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Five women were killed in Whitechapel and Spitalfields in the autumn of 1888. Their names were Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly. The man who killed them was never identified, and 138 years of guesswork has turned him into a brand.
That's the uncomfortable part of this tour. Keep it in mind.
The good walks treat the murders as a window on the East End of the 1880s: lodging houses, gin, a police force out of its depth, a press that invented a name and sold papers on it. The bad ones treat the women as props. Most sit somewhere in between, and the clearest dividing line is what the guide shows you. One tour on this page projects images of the victims onto the walls where they died. The others mostly talk.
We ranked the three Ripper walks that cleared our bar. All are evening walks of around two hours, all start near Aldgate, and all cost under $30 (€26). The differences are tone, crowd size and who's allowed to come.
At a glance
Best overall
Meet the Street's evening walk, 4.9 from 1,544 reviews, $20 (€17.90) today
Most reviewed
See Your City's Original tour, 8,940 reviews, no under-12s
Goriest
Ripper-Vision, which projects images onto the walls of the murder sites
Free option
Walk Durward Street, Hanbury Street and Mitre Square yourself; the streets are public
When it gets dark
6:42 p.m. in October, 10:06 p.m. in June
On this page
3 tours that passed our bar, ranked
Every tour we scored that includes this sight, in Night Score order. Night Score = 30% rating, 10% review count, 20% price per hour, 40% how much the night is the point. How we score
Top of the list because it's both the best rated and the cheapest: 4.9 from 1,544 reviews, and $20 (€17.90) today, struck through from $27 (€24). That sale price is why it scores a perfect 10 on value, so expect it to move. Meet the Street Tours start at Aldgate Underground station and spend two hours on the social history: poverty, policing, the suspects. It's the one I'd send a first-timer on. Tips are included. The same operator sells a 90-minute version on Viator at $34 (€30), which we didn't record.
How the score breaks down, and the fine print
Rated by travelersData · 30%8.4
Review countData · 10%8.2
Price per hourData · 20%10.0
After darkEditors · 40%7.0
What it is: A two-hour Ripper walk through Whitechapel and Spitalfields run by Meet the Street Tours, starting at Aldgate Underground station.
Good to know: Shown today at $20, struck through from $27. Guide and tips are included; moderate walking. The same operator sells a 90-minute version on Viator (4.9, 403 reviews, $34) that we did not record.
After dark: Sold and run as an evening walk, so the murder sites are seen under streetlight as the case files describe them.
Rating, review count and from-price as shown on GetYourGuide on October 26, 2026. The price changes with the date.
The heavyweight on reviews, with 8,940, which maxes out our proven score. A 4.7 rating is what holds it at second. See Your City meets at the iron arch gate on the west side of Altab Ali Park, near Aldgate East, and finishes at the Ten Bells in Spitalfields. The listing warns of graphic details and visual content, says guests assess photographic evidence, and bars under-12s. A free digital case file unlocks the murder sites as you walk them. $29 (€26). Runs in seven languages.
How the score breaks down, and the fine print
Rated by travelersData · 30%5.4
Review countData · 10%10.0
Price per hourData · 20%9.3
After darkEditors · 40%7.0
What it is: A two-hour walk past the 1888 murder sites with a Ripperologist guide, run by See Your City from Altab Ali Park near Aldgate East.
Good to know: Meet at the iron arch gate of Altab Ali Park (Aldgate East); ends at the Ten Bells pub in Spitalfields. Includes a digital case file unlocked after the tour; not suitable for under-12s because of graphic content. Also runs in German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Japanese.
After dark: Whitechapel's alleys after dark are the closest you can get to the streets of 1888; by day the same route reads as a modern office district.
Rating, review count and from-price as shown on GetYourGuide on October 26, 2026. The price changes with the date.
This is the gore option. Secret Chamber Tours' guides carry hand-held projectors, and the listing record has them showing victims, suspects and old Whitechapel on the walls of the murder sites. That needs darkness, so it earns the highest after-dark score here. The 4.6 rating sinks it to third. Groups run up to 35, which is big for a narrow street. Meet outside Whitechapel Gallery at exit 3 of Aldgate East, not Aldgate. Starts 7:30 p.m., $27 (€24). Skip it if you don't want to see the photographs.
How the score breaks down, and the fine print
Rated by travelersData · 30%3.6
Review countData · 10%10.0
Price per hourData · 20%9.0
After darkEditors · 40%8.0
What it is: A 1 hour 45 minute Ripper walk by Secret Chamber Tours with hand-held projections of victims, suspects and old Whitechapel.
Good to know: Meet outside Whitechapel Gallery at exit 3 of Aldgate East (not Aldgate) and finish near Spitalfields Market; up to 35 per group, runs in all weather. The GetYourGuide listing of the same tour (t104249, 4.5, 1,919 reviews) was dropped.
After dark: The guide projects period photographs onto the walls of the murder sites, which only works once it is dark.
Rating, review count and from-price as shown on Viator on October 26, 2026. The price changes with the date.
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History or gore: telling the tours apart
Every Ripper tour walks roughly the same streets. What changes is what the guide does when you get there.
Meet the Street sells its walk as social history. The listing talks about the grim life of working-class Victorian London, separating fact from fiction, and a profile of the likely suspects. It does promise to explain what the killer did to the women, so it isn't sanitised. But there's no projector.
See Your City's Original tour sits in the middle. It shows photographic evidence and warns about graphic content, which is why it bars under-12s. It also says its case file covers the five women and who they actually were. That's a decent sign.
Ripper-Vision is built around the projections. Photographs of murdered women, blown up on the brick wall of the street where it happened, are a lot. Some people want exactly that. Plenty don't, and nobody should find out halfway down a street with their twelve-year-old.
One test, for any guide on any of these: do they say the women's names more than they say his nickname? If yes, you picked well.
The five women, and where they were found
Police at the time grouped eleven killings between April 1888 and February 1891 as the Whitechapel murders. Five are usually attributed to one man, and those are the stops every tour makes.
Mary Ann Nichols, found on 31 August 1888 in Buck's Row, now Durward Street.
Annie Chapman, 8 September, in the back yard of 29 Hanbury Street, Spitalfields.
Elizabeth Stride, 30 September, in Dutfield's Yard off Berner Street, now Henriques Street.
Catherine Eddowes, the same night, in Mitre Square, inside the City of London.
Mary Jane Kelly, 9 November, in her room at 13 Miller's Court, off Dorset Street.
For years they were filed in popular retellings as anonymous prostitutes. Hallie Rubenhold's book The Five is a biography of the women instead of the killer, and it's the best homework you can do before any of these walks.
Read it first. You'll hear the tour differently.
Doing it yourself
The streets are public and you can walk them any night for free. Durward Street, Hanbury Street, Henriques Street and Mitre Square are all on the map, and the Ten Bells, the pub on Commercial Street that at least one of the women drank in, is still open.
Honestly, though, this is a case where the guide earns the money. By day the route reads as a modern office district. Without someone pointing at a doorway and telling you what stood there, you're looking at a car park. At $20 (€17.90) for the top-ranked tour, I'd pay.
If you do go alone, start at Aldgate East and finish at the Ten Bells. That's the order the Original tour uses.
Why it has to be at night
By day this is a working district. Bagel shops on Brick Lane, office lunches, Spitalfields Market. After dark the side streets empty out and the narrow passages read the way the case files describe them: lit by a lamp at one end and not much else.
Ripper-Vision literally doesn't work in daylight. The projections need a dark wall.
Timing matters in summer. London isn't dark until 9:25 p.m. in May and 10:06 p.m. in June, so a 7:30 p.m. start is a walk in broad daylight for half the year. From October to February you're in the dark by 5:00 or 6:00 p.m., and the November night lows of about 41°F (5°C) mean a coat, not a jacket. October is the sweet spot: dark by 6:42 p.m., and the anniversaries of the September and November killings fall either side of it.
Meeting points and the small print
Check the station. It's the single most common way to miss one of these.
Meet the Street meets at Aldgate. See Your City and Ripper-Vision both meet near Aldgate East, a different station on different lines a short walk away. Ripper-Vision is specific: exit 3, outside Whitechapel Gallery.
Groups are large on all three. Ripper-Vision caps at 35. The walks run in all weather and there's no shelter between stops, so bring an umbrella from autumn on. We didn't find a wheelchair-access promise on any of the three listings, and the alleys are narrow, so ask the operator before booking.
For London's other night tours, from ghost buses to the Tower's locking-up ceremony, see our London night tours page.
Frequently asked questions
Which Jack the Ripper tour is best?
On our Night Score, Meet the Street's evening walk: 4.9 from 1,544 reviews and $20 (€17.90) today. If you want the most proven, See Your City's Original tour has 8,940 reviews.
Are Jack the Ripper tours suitable for children?
Depends on the tour. See Your City's Original bars under-12s because of graphic content. Ripper-Vision shows projected images, which we wouldn't put in front of young kids. Meet the Street sets no minimum age, but it still describes the murders.
Where do Jack the Ripper tours start?
Around Aldgate. Meet the Street uses Aldgate Underground station. The Original meets at Altab Ali Park near Aldgate East. Ripper-Vision meets at exit 3 of Aldgate East, outside Whitechapel Gallery.
How long is a Jack the Ripper tour?
About two hours for Meet the Street and the Original, and 1 hour 45 minutes for Ripper-Vision. Most end in Spitalfields; the Original finishes at the Ten Bells pub.
Who were Jack the Ripper's victims?
The five usually attributed to him are Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly, killed between 31 August and 9 November 1888. Police files listed eleven Whitechapel murders in all.
