Abeno Harukas Tickets

Abeno Harukas tickets start at $12.53 for the GetYourGuide Panoramic Observatory E-Ticket, which is also the only one I found: rated 4.43 from 306 reviews. The deck sits near the top of a 300 m skyscraper in Osaka’s Tennoji district, 288 m up by the Wikipedia list. I’d go about 45 minutes before sunset. Every price in these Abeno Harukas tickets is for one adult unless I say otherwise.

There is one product to choose from here, a plain admission e-ticket, so this page is short on options and long on detail. The deck itself is run by the Harukas 300 observatory, which sells its own same-day tickets, and I show both routes below. Figures come from the listing and the official site, checked in October 2026. Links open GetYourGuide in a new tab, and I earn a commission if you book, at no extra cost to you.

Abeno Harukas at a Glance

Abeno Harukas opened on 7 March 2014, according to Wikipedia, and was Japan’s tallest building until 2023. Its observatory fills floors 58 to 60. These numbers sit behind every one of the Abeno Harukas tickets below, each with its source.

“The 60th floor - the top floor - is a 360° glass-enclosed observation deck”

A few details sit outside the stats grid.

What	Detail
Levels	58th floor open-air plaza, 60th floor glass-enclosed deck, per the official site
Ticket counter	16th floor, per the GetYourGuide listing
Address	1 Chome-1-43 Abenosuji, Abeno Ward, Osaka, 545-6016, per Google Maps
Opening hours	9:00 AM to 10:00 PM, last admission 9:30 PM, per the listing
Google Maps rating	4.6 from 23,844 reviews (Harukas 300)
Time to allow	About one to one and a half hours, per the official FAQ

Hours change, so check the official site for the day you plan to go before you buy Abeno Harukas tickets. The Google Maps listing for the building shows no hours at all, so the listing’s 9:00 AM to 10:00 PM is the only figure I can give you.

Abeno Harukas Observatory Tickets

If you want Abeno Harukas observatory tickets you can buy before you land, this is the listing I’d book. GlobalTix JP sells the Abeno Harukas 300 Panoramic Observatory E-Ticket for $12.53, rated 4.43 from 306 reviews. It is a standard ticket: the only inclusion is observatory admission, and the listing says it is non-refundable. You go straight to the ticketing counter on the 16th floor and redeem it there.

The listing describes a fast elevator to the 60th floor, a glass viewing deck with seats, and an open-air garden on the 58th. It also mentions a light show at night and a restaurant on the 58th floor, but those are things to find in the building rather than inclusions, so I would not pay for the ticket expecting a meal. Reviewers praise the speed of the lift and the short wait. Because the ticket cannot be refunded, I’d book once your date and the forecast look right. Redeeming at the counter takes a few minutes, so I would allow time at the 16th floor before you head up. The listing gives no duration or validity window, so treat the date you choose as the day you go, and keep your confirmation on your phone for the Abeno Harukas tickets desk.

GlobalTix JP

Abeno Harukas 300 Panoramic Observatory E-Ticket

• ★ 4.4 (306 reviews)

My pick: My pick, and the only one listed: $12.53, 4.43 stars from 306 reviews, plain admission you redeem at the 16th-floor counter.

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Abeno Harukas Observation Deck Tickets

I found no second product, such as a tour that includes entry or a city pass that covers the deck, so the observation deck tickets here are one listing. If you travel with a group, the calculator above gives the total for the e-ticket. The other route is the official counter: the observatory sells same-day tickets from 10 minutes before opening until 30 minutes before closing, and says sales may be suspended at busy times or for events. That makes an advance voucher the safer choice if your dates are fixed. Reviewers of the e-ticket mention short waits, and one said they went around 18:30 to see the city by day, at sunset and after dark. I would copy that plan: it is the best use of one set of tickets to Abeno Harukas, because you see all three lights without paying twice.

Abeno Harukas Observation Deck Price

The GetYourGuide e-ticket costs $12.53 per person in US dollars. The official ticket page lists same-day prices in yen: 2,200 yen for an adult aged 15 and over, 900 yen for a child aged 6 to 14, and free entry for ages 5 and under. Groups of 15 or more pay 1,980 yen per adult and 810 yen per child. I don’t convert those into dollars, because the rate moves, so compare them at today’s rate before choosing between Abeno Harukas tickets online and the counter.

If you have children, the official counter has a child price that the single GetYourGuide listing does not show, so work out how many tickets you need before you pick a route.

Abeno Harukas Observation Deck Height

Before you buy Abeno Harukas tickets for the view, it helps to know how high you will stand. Wikipedia gives the building as 300 m tall, and its list of public observation decks gives the deck at 288 m. Wikidata counts 60 floors, and the official site puts the observatory on floors 58 to 60. The horizon calculator further down uses the 288 m figure.

Abeno Harukas Observatory

The observatory is the main reason to buy Abeno Harukas tickets, and it is split in two. The 58th floor is an open-air plaza in a three-story atrium, so you get fresh air and a gap in the glass. The 60th floor is the glass-enclosed top, where the 360 degree view is. On a rainy or windy day the 60th floor is the one that matters. Per the official site’s FAQ, most visitors spend about an hour to an hour and a half there.

Abeno Harukasu

Abeno Harukasu is just a romanised spelling of the same building, and it is the most searched of the names, so it is worth saying plainly that tickets under either spelling lead to the same observatory. A related name, Harukas 300, is the observatory brand on the official site and in Google Maps. Harukas 300 tickets and Abeno Harukas tickets are therefore the same product, and the GetYourGuide e-ticket covers both. If you see tickets for Abeno Harukas sold under another name, check that the listing says observatory admission and not an art museum or hotel product, because those are separate things in the same building.

Abeno Harukas vs Umeda Sky Building

Both are Osaka observation decks, but they sit 6.9 km apart and offer different views. Harukas 300 is 300 m tall and 288 m to the deck, with a glass deck and an open-air plaza. Umeda Sky Building is in the Umeda district to the north, so you see a different part of the skyline. Google Maps rates Harukas 300 at 4.6 from 23,844 reviews and Umeda Sky Building at 4.4 from 44,110. I’d pick Abeno Harukas for height and a southern sunset, and Umeda Sky if you are already staying in Umeda. Price is no tiebreaker here, because I only have a sourced price for Abeno Harukas tickets.

Best Time to Visit Abeno Harukas

Season matters more than the day of the week when you use Abeno Harukas tickets. In the 2025 Open-Meteo data for this site, January was the clearest month with 41% cloud cover, followed by November at 42% and December at 44%, and May was the cloudiest at 80%, then June at 73%. Sunset ranges from 16:48 in December to 19:12 in June. I’d arrive 45 to 60 minutes before sunset, so Abeno Harukas tickets for that slot give you daylight, dusk and the lit city.

Month	Sunset (Tokyo time)	Cloud cover	Sunshine a day	Rainy days
Janclearest	17:09	41%	8.3 h	4
Feb	17:40	46%	8.4 h	8
Mar	18:05	64%	7.8 h	12
Apr	18:29	56%	9.2 h	13
May	18:53	80%	7.9 h	13
Jun	19:12	73%	8.9 h	13
Jul	19:11	49%	12.3 h	16
Aug	18:46	57%	10.9 h	17
Sep	18:05	66%	9.2 h	15
Oct	17:23	59%	7.4 h	15
Novclearest	16:53	42%	8.2 h	7
Decclearest	16:48	44%	7.7 h	8

What You Can See From Abeno Harukas

The nearest sights are in the south of the city: Shinsekai at 0.9 km (0.6 miles) and Tsutenkaku at 1.0 km (0.6 miles). The calculator shows how far the horizon is from the deck.

Straight-line distances from the deck, from Google Maps coordinates, are below.

• Shinsekai: 0.9 km (0.6 miles)
• Tsutenkaku: 1.0 km (0.6 miles)
• Dotonbori: 2.8 km (1.7 miles)
• Osaka Castle Park: 4.6 km (2.9 miles)
• Osaka Castle: 4.7 km (2.9 miles)
• Universal Studios Japan: 7.7 km (4.8 miles)
• Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan: 7.8 km (4.8 miles)

Abeno Harukas vs Other Observation Decks in Osaka

Harukas 300 has the best Google rating of the Osaka decks in my data. The table compares it with the others. Distances are straight lines from this deck.

Deck	Google rating	Reviews	Distance	Free or paid
Harukas 300	4.6	23,844	-	Paid, $12.53 e-ticket
Tsutenkaku	4.1	44,079	1.0 km	Check locally
Umeda Sky Building	4.4	44,110	6.9 km	Check locally
Sakishima Cosmo Tower Observatory	4.3	1,058	9.1 km	Check locally

How I’d Choose

• Cheapest of the Abeno Harukas tickets: the GlobalTix JP e-ticket at $12.53, the only listing, with 306 reviews.
• Sunset: the same e-ticket from the Abeno Harukas tickets above, redeemed about 45 to 60 minutes before sunset.
• No queue at the desk: buy ahead, since the official counter can suspend same-day sales at busy times.
• Families: the official counter, which has a 900 yen child price that the listing does not show.
• First visit to Osaka: the e-ticket, then Tsutenkaku and Shinsekai on foot.
• Open-air view: the 58th-floor plaza is part of the observatory ticket; I could not confirm details of the Edge the Harukas roof walk, so check the official site for it.