Affiliate disclosure
The short version: some links here earn us a commission, you pay the same either way, and no operator pays to be featured.
Which links are affiliate links
Every "Check availability" button, and every in-text link that opens a product's listing, points to Klook, GetYourGuide or Viator for tickets and tours, or to Expedia for the four hotels named in a couple of guides, all reached through the Travelpayouts network, and each carries our partner tag. If you book after clicking one, the platform pays us a share of the commission it already earns from the seller. Your price is identical to the price you would see going straight to that listing, because our cut comes out of the platform's margin and is never added to what you pay.
That is the whole arrangement. The direct timed-entry ticket is sold through Klook, the guided walks through GetYourGuide, and the admission plus subway pass through Viator. A couple of guides also link a Tokyo Skytree ticket and a Mount Fuji day trip through the same GetYourGuide relationship, for readers who decide either belongs on the itinerary too, and four Shibuya hotels through Expedia, for readers who ask where to stay. There is no display advertising, no sponsored posts and no paid reviews, and no operator, hotel, restaurant or the city itself has paid for a mention. Nothing on this site earns us money from anyone except those four platforms, and only when a booking actually completes.
What it does not change
- Inclusion. Anything that clears the tests is here: a real, currently bookable product that genuinely includes entry to the deck, on a live product page an individual can buy today, with figures that survive being read twice. Seven options clear it. The ones held back were held back for stated reasons, not commercial ones: a twin listing selling the same night walk on a second platform at $154 rather than $89, which would have padded the lineup and split one product's reviews across two cards; an e-ticket with 22 reviews, no visible rating and a group price instead of a per-person one; a five-review product built around a different district entirely; and private full-day Tokyo tours from $192 that lead with the city rather than the rooftop.
- Ordering. No operator can buy a position and none has been offered one. The direct admission ticket leads the homepage because it is both the cheapest way up and the most-reviewed listing by a distance, at 4.7 across 45,800 reviews against the next-largest count of 252. Inside each section, position follows review count and price, a rule you can check yourself against the numbers on the cards.
- What we say about them. The cheapest route up is the operator's own web shop, which pays us nothing, and this site says so on the homepage and in the guides rather than steering past it. A 5.0 rating on five reviews is labelled as the thin base it is. A 4.3 stays 4.3. The non-refundable products are marked non-refundable, the two listings that publish no free-cancellation claim get none invented for them, and the rooftop's habit of closing in bad weather is stated on the pages where it might cost somebody a visit. None of that helps a booking along, and all of it stays.
- What we leave out. The lineup lists products that actually include deck entry, so free viewpoints, street-level walks and the crossing itself never appear as cards even where a paid alternative would earn more: they are covered as editorial. A listing whose figures could not be confirmed on two independent reads does not get a card either, and that rule has already cost this site a product it would otherwise have shown.
- Things we earn nothing from. The operator's own web shop sells the 2,700 yen daytime ticket and the 3,400 yen evening one, and pays us zero. The counter on the 14th floor sells the only child ticket there is, at 1,200 yen, and pays us zero. Tokyo's city hall observatory is free and pays us zero. Standing at the crossing, visiting the Hachiko statue and walking the district cost nothing at all. Every one of them still gets its say wherever it beats a paid option.
Ratings, review counts and prices
Every rating and review count on this site is the platform's own published number, read off the live listing and then read a second time on an independent pass before it was printed. Nothing is averaged across platforms, rounded up or invented, and where the two reads disagreed the figure was left off the page rather than smoothed over. The seven options carry 46,290 traveller reviews between them, and that total is the sum of the real per-listing counts. The largest listing is 4.7 across 45,800 reviews; the smallest bases in the lineup are five and six reviews, and both are labelled as such wherever they appear.
Prices are handled the same way and come with a bigger caveat. What you see is a current from-price, the cheapest option on that listing at the time it was read, agreeing across two channels. Per-person prices run $17.70 to $119. Rates move with the date, the entry time, the option you pick and the country you book from, so the live listing is always the authority on what you will actually be charged. A price that reads differently in two places usually means the platform is showing you a localised currency, not that the rate changed. The operator's own yen prices are a separate matter and are quoted only at the tiers it publishes: 2,700 yen online before 15:00, 3,400 from 15:00, 3,000 and 3,700 at the counter, 1,200 for an elementary-age child at the counter only, free under six.
The same rule covers policies. Cancellation terms, entry windows, meeting points and inclusions are the seller's own words from its own listing, not a house average. Tickets bought on the operator's web shop are non-refundable with no date change. The admission and subway combo is non-refundable. Four of the guided bookings cancel free up to 24 hours ahead, two publish no free-cancellation claim, and if any of that changes on a listing, the card changes with it.
If you would rather not use our links
Go to the operator's own site and buy the ticket there, at the counter or on its web shop, or search a tour's name on GetYourGuide or Viator directly. Every product on this site is findable by name in about ten seconds. We would genuinely rather you got up there on a clear evening than that you clicked anything. The comparisons, the yen arithmetic, the FAQ and the guides work exactly as well as research whether or not you ever use a booking link.
Questions about any of this: email us. How the listings are checked in the first place is on the about page.