Lajinha to Rio de Janeiro bus

Buses from Lajinha to Rio de Janeiro start at €18.33 and take 6h 37m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Lajinha to Rio de Janeiro starts at €18.33 and takes 6h 37m door to door, run by 1 operator over 398 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 17 September 2026Priced for 5 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 6h 37mDoor to door
  • 5h 53mMoving
  • €25.48 to €64.53From
  • 06:20 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 2Per day
  • 10.7 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 5 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€25.48 to €64.53 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

Viacao Riodoce runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.

Buying this journey

Bookaway lists departures for Lajinha to Rio de Janeiro on your date, and you pay on their side.

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Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €64.53Fri18
  2. about €40.88Sat19
  3. about €45.83Sun20
  4. about €34.28Mon21
  5. about €28.23Tue22
  6. about €31.53Wed23
  7. about €40.33Thu24
  8. about €33.18Fri25
  9. about €27.13Sat26
  10. about €29.88Sun27
  11. about €25.48Mon28
  12. about €28.78Tue29
  13. about €27.13Wed30
  14. about €28.78Thu1

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 5 October 2026

Cheapest€18.33
  1. Viacao Riodoce VR943606:205h 53m12:13Terminal Rodoviário de PassageirosCaju

Door to door 6h 37mCO2 10.7 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€51.88
  1. Viacao Aguia Branca S A VA376007:302h 24m09:54Terminal Rodoviário de PassageirosTerminal Itacibá
  2. Azul A524910:4258m11:40Vitória VIXRio de Janeiro GIG

Changes at Vitória, with 48 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 6h 7mCO2 108.5 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Bus operators

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Viacao Riodoce€18.336h72 km/hChangeablePower sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi

The coach gets you into Rio de Janeiro. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Rio de Janeiro for the night the coach gets in

Sort by distance from Estação Penha and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Lajinha to Rio de Janeiro

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €26.0390 days
  2. €20.5360 days
  3. €20.5345 days
  4. €23.8330 days
  5. €23.8321 days
  6. €28.7814 days
  7. €40.337 days
  8. €45.833 days
  9. €64.531 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €20.53.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 214 percent. The dearest point is €64.53, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €29.88Sun
  2. €25.48Mon
  3. €28.23Tue
  4. €27.13Wed
  5. €28.78Thu
  6. €33.18Fri
  7. €27.13Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Lajinha

Coach
  • Terminal Rodoviário de Passageiros

Rio de Janeiro

Coach
  • Caju
  • INTO
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
50% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 50% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 398 km against 346 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Vitória. The gap between arriving and leaving is 48 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Lajinha at 06:20 and the last at 07:30, across 2 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Lajinha to Rio de Janeiro

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Coach from Lajinha to Rio de Janeiro take?

The Coach from Lajinha to Rio de Janeiro takes 6h 37m door to door, of which 5h 53m is spent moving. The route runs 398 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Coach from Lajinha to Rio de Janeiro cost?

The Coach from Lajinha to Rio de Janeiro starts at €18.33 for one passenger, as of 17 September 2026. A typical fare is €35.11. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Coach from Lajinha to Rio de Janeiro?

1 operators run the Coach from Lajinha to Rio de Janeiro: Viacao Riodoce. Between them they file around 2 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Coach from Lajinha to Rio de Janeiro use?

The Coach from Lajinha to Rio de Janeiro leaves from Terminal Rodoviário de Passageiros and arrives at Caju. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Coach from Lajinha to Rio de Janeiro?

Fares for the Coach from Lajinha to Rio de Janeiro bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €20.53. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 214 percent, measured on 17 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Lajinha to Rio de Janeiro produce?

The Coach from Lajinha to Rio de Janeiro produces about 10.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 398 km, which works out at roughly 27 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Coach from Lajinha to Rio de Janeiro?

Operators on the Coach from Lajinha to Rio de Janeiro publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 6h 37m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Lajinha to Rio de Janeiro on 17 September 2026: 398 km of route against 346 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €18.33, and 6h 37m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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