Tokyo in April (2027): Weather, Cherry Blossoms, Prices & Best Things to Do

⭐ Best April window: Sunday, April 25 to Thursday, April 29. Those nights had the lowest typical hotel rates of the month in our sample, $161 to $166, the azaleas at Nezu Shrine are usually out, and the busy Golden Week holidays have not quite begun. For blossom, come in the first week instead and pay more.

💰 April 2027 hotel prices (central Tokyo, 3 to 5 stars, in US dollars):
April 1 to 11: Sunday to Thursday nights ~$212–273/night · Friday nights ~$245–275/night · Saturday nights ~$274–297/night
April 12 to 28: Sunday to Thursday nights ~$161–212/night · Friday nights ~$202–222/night · Saturday nights ~$236–259/night · April 29 (Showa Day) ~$166 · April 30 ~$176
So many hotels had no room on some April nights that a simple median would swing with whichever hotels were left, so for April we compared each hotel's nightly rate with its own April median, took the middle of those ratios each night and scaled it to the typical hotel's April rate of $212. The sample is the 326 hotels in Shinjuku, Shibuya, Ginza and Tokyo Station, Asakusa, Ueno and Roppongi and Akasaka that quoted on at least 70% of the nights from April 1 to 30, 2027 (two adults, one night, before taxes, pulled November 3, 2026). Individual hotels range far wider.

Planning Tokyo for April 2027? It is Tokyo's most comfortable month for sightseeing on foot. The long-term normals give the city 133.7 mm of rain on about 9 or 10 days, afternoons of 19.4°C (67°F) and nights of 9.8°C (50°F), with about 179 hours of sunshine, and the evenings stay light until about 6:15 pm. The weather figures on this page are climate normals; the hotel prices, tour schedules and event dates are for April 2027 specifically.

April has two halves. The first week or so is the tail of the cherry blossom season, when the trees are in full flower or shedding their petals, the parks are busy and hotels are both expensive and hard to find. From about mid-month the city settles: the azaleas come out, rates fall, and by the last week of April they are some of the most reasonable of the spring, just before the Golden Week holidays from April 29 to May 5.

In our view, the second half of April is the better-value spring trip, and the first week is worth it only if the blossoms are the point. We'd plan outdoor days, a bike ride or a long walk, for any dry day this month; the weather is as good as Tokyo gets.

• Best dates: April 25 to 29 for value and the azaleas; April 1 to 7 for the last of the blossom.
• Avoid if possible: booking late for the first ten days of April, when many hotels sell out, and arriving on May 1, when Golden Week travel peaks.
• Best for: walkers, cyclists, garden lovers and families.

Temperature, rainfall, rain-day and sunshine figures are the World Meteorological Organization's 1991 to 2020 climate normals for the Japan Meteorological Agency's Tokyo station (WMO 47662), published by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. Humidity and cloud cover are the Japan Meteorological Agency's own normals for the same station.

Temperature

Afternoons average 19.4°C (67°F) and nights 9.8°C (50°F), about 5°C warmer than March. Late April can bring the first days in the mid-20s, while early-April evenings are still cool enough for a jacket. Most guests find that a light jacket and layers cover the month.

Rain Pattern

April gets 133.7 mm of rain on about 9 or 10 days with at least 1 mm, a little more than March's 116.0 mm and a little less than May's 139.7 mm. Rain comes with passing spring fronts, usually as a wet day followed by a dry one, rather than the long rainy spells of June.

Sky and Daylight

Spring haze means average cloud cover of 6.7 tenths, so Mt Fuji is seen from the city less often than in winter. Sunshine is still about 179 hours, and the days are long: sunrise moves from about 5:28 am to 4:50 am and sunset from 6:01 pm to 6:26 pm.

We priced the 3- to 5-star hotels with at least 200 reviews in Shinjuku, Shibuya, Ginza and Tokyo Station, Asakusa, Ueno and Roppongi and Akasaka for every night from April 1 to May 1, 2027, and kept the 326 that quoted on at least 70% of April's nights. Because many hotels had no room on some nights, each figure below is the typical rate after comparing every hotel with its own April median, as explained in the price box above. All prices are in US dollars for two adults, before taxes.

• April 1 to 4: the end of blossom week, $273 on Thursday, April 1, $275 on Friday and $297 on Saturday, April 3, the dearest night of the month, then $227 on Sunday.
• April 5 to 11: $225 to $241 from Monday to Thursday, $245 on Friday, $274 on Saturday and $212 on Sunday. On Saturday, April 10, 28% of the hotels returned no rate.
• April 12 to 18: $212 from Monday to Thursday, $222 on Friday, $259 on Saturday and $191 on Sunday. April 14 was the tightest night of the month, with 40% of the hotels returning no rate.
• April 19 to 24: $188 to $201 from Monday to Thursday, $202 on Friday and $236 on Saturday.
• April 25 to 30: the lowest nights of the month, $161 to $166 from Sunday to Thursday, including $166 on Showa Day, April 29, then $176 on Friday, April 30. May 1, the first Saturday of Golden Week, had fewer hotels quoting again.

Most people don't realize how fast April gets cheaper. Hotel by hotel, the same hotels' quotes for Wednesday, March 10, 2027 were a median 19% below their mid-April average, for Wednesday, May 19 about 8% below and for Thursday, July 15 about 23% below, while Wednesday, November 18, 2026 was 24% above. Areas differ too: the median hotel in Ueno was about $150 a night in April, in Asakusa $172, Roppongi and Akasaka $218, Shinjuku $226, Ginza and Tokyo Station $250 and Shibuya $273.

These are the costs we measured for April 2027, in US dollars. Hotel rates are per room for two adults, before taxes; tour prices are per person.

An example: three Sunday to Thursday nights from mid-April at the typical $198, plus the bike tour and the Shinjuku food tour for two, comes to about $965 before other meals, local transport and taxes. The same three nights from April 5 to 7 would add about $100, and moving them to Thursday, Friday and Saturday in mid-April would add roughly $50 to $100. Hotels vary far more than the typical rate: the cheapest hotel in our showcase quoted about $235 a night for mid-April, and the dearest about $767.

April's signature draw is the run of spring flowers: the end of the cherry season, then the azaleas in the city and the moss phlox below Mt Fuji.

The azalea festival dates are from Bunkyo City and the Shibazakura dates from the Yamanashi tourism site; both were 2026 dates when we checked, and the 2027 dates had not been announced.

The end of the cherry season

Tokyo's cherry trees normally reach full bloom around March 31, and the petals fall over the following week or so, which makes the first days of April some of the prettiest of the season, with blossom drifting onto the moats and rivers. In an early year like 2026, when full bloom was on March 28, most trees are green by the end of the first week. Our Tokyo in March guide covers the blossom dates and spots in detail.

Azaleas at Nezu Shrine

Nezu Shrine, in the old Yanaka, Nezu and Sendagi area, has a hillside of thousands of azalea bushes that flower through April, with the Bunkyo azalea festival in the grounds. It is an easy add-on to a walk around Yanaka; see our Yanaka walking tour guide.

Moss phlox below Mt Fuji

The Fuji Shibazakura Festival carpets a field near Lake Motosu in pink moss phlox from mid-April. It is a separate trip from our Fuji pick's route; our Mt Fuji tour guide compares the tours that go near it.

Risk level: moderate early in the month, low later. April's weather is kind; the risks are availability and timing.

• Sold-out hotels: on several nights from April 4 to 18, between a fifth and two in five of the hotels in our sample returned no rate. Book as early as you can for the first half of the month.
• Blossom timing: in an early year the cherries are over by the end of the first week. Don't plan an April trip around blossom alone unless it starts on April 1 to 4.
• Rain: about 9 or 10 rainy days in the normals. Keep a rainy-day plan for any outdoor tour.
• Golden Week: Showa Day on Thursday, April 29 starts Japan's longest holiday run, with the busiest travel on May 1 to 5. Trains and day trips out of Tokyo fill up.
• Mt Fuji: our Fuji pick's 119 April 2026 reviews average 4.39, with 18 at three stars or below; complaints include cancelled ropeway rides and no view of the mountain.

Alternatives on a wet day: the Shinjuku food tour, a museum in Ueno Park, or a cooking class; our cooking class guide compares the options.

The public holidays are from Japan's Cabinet Office.

Golden Week

Golden Week is the run of public holidays from Showa Day on April 29 to Children's Day on May 5. In 2027, Showa Day is a Thursday and May 3 to 5 fall from Monday to Wednesday, so the main break is May 1 to 5. In our sample, April 29 and 30 were still among the cheaper nights of the month; the crowds and higher rates come with May, which our Tokyo in May guide covers night by night.

Sumo

There is no tournament in April; the May tournament is held in Tokyo, and our sumo guide covers the 2027 dates and tickets.

Ranked by our own score of how well each activity suits April's conditions, out of 10. Guest ratings out of 5 are quoted separately below.

1. The small-group bike tour: April's pick

The tour costs $104 per person for about 6 hours and 27 km, in groups of no more than five, starting at 8:30 am at Hatsudai, by Tokyo Opera City. The route passes Meiji Jingu, the tree-lined avenues of Aoyama Cemetery, Zojo-ji, Roppongi Hills and Ginza, with a riverside lunch at your own expense, and finishes high above the city. It runs every day in April. Guests rate it 5.0 out of 5 across 1,308 reviews; it had no reviews from April 2026, but its four from April 2025 are all five stars, and the guide's local knowledge is what they praise most. We'd book it for a dry day in the second half of the month, when the weather is ideal and the parks are quieter, or in the first days of April to ride under the last of the blossom. Our Tokyo bike tour guide compares the options.

2 and 3. The sakura cruise and the last blossoms

Orange Tour's cherry blossom route runs to April 15: a 1:50 pm cruise with a tea ceremony for about $75, or 4:50 pm and 7:20 pm sukiyaki dinner cruises for about $113. Its 20 April 2026 reviews average 4.85. For the blossoms themselves, go to Chidorigafuchi, Ueno Park or the Meguro River early in the morning in the first week. See our Tokyo Bay dinner cruise guide.

4 and 5. Gardens

The Imperial Palace East Gardens walk costs $13 for two hours, with 21 April dates; the gardens are green and in flower all month. Nezu Shrine's azaleas are a short ride north. See our Imperial Palace tour and Yanaka walking tour guides.

6 and 7. Evenings

The Shinjuku food tour costs $82 for 13 dishes at four eateries with two drinks, every day. From April 16 the yakatabune returns to its standard bay route at about $100 for the 4:50 pm sailing and $106 for the 7:20 pm. See our Shinjuku food tour guide.

8 and 9. Mt Fuji and Nikko

Japan Panoramic Tours' Fuji day trip costs $156 and runs every day; spring haze and ropeway cancellations come up in its April 2026 reviews. Nikko's cherry trees flower later than Tokyo's, but the lake is still cool. See our Mt Fuji and Nikko guides.

• Book early for April 1 to 11. Typical Sunday to Thursday rates were $212 to $273 in our sample, and many hotels had no rooms on some nights.
• Come from April 19 for value. Typical weeknights fell to $188 to $201, and to $161 to $166 from April 25.
• Ride or walk on the dry days. April's weather is the year's best for being outside; save the food tour and museums for the rain.
• Catch the sakura cruise by April 15. After that it returns to the standard bay route.
• Plan around Golden Week. The main holiday is May 1 to 5 in 2027; arrive or leave before it if you can.
• Pack layers. Days reach about 19°C, but early-April evenings are near 10°C.
• Visiting at a different time of year? Our Tokyo in March guide covers the start of the cherry blossom season, and our Tokyo in May guide covers Golden Week, the May sumo tournament and the Sanja Matsuri.