Installation guide

Install Tokyo Night in your editor or terminal

Tokyo Night started as a VS Code theme and now has dozens of ports. Use the original extension for VS Code and the maintained tokyonight.nvim project for Neovim and many terminal configs.

VS Code Neovim Terminal configs

VS Code

The extension by enkia is the original Tokyo Night project. It includes Night, Storm, and Light themes.

Install from the Marketplace

Open the extension page in VS Code, select Install, then choose a Tokyo Night variant from the Color Theme menu.

Open the VS Code extension

Install from the command line

Run the VS Code extension command from a terminal where the code command is available.

code --install-extension enkia.tokyo-night

Primary source: Tokyo Night VS Code repository.

Neovim

The maintained Lua port requires Neovim 0.8 or newer. Its four styles are Night, Storm, Moon, and Day.

{
  "folke/tokyonight.nvim",
  lazy = false,
  priority = 1000,
  opts = {},
}

Load one of the named styles after the plugin is installed:

colorscheme tokyonight-night
colorscheme tokyonight-storm
colorscheme tokyonight-moon
colorscheme tokyonight-day

Primary source: folke/tokyonight.nvim. Set configuration options before loading the color scheme.

Terminal configs

The maintained Neovim project generates Night, Storm, Moon, and Day files for common terminal applications. Pick the format your terminal expects, then follow that terminal's normal import process.

Terminal	Format	Maintained configs
Alacritty	TOML	Open configs
Kitty	CONF	Open configs
iTerm2	ITermColors	Open configs
Ghostty	Theme file	Open configs
WezTerm	TOML	Open configs
Windows Terminal	JSON	Open configs

Ghostty example

Place a downloaded theme file in ~/.config/ghostty/themes, then select it in ~/.config/ghostty/config.

theme = "tokyonight_night"

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Choose the source before copying a config

Community ports can be useful, but old repositories often survive long after an application changes its config format. Start with the original theme or the maintained TokyoNight extras collection. Use a community port when it supports an application the primary projects do not cover.

Links and instructions on this page were reviewed on July 31, 2026.