Rykantai is a village in Trakai district municipality, Lithuania, 7 kilometres north-west of Lentvaris. The village has a post office, a railway station and a church, Trinity Church. The Neris River flows north of the village. According to the Lithuanian census of 2011, it has 281 inhabitants.^[1]

Rykantai
Village
Rykantai Location of Rykantai
Coordinates: 54°43′N 24°59′E / 54.717°N 24.983°E / 54.717; 24.983
Country	Lithuania
Ethnographic region	Aukštaitija
County	Vilnius County
Municipality	Trakai district municipality
Eldership	Lentvaris elderate
Population  (2011)
• Total	281
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Rykantai is known as one of the first reformats settlement in Lithuania. Rykantai is mentioned in Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace as the place where General Balashov delivers a letter from Tsar Alexander to Napoleon.