Tokyo Skytree

There are two decks and three tickets. Tembo Deck at 350 metres is three floors of glass with a cafe, a restaurant and a section of glass floor. Tembo Galleria at 450 metres is a sloping spiral ramp that climbs to Sorakara Point at 451.2 metres. You can buy the Deck alone, or a combination ticket for both.

The honest assessment of the Galleria is that the extra hundred metres adds very little to the view and a great deal to the bill. Tokyo from 350 metres already extends past the horizon in every direction; the additional altitude does not reveal anything new, because there is nothing left to reveal. What the Galleria genuinely offers is the ramp itself, which is a good piece of architecture and almost empty compared with the deck below it. Pay for it if the engineering interests you. Do not pay for it expecting a better view.

If your object is a photograph of Tokyo with Mount Fuji in it, the variable is not the deck, it is the air. Fuji is visible from Skytree on clear dry days, most reliably from late autumn through winter and most reliably in the hour after opening. Summer afternoons almost never deliver it, at any price and from either floor.

Two adults on a Saturday, advance, Tembo Deck only: ¥4,600. Same pair turning up at the counter: ¥4,800 at best. Add the Galleria and you are meaningfully past ¥7,000 for a family of three. This is not a cheap hour.

It is worth knowing what the free and near-free alternatives actually give you, because they are not all the same. The Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center terrace, described on the Senso-ji page, is free and gives you Skytree in the view, which a ticket to Skytree by definition cannot. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building observatories in Shinjuku are also free and put you at 202 metres on the other side of the city. And Shibuya Sky, at ¥2,700 online before 15:00, is lower but open to the air.

Skytree wins on one thing and wins it decisively: range. At 350 metres on a clear day you can see the Boso peninsula, the Tama hills and, when the air cooperates, Fuji. Nothing free in Tokyo does that.

Opening is 10:00 with last admission at 20:00 and closing at 21:00, every day of the year. Sunset slots are the busiest and the web ticket system sells them first, which is another argument for booking the night before rather than the morning of.

The tower sits on top of Tokyo Solamachi, a three-hundred-shop mall with an aquarium and a planetarium in it. If the weather turns, you have not wasted the trip – but note that a cloudy day at 350 metres is a white wall, and unlike an open-air deck there is no weather refund because the deck is enclosed and stays open. Check the forecast before you commit to the advance ticket, because advance tickets are date-specific.

Skytree pairs naturally with Asakusa, one stop and a river apart, and with the Edo-Tokyo Museum at Ryogoku, which reopened in March 2026 and is fifteen minutes south.