【Tokyo】Best Bang for the Buck! Five Recommended Summer Day Tours on Buses

Six Tohoku Summer Festivals in Sendai: Diverse Tohoku Connected by One Kizuna (bond) is a bus tour to see a huge event where six of the Tohoku Region's major summer festivals are held in one location (13,900 JPY per adult. *Meals not included)

This is a very efficient tour where you can take a day trip to the Tohoku Region and have five full hours to enjoy festivals such as Aomori Nebuta Matsuri, Akita Kanto Matsuri, Morioka Sansa Odori, Yamagata Hanagasa Matsuri, Sendai Tanabata Matsuri, and Fukushima Waraji Matsuri. You'll have an exciting time at these powerful matsuri festivals.

You can take a bus with a bathroom on-board to see the Sawara Float Festival, which is one of the Kanto region's three great float festivals and is registered as an important intangible folk cultural asset by the Japanese government. Enjoy lunch at Kawatoyo, a famous unagi restaurant in Narita, and see the dazzling float parade. UNESCO World Intangible Cultural Heritage - Sawara Float Festival (8,990 JPY per adult *includes meal). Savor unagi eel at the famous Narita restaurant, Kawatoyo. Includes a visit to Narita-san Shinsho-ji, shopping, and eating various Sawara sweets.

Lake Kawaguchi Herb Festival and Bottomless Peaches and Melons (3,990 JPY per adult, 9,580 JPY on weekends) is a tour that includes a visit to the popular early summer event, Lake Kawaguchi Herb Festival and all-you-can-eat fruit. Get invigorated by the healing powers of the fields of lavender that spread out on the lake shore, as well as of flowers such as begonias and petunias. Your tummy will be happy too with a French-style lunch, all-you-can-eat peaches and melons, and wine tasting.