Where a car takes you from Tokyo
These are the day trips from Tokyo on our own pages where a car earns its keep. Trains reach some of them; a car reaches all of them, on your own clock.
- Yokohama Chinatown (Chukagai) Yokohama Chinatown near Tokyo is Japan's largest Chinatown, with 600 shops and restaurants over a 500-metre district
- Kawagoe (Little Edo) Kawagoe in Saitama is the Edo-period 'Little Edo' town with 30 preserved warehouses, the Kashiya Yokocho candy alley, and sweet-potato ice cream and d
- Kamakura (shojin lunch and Daibutsu) Kamakura is the medieval temple town one hour south of Tokyo, with shojin Buddhist vegetarian lunches at Kencho-ji and the Komachi-dori snack street
- Hakone (ryokan kaiseki and onsen) Hakone in Kanagawa is the onsen ryokan town under Mount Fuji where the kaiseki dinner is the main event
- Mount Takao (Takaosan) Mount Takao west of Tokyo is the day-hike mountain where soba shops near the summit serve mountain-trail tororo soba
- Nikko yuba and shojin lunch Nikko in Tochigi is the world-heritage temple town two hours north of Tokyo
Booking a car in Tokyo
We compare through one partner rather than listing every broker. Desks sit at the airport and in town, and the headline rate below is theirs, not ours.
- From
- USD 35.86 a day
- Desks on site
- Alamo, Avis, Dollar, Enterprise, Europcar, National
- Pick up at
- Tokyo Haneda Airport · Tokyo Imperial Palace. Narita International Airport · Tokyo Shiomi Train Station · Tokyo Railway Station · Tokyo Otemachi Train Station · Tokyo Hachioji Railway Station
Rates are the partner's headline price at our last check (2026-10-02) and move with dates, car class and insurance. We earn a commission if you book, at no cost to you.