Bullet train
The hard part of a Mt Fuji day trip is not the mountain, it is the evening. Leave Hakone by coach at five and the expressway decides when you eat; leave by Shinkansen and the day ends at a known hour. Four listings on this site build a Mt Fuji day trip around that return, and the most booked of them, $152, carries 5,333 reviews at 4.4 and is our top pick across the whole site. This page sets out what each of the four covers, what the train actually saves you, and when the cheaper coach day is the better buy anyway.
Quick answer
The short answer. If the train home is what you are after, $152 is the listing to take: the Mount Fuji 5th Station, a cruise on Lake Ashi, lunch below the mountain and the bullet train back to Tokyo, rated 4.4 across 5,333 reviews and the most booked Mt Fuji day trip on this site. $115 does the same return with a meal included and Owakudani in the itinerary, and $109 packs six named stops into the day before the Shinkansen. If the evening does not matter to you, $55 covers similar ground by coach for far less. Free cancellation applies on all of them.
What the train buys
A Mt Fuji day trip out of the city runs ten hours or more, and the variable that nobody advertises is the evening return. The road back into Tokyo is the busiest stretch of the day, and a coach sitting in it is the reason a ten-hour listing sometimes feels like twelve. That is the whole argument for a Mt Fuji day trip that switches to rail for the last leg: the timetable stops being a guess.
$152 is the version most people book. The listing names the Mount Fuji 5th Station, a guide, a cruise on Lake Ashi, lunch at the foot of the mountain, and a return to Tokyo on the bullet train. It carries 5,333 reviews at 4.4, the second-largest review count on this site, and it is our top pick for that reason and no other. It is also the priciest of the group-bus days here, which is the honest trade: you are paying for the fifth station, the lunch and the seat on the train.
$115 approaches the same Mt Fuji day trip from a different angle. Its listing leads with Owakudani, the Ropeway and the Lake Ashi cruise, notes a meal included, and describes the Shinkansen return as a way to avoid traffic. At 4.3 across 1,689 reviews it is well tested, and it is cheaper than our top pick because it spends its day in Hakone rather than climbing to the fifth station.
$109 is the crowded one, in the good sense. Six stops are named — Oshino Hakkai, the Ropeway, Owakudani, the Lake Ashi cruise, Hakone Shrine and Odawara Castle — before the Shinkansen back. If you want the densest possible Mt Fuji day trip and do not mind moving every hour, that is it, at 4.3 across 753 reviews.
Compared
The last column is the operator’s own description, not ours. Order is by price.
| The day | Price here | How long | What the listing names |
|---|---|---|---|
| The coach dayFor comparison | $55 | 10 h | Hakone Shrine, Lake Ashi, Lake Yamanaka, Owakudani and a panoramic cable car |
| Six stops, then the trainThe fullest itinerary | $109 | 10 h | Oshino Hakkai, Ropeway, Owakudani, Lake Ashi, Hakone Shrine, Odawara Castle |
| Train back, meal includedA day spent in Hakone | $115 | 10 h | Owakudani, the Ropeway, a Lake Ashi cruise, a meal and a Shinkansen return |
| Fifth station, train optionalListed from Fujinomiya | $127 | 11 h | Mt. Fuji 5th Station, a Lake Ashi cruise and a cable car ride over Hakone |
| Our top pick5,333 reviews behind it | $152 | 10 h | Mt. Fuji 5th Station, Lake Ashi cruise, lunch below Fuji, bullet train back |
Reading the listings
Search for this and you will meet the same four listings wearing different titles. People type ‘mt Fuji tour from Tokyo bullet train’ into the box and get them; people type the words the other way round and get them too. So it helps to know what genuinely separates them, rather than which wording an operator chose.
The first divider is the fifth station. A Mt Fuji day trip either climbs the mountain road or it does not. $152 and $127 both name the 5th Station; $115 and $109 stay in Hakone and spend the saved hours on stops. A Mt Fuji bullet train tour that skips the climb is not a lesser day, it is a different one — more valley, less altitude.
The second divider is where the day starts. $127 is listed from Fujinomiya and runs eleven hours, with the train presented as an option rather than as the default. The other three are listed from Tokyo. If you are reading a Mount Fuji bullet train tour page and cannot work out where to stand in the morning, that is the field to check first, because it changes your alarm clock more than any other detail.
The third divider is food. $152 names lunch at the foot of the mountain; $115 states a meal is included; the other two say nothing about it, which means budget for a stop. None of that changes the shape of a Mt Fuji day trip much, but it changes what you carry.
And the fourth is the one people forget: a bullet train tour to Mt Fuji does not ride the Shinkansen all day. The train is the last leg, from the Odawara end back into Tokyo. The outbound journey and everything between the stops is a coach, on every one of these four listings.
Who it fits
Straight recommendations from the listings on this site, all of which carry free cancellation if the plan changes.
$152 is our top pick with 5,333 reviews at 4.4: fifth station, Lake Ashi cruise, lunch below the mountain, bullet train back.
$115 includes a meal and returns by Shinkansen, at 4.3 across 1,689 reviews, with Owakudani and the Ropeway in the day.
$109 names six stops before the train home, from Oshino Hakkai to Odawara Castle.
$127 runs eleven hours and names the 5th Station and the cruise; $92 gives twelve hours and adds Gotemba.
Take the coach. $55 is the lowest full-day fare here and the most reviewed listing on the site at 8,054 reviews.
$309 is a private car with an English-speaking driver and an itinerary you set, rated 4.8 across 773 reviews.
If a fixed departure is the part you do not want, the private days are the other answer: your own car, your own driver, and the price at which that starts to make sense.
See the private Fuji and Hakone days→Every trip, current fare
The whole shelf on one scale, from the lowest price upward, with the cost per hour and the review history behind each one.
| Tour | Length | Price | What the listing includes | Cost per hour | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hakone: Train Pass with Unlimited Rides & Activity DiscountsThe pass, if you stay the night | 2 days | $45 | Unlimited local trains and buses for 2 or 3 days, discounts at over 70 sights | $0.94 | 4.3 · 181 |
| Tokyo: Mt Fuji & Hakone Ropeway, Lake Ashi Cruise, OwakudaniBest rated day on the site — 4.9 | 1 day | $50 | Hakone Shrine, the pirate ship on Lake Ashi, the Ropeway, Owakudani, Swan Beach | $5.00 | 4.9 · 1,049 |
| Mt. Fuji & Hakone Tour: Arakurayama, Oshino Hakkai, OwakudaniTwo sides of Fuji in one day | 10 h | $50 | Arakurayama pagoda view, Oshino Hakkai, Lake Ashi cruise, Ropeway, Owakudani | $5.00 | 4.8 · 549 |
| Tokyo: Hakone & Enoshima Tour, Owakudani Ropeway, Mt Fuji ViewHakone plus the coast at Enoshima | 10 h | $50 | Lake Ashi pirate ship, Ropeway over Owakudani, Enoshima beaches and seafood | $5.00 | 4.8 · 114 |
| Tokyo: Mt. Fuji Tour, Hakone Ropeway, Owakudani, Lake AshiLowest fare for a full day out | 10 h | $55 | Hakone Shrine, Lake Ashi, Lake Yamanaka, Owakudani and a panoramic cable car | $5.50 | 4.6 · 8,054 |
| Mt. Fuji & Hakone Day Tour with Lake Ashi Cruise and RopewayRopeway, lake and Oshino Hakkai | 10 h | $66 | Ropeway over the valley, Oshino Hakkai, pirate ship, the torii gate in the water | $6.60 | 4.7 · 133 |
| Tokyo: Mt. Fuji Cruise & Hakone Ropeway Day Trip by BusBuilt around the cruise and the torii | 10 h | $85 | A scenic cruise with Mt. Fuji in view and the torii gate photo stop | $8.50 | 4.8 · 109 |
| Tokyo: Mt. Fuji 5th Station, Gotemba & Hakone by Luxury BusTwelve hours, Gotemba included | 12 h | $92 | Mt. Fuji 5th Station, Gotemba, the cable car and the cruise, wheelchair accessible | $7.67 | 4.4 · 91 |
| Tokyo: Mt Fuji & Hakone 6 Spots Tour w/ Bullet TrainSix stops and the Shinkansen back | 10 h | $109 | Oshino Hakkai, Ropeway, Owakudani, Lake Ashi, Hakone Shrine, Odawara Castle | $10.90 | 4.3 · 753 |
| From Tokyo: Mt. Fuji & Hakone Tour w/ Return by Bullet TrainShinkansen back, a meal included | 10 h | $115 | Owakudani, the Ropeway, a Lake Ashi cruise, a meal, Shinkansen back to Tokyo | $11.50 | 4.3 · 1,689 |
| Tokyo: Mt. Fuji 5th Station & Hakone Cruise 1-Day Bus TourEleven hours, starts at Fujinomiya | 11 h | $127 | Mt. Fuji 5th Station, a Lake Ashi cruise and a cable car ride over Hakone | $11.55 | 4.3 · 2,416 |
| Tokyo Mt Fuji 5th Station & Hakone Cruise Bus Tour w/Bullet TrainOur top pick — 5,333 reviews | 10 h | $152 | Mt. Fuji 5th Station, Lake Ashi cruise, lunch below Fuji, bullet train back | $15.20 | 4.4 · 5,333 |
| Tokyo: Mt. Fuji and Hakone Day Tour, Lake Kawaguchiko, ArakurayamaPrivate, with the Chureito pagoda | 10 h | $307 | Chureito Pagoda, Lake Kawaguchi, Oshino Hakkai; Route B adds Hakone | $30.70 | 4.9 · 170 |
| Tokyo: Mt. Fuji & Hakone Private Custom Tour with an English DriverPrivate car, most reviewed of them | 10–11 h | $309 | A private car with an English-speaking driver and an itinerary you set | $29.43 | 4.8 · 773 |
| From Tokyo: Private Tour to Fuji/Hakone - Onsen, Art, NaturePrivate day with an onsen stop | 10 h | $318 | Quieter viewpoints, Lake Ashi, Hakone Shrine and time in an onsen | $31.80 | 5 · 147 |
| Tokyo: Private Mount Fuji & Hakone Customizable TourPrivate car, hotel pickup included | 10 h | $339 | A professional English-speaking driver and hotel pickup, route up to you | $33.90 | 4.9 · 129 |
| Tokyo to Mt. Fuji & Hakone: Private Customizable Day TourPrivate luxury car, up to 12 hours | 10–12 h | $394 | A private luxury car with your own driver, wheelchair accessible | $35.82 | 4.9 · 84 |
| From Tokyo: Private Mt. Fuji and Hakone Tour by CarPrivate car with Gotemba Outlets | 10 h | $476 | Yamanakako, Owakudani, Lake Ashi, Hakone Shrine, Gotemba Outlets, 5th Station optional | $47.60 | 4.9 · 63 |
| Tokyo: Mount Fuji & Hakone Private Tour with GuideA guide as well as a driver | 11 h | $667 | A private day with a guide as well as a driver, pickup included | $60.64 | 4.9 · 83 |
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Our top pick with the train back, the version with a meal, the six-stop day, the eleven-hour fifth-station run, the coach day that undercuts them all, and the longest day on the shelf.
★ 4.4 · 5,333 reviews
★ 4.3 · 1,689 reviews
★ 4.3 · 753 reviews
★ 4.3 · 2,416 reviews
★ 4.6 · 8,054 reviews
★ 4.4 · 91 reviews
Common questions
$152, with 5,333 reviews at 4.4. The listing names the Mount Fuji 5th Station, a cruise on Lake Ashi, lunch at the foot of the mountain and the bullet train back to Tokyo.
No. On these listings the train is the return leg into Tokyo; the outbound journey and the travel between stops is by coach.
It buys a predictable evening rather than extra sightseeing. If your night is free, $55 covers similar ground by coach for less and has more reviews than any other listing here.
No — only some listings climb the mountain road. $152 and $127 name the 5th Station; $115 and $109 spend the day in Hakone instead.
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★ 4.4 · 5,333 reviews · Free cancellation 24 h