Our verdict
Best overall
London: The Original Jack the Ripper Walking Tour
The most-reviewed Ripper walk in London — about £22 for two hours, 4.7★ from nearly 9,000 reviews — with German and French versions on the same platform.
4.7★ · 8,929from £22 GetYourGuide →
Best value
London: Jack the Ripper Night Walking Tour in Whitechapel
The cheapest walk in our feed at about £16, and one of the best-rated at 4.8★ — a good pick if you just want the story told well.
4.8★ · 473from £16 GetYourGuide →
Skip it if
You're bringing young children
These walks deal with real murders, and some are explicitly adults-only. For a family evening with a shiver, a ghost bus or the Dungeon works better.
Which Jack the Ripper tour in London is best?
A Jack the Ripper tour is a two-hour evening walk through Whitechapel and Spitalfields, following the 1888 murders and the police investigation that never named a killer. Every company walks broadly the same ground, so the choice is about format: how big the group is, whether the guide uses images, and if you need to book. Here’s how the main operators compare.
| Tour | Price | Duration | Start | Group size | Multimedia | Languages | Our take |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Original Jack the Ripper Walking Tour (GYG) | ~£22 | 2 h | Evenings, Whitechapel | Not stated | — | EN, DE, FR | The safe, most-reviewed pick — 4.7★ (8,900+) |
| Ripper-Vision | ~£18 on GYG | 1 h 45 | Mon–Wed 7.30pm; Thu–Sun 5pm & 7.30pm, Aldgate East exit 3 | Not stated | Handheld projector, images on walls | EN | Best if you want to see the photographs — 4.5★ (1,900+) |
| London Walks | £20 (£15 / £5 child) | ~2 h | Nightly 7.30pm, plus Sat 3pm, Tower Hill station | Not stated; online bookings up to 9 | — | EN | The no-booking option; just turn up |
| Discovery Tours (jack-the-ripper-tour.com) | £15 | ~2 h | 7pm on selected nights, Aldgate East exit 1 | Limited numbers (no figure given) | Printed photos and handbills | EN | Cheapest direct; book ahead |
| Ripper tour with historic pub stops (GYG) | ~£29 | 2 h | Evenings | Not stated | — | EN | For a pint with your history — 4.8★ (580+) |
| Night walking tour in Whitechapel (GYG) | ~£16 | 2–2.5 h | Evenings | Not stated | — | EN | Cheapest platform walk — 4.8★ (470+) |
| “Uncensored” walking tour, adults only (GYG) | ~£19 | 2–3 h | Evenings | Not stated | — | EN | Graphic detail; over-18s only — 4.7★ (3,500+) |
Platform prices are the “from” prices in our partner feed today; operator prices and times are from their own websites. None of the operators publishes a hard group-size cap for its public walks, so if crowding worries you, a private guide is the only guarantee.
The operators in brief
The Original Jack the Ripper Walking Tour is the one most visitors book, and its review count — nearly 9,000 on GetYourGuide alone — reflects that. It’s a straightforward guided walk, and German- and French-language versions run under the same name.
Ripper-Vision is the multimedia option: the guide carries a projector that throws large images — crime-scene photographs and views of the 1888 city — onto walls along the route. It brings the 1888 city alive in a way storytelling can’t, but some of the photographs are genuinely upsetting, and the operator advises parental guidance.
London Walks is the only one here you can simply turn up for: 7.30pm every night outside Tower Hill station, £20 for adults, with a Saturday 3pm matinee. Guides carry the white London Walks leaflet so you know you’ve found the right one.
Discovery Tours sells its walk direct, at £15, from Aldgate East at 7pm on selected nights. It makes a point of limiting numbers and uses printed photographs and facsimile police handbills rather than a projector.
Jack the Ripper tours you can book now
London: The Original Jack the Ripper Walking Tour
from £22
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Jack the Ripper Uncensored Walking Tour (Adults Only)
from £19
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German Language: Original Jack the Ripper Tour
from £22
See on GetYourGuide
London: Jack the Ripper Tour with Ripper Vision
from £18
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London: The Original Jack the Ripper Tour in French
from £22
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London: Jack the Ripper Tour with Historic Pub Stops
from £29
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London: Jack the Ripper Night Walking Tour in Whitechapel
from £16
See on GetYourGuidePrices and ratings checked 21 Oct 2026; they change daily.
Jack the Ripper tours in German and French
The Original tour runs dedicated foreign-language walks, and they’re among the best-reviewed Ripper tours in London. The German-language tour (“Jack the Ripper Tour London auf Deutsch”) costs about £22 for two hours, rated 4.7★ from more than 2,700 reviews. The French-language tour is the same price and length, rated 4.8★ from more than 1,600. Both are booked on GetYourGuide. For any other language, book a private Blue Badge guide.
A note on the subject
Behind the brand are five women murdered in Whitechapel between August and November 1888: Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly. The better tours spend as much time on who they were and on the poverty of the East End as on the killer, and treat the crime-scene images with care. If a listing sells itself on gore, it’s telling you what kind of evening it will be.
Making a night of it
Evening Ripper walks finish by about half past nine in the East End, within reach of Brick Lane’s curry houses and the bars of Shoreditch — our street art and Shoreditch tours cover the area by day. If you’d rather your history came with drinks, compare the pub-stop Ripper tour with the options on our pub tours and crawls page. And if your group wants scares rather than true crime, our ghost tours page compares the Ghost Bus, haunted walks and the Tower after dark.
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Sources
- London Walks — Jack the Ripper walking tour (times, meeting point, prices) (checked 21 Oct 2026)
- The Jack the Ripper Tour with Ripper-Vision — times, meeting point, projector (checked 21 Oct 2026)
- Discovery Tours & Events — The Jack the Ripper Tour (price, meeting point, group size) (checked 21 Oct 2026)
- GetYourGuide — Jack the Ripper tours in London (partner feed)
Written and checked by the Private Tours London desk