actually out from behind cloud, how cold the top of the ropeway is, and how far ahead a Hakone ryokan room has to be held.
Oct – Nov
Autumn leaves, the clearest air
The half of the year Hakone is best known for: colour on the hillsides, cold clear mornings and the best odds of seeing the mountain from the lake. It is also the busiest, so the bullet train tours and the private cars go a week or two ahead of the date, and the inns go a good deal earlier than that.
Dec – Feb
Cold, quiet, and Fuji at its sharpest
Winter air is the driest of the year, which is exactly when the mountain shows itself most often. Dress for it: the top of the ropeway is a different climate from Tokyo. Fewer people on the ship and shorter queues at Owakudani are the reward.
Mar – May
Spring warmth, easy days out
Mild weather on both sides of the trip and the full list of nineteen sailing and driving. A good window if you want the twelve-hour day with the outlet stop without booking months out.
Jun – Sep
Warm and often cloudy
Summer is the green half of the year and the cheapest time to move around, but rain and low cloud are common and the mountain hides behind them for days at a time. Everything still runs; the ropeway and the lake are worth the day on their own. Hold the date with free cancellation and look at the forecast the evening before.
Worth knowing
Six things that aren't in the listing
01
There are two products here, not one. A ten to twelve-hour day out of Tokyo that brings you back the same evening, and a two or three-day pass that assumes you are sleeping in Hakone. They are sold under the same search words and they end in different cities, which decides more than the price does.
02
The ryokan and the tour are separate bookings. The onsen bath, the kaiseki dinner and the tatami room come from the inn; the coach, the ropeway and the boat come from the operator. Knowing that before you start saves you looking for one thing in the wrong place.
03
Where the tour starts changes the length of your day. Twelve of the nineteen leave from Tokyo and two from Hakone, with the rest listed from Fujinomiya or Fujiyoshida, so a start on the mountain side takes the drive out of your hours entirely.
04
The 5th Station is not on every listing. Some days drive up the mountain and say so in the title; the others stop at viewpoints lower down, at Oshino Hakkai or above Lake Kawaguchi. Read that line before you compare two prices.
05
Private is the car, not a seat. The private days from $307 to $667 cover the vehicle and the driver, so the fare splits across your party instead of multiplying by it, and the route is set with you.
06
Book the date, not the discount. The fare is the same wherever you buy it, and every tour on this page carries free cancellation, so holding a seat as soon as your dates are firm costs you nothing.
Round out the trip
Booked alongside
If you stay the night
Hakone: Train Pass with Unlimited Rides & Activity Discounts
2 or 3 days · ★ 4.3 (181)
$45View Highest rated day
Tokyo: Mt Fuji & Hakone Ropeway, Lake Ashi Cruise, Owakudani
1 day · ★ 4.9 (1 049)
$50View Private car and driver
Tokyo: Mt. Fuji & Hakone Private Custom Tour with an English Driver
10 - 11 hours · ★ 4.8 (773)
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Common questions
Hakone and Mount Fuji, answered
Can you see Hakone and Mount Fuji in one day from Tokyo?
That is what most of this page is: ten to twelve-hour days that leave Tokyo in the morning, take in a viewpoint on Mount Fuji or the 5th Station itself, the ropeway over Owakudani and the boat across Lake Ashi, and are back in the city by evening. The hours are counted from hotel pickup or the meeting point in Shinjuku, not from the moment the coach reaches the mountain, so the day is longer than the sightseeing in it.
How much does a Hakone day tour cost?
A seat on a shared coach from Tokyo starts at $55 for the ten-hour Fuji, ropeway, Owakudani and Lake Ashi day. The days that add the 5th Station and the bullet train home run $109 to $152, the Hakone Train Pass is $45, and a private car with a driver is $307 upwards.
Is it a day trip or a stay?
Both are sold here, and it is the first thing to settle. The tours are return trips: they start in Tokyo and end in Tokyo the same night. The pass is the opposite — two or three days of unlimited rides on the Hakone trains, buses, ropeway and boat, which only pays for itself if you are sleeping in the valley rather than going home.
What do the day tours actually stop at?
The usual run is Mount Fuji, either at a viewpoint or at the 5th Station where the road ends; the Hakone ropeway over the Owakudani valley with its steaming vents; the cruise across Lake Ashi to the torii gate of Hakone Shrine standing in the water; and on the longer listings Oshino Hakkai, Odawara Castle, the pagoda at Arakurayama or the outlet mall at Gotemba.
What is a ryokan, and is one included?
A ryokan is a traditional Japanese inn: tatami rooms, futons laid out at night, an onsen bath fed by the hot springs and a kaiseki dinner served course by course. It is booked with the inn, not with a tour operator, so none of the nineteen listings here include a night in one. What they include is the way round Hakone and up the mountain, which is the part that is hardest to arrange yourself.
Where do the tours leave from?
Twelve of the nineteen start in Tokyo, mostly from Shinjuku, with either a named meeting point or pickup from selected hotels. Two are listed from Hakone itself, and the rest from Fujinomiya or Fujiyoshida on the mountain side. On the private listings the pickup address is agreed with the operator when you book.
What is Owakudani like?
Owakudani is the valley the Hakone ropeway passes over, with steam rising from the ground and the smell of sulphur in the air, and the cable car is the way most visitors see it. Almost every coach day on this page runs that section, and the ropeway is covered by the Hakone Train Pass as well.
Shared coach or private car — which should you book?
They buy different days on the same loop. A shared coach is the reason the fares start at $55, and it follows a set timetable with everyone else aboard. A private booking covers the car and the driver rather than a seat, so it carries only your own party and the route is set with you — from $307 for a day with a driver to $667 for eleven hours with a guide.
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Hakone and Mount Fuji — the plan we'd follow
Which of the nineteen listings matches the days you actually have: the ten-hour run out of Tokyo, the version that comes home on the bullet train, the pass that only makes sense if you sleep in the valley, and the private car with a route of your own. Built from the operators’ own listings and the same live prices as this page.
- All nineteen tours and passes, with times and what each fare covers, from the listings
- Which days include the ropeway, the Lake Ashi cruise and lunch, and which are the coach alone
- The private days, and what the whole-car fare works out at for a group
- What a ryokan night adds if you stay, and which month to pick for the mountain
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Why trust this page
How we put this together
Checked, not guessed
Durations, inclusions and operator names come from the live GetYourGuide listings for each tour. Prices and ratings are read off the same listings and updated with the page.
How we pick
Every Hakone and Mount Fuji day tour and pass bookable from Tokyo and from Hakone itself is on this page. Nobody pays to be featured.
We say where the tour starts
Twelve of the nineteen leave from Tokyo and two from Hakone; the rest are listed from Fujinomiya or Fujiyoshida on the mountain side. That decides how much of your day is spent travelling, so we mark it on the card.
Tours and ryokan, stated plainly
A tour is a day out: the coach, the ropeway over Owakudani, the boat on Lake Ashi and back to Tokyo by night. A ryokan is a night in an inn with an onsen bath and a kaiseki dinner, booked with the inn itself. We explain the second because it is why people come to Hakone, and we sell the first because that is what is bookable here.
The answer
See the mountain and the valley in one day.
The tours on this page work the same loop between Tokyo, Mount Fuji and Hakone. What you are choosing is how much of it you get: ten hours by coach with the ropeway over Owakudani and the boat across Lake Ashi, the same day with the bullet train home, a pass that lets you ride the loop at your own pace, or a car with nobody else in it. Day tours from Tokyo start at $55. Pick a morning departure and book ahead.
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