Tokyo and Yokohama Cruise Port Rental Cars: Which Berth, Which Desk

The berth on your ticket sets the drive back to a desk, so pin it down first.

Tokyo’s terminal is on Aomi, in Koto-ku. The Yurikamome’s terminal station is about eight minutes away on foot — easy without a car, and the terminal’s own lot is for 15-minute drop-off only.

Osanbashi, in Yokohama, has a 400-space car park that prints its rates, and a five-minute walk to Nihon-odori Station.

Daikoku Pier is the reverse: no station you can walk to, and the city lists Motomachi-Chukagai, about 15 minutes away by taxi.

That makes five names around the bay — Tokyo’s Aomi terminal and the reopened Harumi, then Osanbashi, Daikoku and Shinko Pier in Yokohama. Our Tokyo guide calls four of them main and Shinko the fifth, and we found no line tied to Shinko.

The only line-to-terminal pairing we read outright is Royal Caribbean’s FAQ, which sends drivers to Daikoku.

Your boarding documents name the berth — check them a week out, before you price a single desk.

The Tokyo guide has the lines in full, and the parking page covers driving your own car in.

Kawaguchiko sets the scale. From Osanbashi it’s 72.8 miles and about 1 hr 46 min on empty roads, so the round trip is 3 hr 32 min behind the wheel — before a single jam or photo stop.

So we’d treat Fuji as a before-or-after-the-ship day, not a port-call one. From Tokyo’s terminal the round trip is 3 hr 42 min.

Price the day at an assumed ¥8,000 and the pump box’s ¥171 a litre. The 146-mile round trip burns about ¥3,150 (about US$20) of fuel at 30 mpg, our assumption, and the day runs about ¥11,100 (about US$70) before tolls, parking and the ETC card. We read no price for the Fuji run itself.

The Metropolitan Expressway is the one toll we can price.

From Oct 1, 2026 its rate for ordinary cars rose from 29.52 to 32.472 yen a kilometre. The ¥300 base fare stays, and charging stops at 55.0 km. At the cap that’s about ¥2,086 — our arithmetic from the operator’s figures, since the page doesn’t say whether ETC and cash differ.

For scale, JNTO prints about ¥10,070 in tolls from Tokyo to Kyoto. We found nothing for Hakone or the Fuji Five Lakes.

Toyota rents an ETC card for ¥550 a rental, tax included, with the toll amounts on top. Nippon’s guide gives no ETC price.

Mt. Fuji’s Subaru Line, the road to the 5th Station, is closed to private cars in the summer climbing season, early July to Sept 10. Check the Yamanashi dates for your year.

Drivers park at Fujisan Parking near the Fujiyoshida interchange and take a shuttle. The 2026 season has ended, so Oct 5 sits outside the window, and we read no toll amount for the Subaru Line.

Hakone has a rail answer: Odakyu’s two-day Freepass from Shinjuku is ¥7,100 for an adult, with no three-day option listed. We haven’t priced the Hakone Turnpike or the whole train day — so we can’t say which wins, and won’t guess.

Kamakura’s Great Buddha costs ¥300 and says there is no parking on site. We didn’t research the trains — but park near the station and walk, or skip the car for this one.

Nikko is 2 hr 22 min each way from Tokyo’s terminal, nearly five hours of driving for a ¥1,600 shrine ticket. Leave it for a land stay.

If you’d rather not drive any of it, the shore excursion guide covers the guided versions of all four.

Nippon Rent-A-Car is most of what we could read: seven offices, from Haneda to the Marunouchi basement. It keeps the longest hours on the list, and its pages say plainly who takes a car back, not only who rents one.

Toyota’s airport counters sit in the arrival halls, but the cars are at a shop a shuttle ride away — and Toyota’s own page says direct airport returns are unavailable.

The airport page walks through that handover.

The Tokyo Station card stands in for four of Toyota’s ten shops, the four we opened. Some classes aren’t offered at some of them.

Times is the odd one out. Its Japanese page lists three Haneda points, yet its English page says a Japanese licence is required. We couldn’t square the two — so ask Times in writing; Toyota and Nippon take the 1949 permit.

Discover Cars shows other names, though only as a marketplace. At Narita it lists Relax Rent A Car, IX Rental, EASYCAR, Sakura and WheeGo. Most offer meet-and-greet or a free shuttle — Relax said its staff may wait up to about 60 minutes.

In Yokohama it lists Alamo, Enterprise and National, with pickups mostly at the Yokohama Prince Hotel Shin or the station.

We read no hours for those suppliers, and no after-hours return wording for any desk.

The checker opens on a Sunday at 8:30 PM, a plausible hour for a flight to land and a poor one for a rental.

Three listings are still open then: Nippon’s Haneda and Yokohama Station offices and its Yaesu South Exit one. Yaesu closes in half an hour and takes no drop-offs, so for a car going back the count is two.

The Toyota counters and Nippon’s Narita office have shut by 8 PM, and Narita’s last pickup is 8 PM sharp.

Marunouchi is closed on weekends and public holidays. The checker doesn’t know Japan’s holiday calendar, so a Monday holiday reads as open when it isn’t.

Slide the clock back to 6 PM and Toyota and the other Nippon offices return. If your flight lands late, pick a desk that stays open until 9 or 10, not one that shuts at 8.

Nippon’s guide says one-way hire is “free if the distance between locations is less than 20km”. Change the return place after the rental starts and a handling fee applies — ¥3,300 for a passenger car, ¥5,500 for a wagon or van and ¥6,600 for a truck, tax included.

Haneda to Osanbashi measures 20.3 km on our routing, right on Nippon’s line. We don’t know whether Nippon counts road distance or straight-line — so ask for a quote on that exact pair.

Toyota’s one-way table lists ¥2,200 each for the inner 23 wards and the Yokohama area.

It wants an advance application and excludes some cars and shops.

The summary we read didn’t show whether that’s a Tokyo-to-Yokohama price. Don’t bank on it.

Read it practically: Yokohama Station is where a car most plausibly finishes; central Tokyo is where it starts. A pickup at Shinagawa or Tokyo Station needs a different ending — a car has to be returned, not abandoned.

Our one-way fees guide shows how Discover Cars displays the charge.

At Osanbashi the ground-floor lot holds 400 cars and never closes. It charges ¥500 for the first hour, then ¥250 per 30 minutes, capped at ¥1,500 (US$9) a day on weekdays and ¥2,000 (US$13) on weekends and holidays. Boarding passengers pay ¥1,000 (US$6) for 24 hours with a boarding pass, for sailings up to 31 days.

At Aomi the terminal’s own lot is for 15-minute drop-off only. Tokyo’s Second Parking Lot has 84 spaces, first come, no booking, at ¥500 for the first hour and ¥100 per 30 minutes, capped at ¥1,000 (US$6) on weekdays and ¥1,600 (US$10) on weekends.

Harumi doesn’t allow cruise parking, and ship-day entry needs a booking made by 4 pm the day before. Daikoku needs a reservation — phone the Yokohama Port Promotion Association on 045-671-7241 for the price.

For scale, here’s a neighbour’s rate: Times in Minatomirai.

One lot charges ¥300 per 30 minutes with a ¥1,800 daily maximum, and another ¥330 per 30 with a ¥1,870 maximum. A week at the lower cap is ¥12,600 (about US$80) — not a terminal’s rate. We found no Tokyo coin-parking rate.

Now set that beside a week of an assumed ¥8,000 rental: ¥56,000 (about US$350) before parking. Hand the car back before you board instead of parking it. If you’re driving your own car, the parking page has the terminal detail.

Dollar figures use the European Central Bank reference rates of Oct 5, 2026 (about 0.63 US cents to the yen, or about $63 per ¥10,000); your card’s rate will differ.

Skip this section if the car-or-no-car page sent you to the train. Otherwise, search with the pickup that matches the clock you’ll arrive on, then check that desk’s closing time above.

Discover Cars’ Tokyo page said from $18.52 a day on Oct 5, 2026, averaging about $54.

Haneda started at $29.50 and Narita at $14.10. Its Yokohama page said from $35.27 for a Honda Fit and flagged October as the peak month, at about $115 a day on average. Every price carried a bare $ sign — we couldn’t tell whether tax is inside.

Use the Yokohama search if you’ll finish in Yokohama — the Tokyo page covers Haneda and the central offices. Our Discover Cars review covers deposits and the coverage add-on.