Oriental Pearl Tower Tickets

Oriental Pearl Tower tickets on GetYourGuide start at $36.49 for 2-sphere entry with a transfer option, and the $39 entry is the best rated at 4.74 from 14 reviews. The most reviewed listing is the $69.95 experience, with 21. The tower is 468 m tall according to Wikidata, and its top deck, the Space Capsule, is at 351 m. I’d go about an hour before sunset on a clear day.

I compared all eight Oriental Pearl Tower tickets that GetYourGuide sells right now. Every one is admission to the same tower, and what separates them is how far up you go, whether a meal, a pickup or a transfer comes with it, and who sells it. The reviews are thin: no listing has more than 21, and three have none or one. So I rely on the descriptions for what each ticket includes, and I say plainly where a listing’s own text contradicts itself. Prices and ratings come from the listings, checked in October 2026, in US dollars as starting prices.

Oriental Pearl Tower at a Glance

The Oriental Pearl Tower is the pink-sphered TV tower in Lujiazui, which Wikipedia describes as built from 1991 to 1994. Here are the numbers behind these Oriental Pearl Tower tickets, each with its source.

“The Oriental Pearl Tower is a futurist TV tower in Lujiazui, Shanghai.”

The tower is a stack of spheres, and your Oriental Pearl Tower tickets decide how many you reach. The table below covers what the numbers above leave out.

What	Detail
2-sphere ticket	The 263 m main deck, the 259 m glass skywalk, the 90 m outdoor corridor, the 78 m multimedia show and the history museum, per the listings
3-sphere ticket	Everything above plus the 351 m Space Capsule
267 m level	A revolving restaurant, sold as a buffet option on two listings
Open air or indoor	Mostly indoor behind glass, with the 90 m corridor open to the air, per the listings
Address	1 Shiji Boulevard, Lujiazui, Pudong, per Google Maps
Opening hours	Not shown on Google Maps; listings say entry 10:00 to 20:00, or 09:00 to 21:00
Google Maps rating	4.6 from 7,610 reviews
Time to allow	The vouchers are valid for 1 day on your chosen date; the official site is the place to check how long a visit takes

Hours and deck access change for holidays and works, so before you buy Oriental Pearl Tower tickets check the tower’s official site for your date.

Oriental Pearl Tower Observation Deck Tickets

If you want one answer among the Oriental Pearl Tower observation deck tickets, the entry ticket from kequyou at $39 is where I’d start. It is the best rated of the group at 4.74 from 14 reviews, and it is flexible: the listing sells 2-sphere and 3-sphere options, and you can add a one-way pickup or a round-trip transfer from within 50 km. The description lists the 263 m main deck, the 259 m glass skywalk, the 90 m outdoor corridor, the 78 m show and the museum.

You show a QR code and a valid ID at the ticket office, which the listing says avoids the ticket queue. A reviewer called the ticket sales well managed, which is the kind of comment I want to read about a ticket that depends on a booking system. It is a small sample, so I’d treat 4.74 as a good sign and not a verdict. It carries free cancellation up to 24 hours before, which is rare enough among Oriental Pearl Tower tickets to count in its favour.

kequyou

Oriental Pearl Tower: Entry Ticket & Transfer Options

• ★ 4.7 (14 reviews)
• 24-hour ticket
• Free cancellation

My pick: The best-rated option at $39, 4.74 from 14 reviews, with 2-sphere or 3-sphere entry and optional transfers.

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Oriental Pearl Tower Tickets and Prices

The $69.95 Oriental Pearl Tower Experience from WukongTravel is the most reviewed listing, with 21 reviews at 4.14, and the most expensive of the eight. Its price buys more than the plain entry that most Oriental Pearl Tower tickets are. The inclusions list admission, the history museum, the glass-bottomed walkway and hotel pickup and drop-off, and it names the Space Capsule too, with the note that a third-sphere ticket is required for that deck.

That note is why I would read the option names before paying. This is the listing where the headline price does not by itself get you to 351 m. Its description is the most detailed of the group, covering the three spheres, a VR roller coaster and a space capsule ride, and the 267 m revolving restaurant, which it says takes about 90 minutes for a full turn. If hotel pickup matters to you it is the one I’d choose, otherwise the gap to the $39 entry is hard to justify. Two reviewers called it fantastic and said the instructions were clear.

WukongTravel

Oriental Pearl Tower Experience

• ★ 4.1 (21 reviews)
• 24-hour ticket
• Free cancellation

My pick: The most reviewed listing at $69.95, 4.14 from 21 reviews, with hotel pickup and drop-off; the Space Capsule needs the third-sphere option.

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Oriental Pearl Tv Tower Tickets

Google Maps calls the place the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, and the Oriental Pearl TV tower tickets from CHINA FACE at $50 are the straightforward self-guided option. The ticket includes standard admission, the main observation areas and the 259 m transparent glass skywalk, for the date you book. The listing says it has an entry quota guaranteed, so a sold-out day should not catch you out. It does not say the 3-sphere deck is included, and it lists no transfer, no guide and no buffet.

It is rated 4.6 from 9 reviews. One reviewer called the visit a must while in Shanghai and mentioned the lines and the wait after going up, but said the views were worth it. Another went on a rainy day and found the views obscured, which is the risk I come back to in the weather section. Of all the Oriental Pearl Tower tickets in this group it is the plainest, and it says the museum is included only if your ticket carries it, so confirm that before you buy.

CHINA FACE

Oriental Pearl Tower Entry & Glass Skywalk

• ★ 4.6 (9 reviews)
• 24-hour ticket
• Free cancellation

My pick: A plain self-guided entry at $50 with the 259 m glass skywalk, rated 4.6 from 9 reviews; no transfer and no 3-sphere deck.

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Oriental Pearl Tower Height

Behind every one of these Oriental Pearl Tower tickets is a tower with several heights. Wikidata gives the whole structure as 468 m. Wikipedia says it was the tallest structure in China until the World Financial Center was finished in 2007, and lists the highest public deck at 351 m on its list of observation decks. The listings give the rest: 263 m for the main deck, 259 m for the glass skywalk, 90 m for the outdoor corridor and 78 m for the show.

If height is why you are buying Oriental Pearl Tower tickets, the TravelChinaGuide ticket at $42.90 is the one that says so outright. It offers a 2-sphere sightseeing ticket, a 3-sphere ticket with access up to 351 meters, and two combos that pair the 2-sphere ticket with a buffet lunch or dinner. It is rated 4.14 from 10 reviews and is tagged skip the line. A reviewer who took the dinner option said it was good but busy, with a queue to get in and a rush for the food, and that cloud hid the view.

TravelChinaGuide

Shanghai Oriental Pearl Tower Entry Ticket (Optional Buffet)

• ★ 4.1 (10 reviews)
• 24-hour ticket
• Free cancellation

My pick: Four options at $42.90, from 2-sphere to the 3-sphere ticket up to 351 m, plus buffet combos; 4.14 from 10 reviews.

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Oriental Pearl Tower Restaurant

The Oriental Pearl Tower restaurant is the revolving one at 267 m, and one listing is built around it. The Xinlan International Travel Agency ticket at $53.16 sells a 2-sphere tour, a 3-sphere tour, and a 2-sphere tour with a lunch or dinner buffet in the rotating restaurant. The description says the buffet mixes Southeast Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Western dishes, with a 360 degree view while the room turns.

I’d weigh this one carefully, as I would any of the Oriental Pearl Tower tickets with one review. It is rated 5 but from a single review, so the score tells you nothing yet. That reviewer booked it by mistake, thinking it was the same experience as the Shanghai Tower, and still called the surprise delicious. The review shows what to check: this is a meal inside a sightseeing ticket, and the Oriental Pearl Tower restaurant is not a way to skip the observation decks. The 3-sphere option is separate from the buffet one, so you cannot assume the Space Capsule comes with dinner.

Shanghai Xinlan International Travel Agency Co., Ltd

Oriental Pearl Tower: Entry Ticket, Skywalk & Dining Option

• ★ 5.0 (1 reviews)
• 24-hour ticket
• Free cancellation

My pick: A dining with a view listing at $53.16 with a 267 m buffet option, but rated 5 from a single review, so judge it on the inclusions.

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Oriental Pearl Tower at Night

The tower is lit after dark, and the view from it changes with the light. The CHINA FACE listing says you can visit by day, at sunset or at night to see the city lights, and the Ocean Travel listing speaks of the neon glow of the city. I did not find a lighting schedule that I could cite, so I leave the switch-on time to the tower’s official site.

What I can say is based on the sunset data. In December the sun sets at 16:52, so the lights are on by early evening, and in June and July it sets at 18:59, so a night visit is later in the evening. With entry times running to 20:00 on one listing and to 21:00 on another, the later part of the day is open to you. Book the latest slot your ticket allows, and check that the slot is not the last entry. No listing here is a dedicated night ticket, so night is a matter of timing on any of the Oriental Pearl Tower tickets.

Oriental Pearl Tower Tickets Price

If the price of Oriental Pearl Tower tickets is the whole question, the cheapest is the Entry Ticket with Transfers at $36.49. The listing offers a 2-sphere or 3-sphere ticket and an optional pickup, one way or round trip, from within 50 km. It has no rating and no reviews yet, which is the usual price of being the cheapest, so I’d book it only with its 24-hour free cancellation in mind.

Its inclusions match the $39 Oriental Pearl Tower ticket: the main deck, skywalk, outdoor deck, the “Updating City” show, the museum, and the Space Capsule on the 3-sphere option. The only difference I can see is that the cheaper one has no reviews at all, which makes the $2.51 gap a small saving for a lot of uncertainty. The calculator below works out the cost of a group on any of the tickets.

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Oriental Pearl Tower Entry Ticket with Transfers

• 24-hour ticket
• Free cancellation

My pick: The lowest price at $36.49 with optional transfers, but no reviews yet; I'd book it only with the free cancellation in mind.

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Oriental Pearl Tower Tickets Online

Booking Oriental Pearl Tower tickets online is simple, and it is the right call here. The listings sell a voucher for a chosen date, with free cancellation up to 24 hours before, and the cheaper ones use a QR code and ID instead of a printed ticket. The Yan Experience listing says advance booking is strongly recommended because of demand, and the $39 listing says that presenting the QR code at the ticket office avoids the ticket queue.

Two things to do before paying for Oriental Pearl Tower tickets. Check which sphere option you pick, because the 3-sphere deck at 351 m is an upgrade on most listings. And have your passport ready, because one listing says it needs your name and passport number to book. No single listing in this group is a dedicated online-only ticket, so the choice is about what the ticket includes and not about the channel.

Oriental Pearl Tower Location

The Oriental Pearl Tower location is 1 Shiji Boulevard in Lujiazui, Pudong, per Google Maps, on the east bank of the Huangpu River. Across the water, the Bund is 0.87 km (0.54 miles) in a straight line, and the Dongfangmingzhu cruise wharf is 0.30 km (0.19 miles) away. The listings that mention a meeting point give the same coordinates, 31.2397, 121.4998, which is the foot of the tower.

If you want one of the Oriental Pearl Tower tickets that is clear about where you start, the Yan Experience China listing at $54.59 is the one I’d look at. It is a 2-sphere entry that takes you from the top down, with the main deck, the glass skywalk, the 90 m outdoor deck, the show and the museum on the ground floor, and its meeting point is the tower itself. It is rated 4 from a single review, and it adds an English-language support line and a digital guide to the ticket. Its description is a little inconsistent about on-site guides, so I would not expect one.

Yan Experience China

Shanghai Oriental Pearl Tower: Skywalk & Ticket

• ★ 4.0 (1 reviews)
• 24-hour ticket
• Free cancellation

My pick: A top-to-bottom 2-sphere entry at $54.59 with English support and a digital guide; rated 4 from one review.

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Oriental Pearl Tower Opening Hours

Google Maps shows no opening hours for the tower, so I compare the listings behind each of the Oriental Pearl Tower tickets. The kequyou ticket says entry runs from 10:00 to 20:00, and the Yan Experience listing says 09:00 to 21:00, subject to the ticketing schedule and holiday changes. Those two disagree, and I would trust the time printed on your own voucher over either.

The last listing on my list is the Ocean Travel “Vertical City” ticket at $67, which has no reviews and no stated hours. It sells the main spheres and the 259 m skywalk, and says most tickets include the museum depending on the option. I’d flag a contradiction in the listing itself: the description calls the visit self-guided, yet the inclusions mention a physical guide and access to the revolving restaurant. Until that is clear I would not pick it over the $39 entry among the Oriental Pearl Tower tickets. This is a remaining product in my ranking, not a natural fit for the hours question.

Ocean Travel - Expert China Destination Services

Oriental Pearl Tower "Vertical City" Entry Ticket

• 24-hour ticket
• Free cancellation

My pick: A remaining product at $67 with no reviews; its listing contradicts itself on guide and restaurant access, so I would check before booking.

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Best Time to Visit the Oriental Pearl Tower

Cloud decides the view, so it also decides the value of Oriental Pearl Tower tickets. According to Open-Meteo data for 2025, the clearest months at the tower were December, at 41% average cloud cover, and August, at 42%. June was the cloudiest at 76%, with 18 rainy days. August also had the most sunshine, at 11 hours a day on average.

The sun sets earliest in December, at 16:52, and latest in June and July, at 18:59. I’d arrive 45 to 60 minutes before sunset, so you have time to go up to the 263 m deck, step out on the skywalk and get to the open corridor before the light goes. With the Oriental Pearl Tower tickets here being free to cancel until 24 hours before, the sensible move is to book early and change if the forecast turns.

Month	Sunset (Shanghai time)	Cloud cover	Sunshine a day	Rainy days
Janclearest	17:13	44%	8.2 h	3
Feb	17:41	58%	6.4 h	6
Mar	18:01	61%	7 h	11
Apr	18:22	62%	9.4 h	4
May	18:42	69%	8.6 h	11
Jun	18:59	76%	6.1 h	18
Jul	18:59	61%	10.8 h	17
Augclearest	18:37	42%	11 h	11
Sep	17:59	59%	8.9 h	21
Oct	17:22	56%	7.7 h	7
Nov	16:55	47%	7.2 h	5
Decclearest	16:52	41%	7.9 h	2

What You Can See From the Oriental Pearl Tower

From the Space Capsule at 351 m, the horizon is about 67 km away by the standard formula. The calculator below shows it for other heights. On a clear day, the real limit is haze, not distance.

The best-known landmarks are close. Distances are straight-line from the tower, computed from Google Maps coordinates.

• The Bund is 0.87 km (0.54 miles) across the river, rated 4.7 from 7,814 reviews.
• The Shanghai Tower is 0.88 km (0.55 miles) away, and it is the tower you see the most of from here.
• The Jin Mao Tower is 0.75 km (0.47 miles) away, the nearest of the Lujiazui towers.
• Waitan, the Bund waterfront, is 1.0 km (0.62 miles) away.
• Yu Garden is 1.56 km (0.97 miles) away.
• Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street is 2.43 km (1.51 miles) away.
• The Dongfangmingzhu cruise wharf is only 0.30 km (0.19 miles) from the tower.

Oriental Pearl Tower vs Other Observation Decks in Shanghai

Several decks stand within a kilometre of the place where you use your Oriental Pearl Tower tickets, and the Bund has a viewpoint across the river. Ratings and review counts are from Google Maps, and distances are straight-line from the tower.

Deck	Google rating	Reviews	Distance	Cost
Oriental Pearl TV Tower	4.6	7,610	the deck itself	Paid
Shanghai Tower	4.6	3,264	0.88 km (0.55 mi)	Paid
Sightseeing Hall, Jin Mao Tower	4.6	37	0.76 km (0.48 mi)	Check locally
Shanghai World Financial Center Observatory	4.6	25	0.94 km (0.58 mi)	Check locally
Waitan Observatory	4.0	23	1.03 km (0.64 mi)	Check locally

Among Oriental Pearl Tower tickets and its neighbours, the Shanghai Tower has the highest deck, which Wikipedia puts at 562 m. The Oriental Pearl Tower is the one with the glass skywalk, the museum and a view that includes that taller neighbour. The Jin Mao and World Financial Center decks have small review counts on Google Maps, so I can only say they are a short walk away.

How I’d Choose

• Best rated of the Oriental Pearl Tower tickets: the kequyou entry at $39, 4.74 from 14 reviews.
• Cheapest Oriental Pearl Tower ticket: the $36.49 entry with transfers, but with no reviews, so keep the free cancellation.
• Highest deck from Oriental Pearl Tower tickets: the TravelChinaGuide ticket at $42.90 with the 3-sphere option up to 351 m.
• Sunset or night: any entry ticket for a slot 45 to 60 minutes before sunset, such as the CHINA FACE skywalk ticket at $50.
• A meal with the view: the Xinlan ticket at $53.16 with the 267 m buffet, knowing it has one review.
• Hotel pickup: the WukongTravel experience at $69.95, the most reviewed listing at 21.