Good with caveats. Worth it for Rakuten Points collectors and a couple of rickshaw deals, but its Hanayashiki ticket has no price advantage and some listing text is stale.
Good fortune
- Prices in yen, with Rakuten Points on every booking
- Large Ueno–Asakusa inventory
- Sells a Hanayashiki free-pass ticket with same-day booking
- A Rakuten-only discount on one rickshaw company
Tie it to the rack
- Hanayashiki ticket costs the same as the official store
- Stale text on some listings
- Headline discounts can overstate the real saving
- No independent review profile to check
At Senso-ji you tie a bad fortune to the rack and leave it behind. We use the same scale for our verdicts.
Rakuten Travel Experiences is the experiences shop of Rakuten, the Japanese e-commerce group, and it behaves like a Japanese company: prices in yen, Rakuten Points on every booking, and plenty of small local operators you won't find on the global platforms. For Asakusa it is a reasonable place to look, especially if you already have a Rakuten account. It is not our partner, and it isn't where we would send a first-time visitor, but it has a few genuinely useful listings.
Where it came from
The platform started life as FindJPN and was relaunched as Voyagin. Rakuten took a majority stake in July 2015, later folded it into the group, and eventually renamed it Rakuten Travel Experiences. If you see old blog posts recommending Voyagin for Japan, this is the same business.
The inventory is broad. Rakuten's "Ueno, Asakusa, Kinshicho, Shin-Koiwa, Kita-Senju" area held 254 results when we checked. That area is wider than Asakusa itself, so expect Ueno museums and east-Tokyo experiences in the mix.
For a sense of what the global platforms offer in the same streets, these are the most-booked Asakusa experiences on our partner sites, with live prices:
Prices are the lowest option the platform shows, in US dollars, and move with dates and exchange rates. The booking page is final. Prices checked: September 28, 2026.
The Hanayashiki ticket
Rakuten is one of the few places outside the park that sells Hanayashiki entry, and its listing was the second card in the Asakusa area by default sort. The product is "Admission Ticket + Free Pass (Unlimited Rides)", with same-day booking and instant confirmation.
Here is the honest comparison:
| Rakuten listing | Official web store | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | Admission plus unlimited-ride pass | Admission plus unlimited-ride pass (one-day pass) |
| Price shown | Same as the official one-day pass on the listing card | ¥4,600 |
| Same-day purchase | Yes | Yes |
| Cancellation | Through Rakuten | Self-service until 23:59 the day before |
| Extra | Rakuten Points | — |
The product page itself showed a lower default total than the card when we checked, and we could not tell which option that figure applied to, so look closely at what the total covers before you pay. Also note the unlimited-ride pass does not cover cash-only attractions inside the park, whichever seller you use. If the points don't matter to you, the park's own store is simpler; our Hanayashiki guide and the official channel review explain the ticket types and the rides worth paying for.
One more wrinkle: the listing still promotes a New Year countdown event by linking to an edition that is long over. We found no current countdown product on Rakuten.
Rickshaws: the best reason to use it
Rakuten has three rickshaw offers in Asakusa worth knowing about. Ebisuya, one of the best-known operators in town, sells an "East–West Asakusa" 30-minute charter listed from ¥9,000, which matches its own one-rider fare for 30 minutes at the stand. Fukurouya offers a 10% discount available only through Rakuten. And there is a general Asakusa rickshaw experience listing.
The Fukurouya discount is the one concrete deal we found on Rakuten that you can't get on GetYourGuide or Klook. If you have already decided on a rickshaw and don't mind which company pulls it, it is worth a look. For how rides work and what they cost when you simply walk up to a puller, read our rickshaw guide and the Ebisuya review.
If you would rather have free cancellation, which matters a lot for something this weather-dependent, these are the rides we would book; most GetYourGuide rickshaw listings allow it up to 24 hours before, and Klook shows its terms on each listing:
Prices are the lowest option the platform shows, in US dollars, and move with dates and exchange rates. The booking page is final. Prices checked: September 28, 2026.
Read the discount badges carefully
Rakuten likes big headline discounts. On listings we examined elsewhere in Tokyo, a "Super Sale 30% OFF" banner turned out to hide a real saving of around 8%, and a "compared with the on-site price" figure was out of date. That is not unique to Rakuten, but it happens often enough here that you should compare the final price with the operator's own site before you trust the badge.
Also on the Asakusa list: a "Sumo Restaurant Tokyo: Lunch or Dinner" card. Before booking, check the address and operator; the best-known sumo dinner show in Asakusa is the Asakusa Sumo Club, and our review of it tells you what it includes. On the global platforms it looks like this:
Same experience, two platforms
Tokyo: Sumo Entertainment Show with Chicken Hot Pot & Geisha
from US$101.75
★ 4.88,441 reviewssame priceView on GetYourGuide →Asakusa Sumo Club: sumo show with chicken chanko hot pot
from US$101.75
★ 4.81,641 reviewssame priceView on Klook →A quick checklist before you pay
Rakuten's checkout is straightforward, but a few habits save trouble:
- Match the total to the option. On the Hanayashiki listing the card and the product page showed different figures. Open the option list and make sure the total is for the ticket type and number of people you want.
- Read the cancellation line. It varies by operator, and a rickshaw or boat trip is only worth pre-booking if you can cancel when it rains.
- Compare with the operator's own site. Many Asakusa operators, from rickshaw companies to the park itself, sell direct in English. If the price is the same, the direct booking is usually easier to change.
- Remember you pay in yen. Your card issuer sets the exchange rate, so the amount on your statement may differ slightly from what you expected.
Trust and support
Rakuten is one of Japan's largest companies, so the platform is not going to vanish with your money. That said, there is no Trustpilot profile for the experiences site, so you have little independent evidence of how it handles complaints from overseas visitors.
Who should use it
- Rakuten Points collectors. Earning and spending points on experiences is the main advantage.
- Rickshaw shoppers who want the Fukurouya discount.
- Residents of Japan used to yen checkout and Japanese-style listings.
Everyone else will find more choice, clearer cancellation terms and more reviews on our partner platforms. Our GetYourGuide review explains why it's our first stop for Asakusa, and the KKday review covers the other Asian platform that sells Hanayashiki.