Day trips, city by city. The honest version.

The Chureito Pagoda with Mount Fuji behind

Half the planet on one page: the cities we cover from Tokyo to Cape Town to Sydney, each with its own site. The day trips out here run on trains that leave to the second, buses that leave when they leave, and seasons that decide more than schedules do — the pages below sort out which is which.

Serious Day Tour Man saysEvery city and day trip below goes to a page that tells it straight: real prices, real timetables, the traps named. Paris is where we practice what we publish — twenty-plus years of small groups. Start at paris.day.tours or LinkParis.com directly.About Serious Day Tour Man

Japan

TokyoNikko, Hakone KyotoUji, Himeji OsakaKoyasan, Himeji

East Asia

SeoulSuwon Hwaseong, Bukhansan Hong KongLamma Island, the Geopark TaipeiJiufen, Taroko’s reopening

Southeast Asia

The prangs of Wat Chaiwatthanaram at Ayutthaya at dusk

BangkokAyutthaya, the River Kwai SingaporePulau Ubin, Gardens by the Bay

The Middle East

DubaiHatta, Abu Dhabi Tel AvivMasada, Jerusalem

Africa

MarrakechImlil, Aït Benhaddou Cape TownTable Mountain, the Winelands, Robben Island

Australia and New Zealand

The Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge

SydneyThe Blue Mountains, Figure Eight Pools MelbourneThe Penguin Parade, Puffing Billy AucklandRotorua, Waiheke

The day-trip pages

Each of these is a full page in the same format: what it costs, how the tickets actually work, the one mistake that ruins the day, and when to skip it entirely.

Nikko from Tokyo
Hakone from Tokyo
Uji from Kyoto
Koyasan from Osaka
Suwon Hwaseong from Seoul
Lamma Island from Hong Kong
Jiufen and the Pingxi Line from Taipei
Ayutthaya from Bangkok
Hatta from Dubai
Imlil from Marrakech
The Blue Mountains from Sydney

More cities

Beijing Mumbai Phuket Queensland Jerusalem Cairo Casablanca Nairobi Johannesburg

What is day.tours?

day.tours is a network of city guides for people planning day trips. Every city above has its own site: which trips fill a day well, what the tickets really cost, and when the famous thing can be skipped. Nobody pays for placement here and nothing is sponsored. Paris is the exception in one direction only — those tours are ours, run since 2002 as LinkParis.