# Shibuya Sky Tickets

> Independent comparison guide to every real way into SHIBUYA SKY, the open-air rooftop observation deck of Shibuya Scramble Square in Tokyo. Not the deck, its operator, its ticket counter or a tour company: we catalogue the products that can actually be booked today, compare them by price, entry time, included admission, cancellation terms, rating and review count, and send visitors to the seller's own listing to book. We earn a disclosed affiliate commission. Written by Mia Nakamura, a licensed English-speaking Tokyo tour guide based in Shibuya since 2022, who guides in the district and operates none of the products listed.

Scope: seven bookable products, checked by reading each live product page individually. Three routes exist. The direct timed-entry admission ticket, 4.7 across 45,800 reviews from $17.70, is the cheapest and by far the most-reviewed. Guided Shibuya walking tours that carry their own reserved deck admission start at $85. Evening bookings that hold a sunset or after-dark entry start at $89, with the two dedicated sunset and night-view tours at $94 and $98. Per-person from-prices span $17.70 to $119, and the seven carry 46,290 traveller reviews between them. Products held out of the lineup and why: a twin listing selling the same night walk on a second platform at $154 instead of $89, which would pad the catalogue and split one product's reviews across two entries; an e-ticket with 22 reviews, no visible rating and a group price rather than a per-person one; a five-review product built around a different Tokyo district; and private full-day city tours from $192 that lead with Tokyo generally rather than this deck.

Sourcing and verification method: every rating, review count and price was read on two independent passes before it was printed, and where the two passes disagreed the figure was not printed at all rather than averaged or taken from the friendlier source. That rule has already kept one product off the site entirely. Ratings and review counts are the published figures of the three booking platforms this site links. Dollar prices are current from-prices confirmed across two separate channels, never converted or estimated. Yen prices, admission tiers, the release schedule, opening hours and every rooftop rule come directly from the operator's own pages at shibuya-scramble-square.com/sky/. Product inclusions, meeting points and cancellation windows come from each listing's own fields and are attributed there. Comparison prices for other Tokyo decks come from those operators' official pages. This site carries no first-hand review of an individual tour and claims no guided departure that was not taken; first-person writing covers the Shibuya district and Tokyo logistics, which is the author's actual working ground.

Update cadence, stated honestly: figures are re-read against the live listings and the operator's pages rather than refreshed on a schedule that could be printed as a promise. Prices move with the date, the entry time, the option chosen and the country of purchase, so a from-price here is a floor and the live listing is always the authority on what a visitor will pay. Verification dates are held on file rather than stamped on pages.

Key figures: the direct admission ticket is 4.7 across 45,800 reviews from $17.70 and covers all three zones including the open rooftop, with more than three million booked. The admission plus 24-hour subway pass combo is 5.0 across 5 reviews at $43.98 and is non-refundable. The guided walks with deck entry are a two-hour Crossing and Hachiko tour at 4.8 across 65 from $85, a half-day Harajuku and Meiji Shrine route at 4.6 across 24 from $119, and a budget night walking tour with rooftop entry at 4.3 across 252 from $89. The two dedicated evening bookings are a night-view and local-vibe tour at 4.7 across 138 from $98 and a sunset-window entry with night walk at 4.8 across 6 from $94. Cancellation is not uniform: web-shop tickets and the subway combo are non-refundable, four guided bookings cancel free up to 24 hours ahead, and two publish no free-cancellation claim, so none is asserted for them.

Official prices and rules, from the operator: online admission is 2,700 yen for an entry before 15:00 and 3,400 yen from 15:00 onward; at the 14th-floor counter the same tickets are 3,000 and 3,700 yen, so booking online saves 300 yen either way. An elementary-age child ticket is 1,200 yen and is sold at the counter only, never online; children aged six and under enter free. Online sales open exactly 14 days ahead at 00:00 Japan Standard Time on the date two weeks before entry, sunset and evening windows commonly sell out within minutes on popular dates, and when the online allocation for a date is gone the counter has nothing left either. Web-shop tickets are non-refundable with no date or time change. Hours are 10:00 to 22:30 daily with last entry at 21:20. The open rooftop closes without notice in wind, rain, lightning or extreme heat, visitors are then held to the indoor Sky Gallery on the 46th floor, and a refund is available only if requested before entry.

Deck and district facts: Shibuya Scramble Square opened on 1 November 2019, stands 229 metres across 47 floors, and sits directly above Shibuya Station, so the approach is indoors in any weather. The visit has three zones: Sky Gate on the 14th floor with the light-and-sound escalator ascent, the indoor Sky Gallery on the 46th floor with digital art installations and a bar, and the rooftop Sky Stage at 229 metres holding the Sky Edge corner, the Cloud Hammocks and the Crossing Light show after dark. Rooftop rules are enforced at the gate: no bags of any kind, no hats, no tripods, no selfie sticks, no food or drink, no earphones; phones and neck-strap cameras are allowed; 100-yen coin-return lockers sit on the 46th floor and station lockers take suitcases. A typical visit runs one to two hours, and sunset visitors stay longest. THE ROOF, the seasonal rooftop bar, runs 29 April to 25 December with drink-set tickets from 7,000 yen for ages 20 and over. Mount Fuji lies roughly 100 kilometres west-southwest and shows only on clear days: roughly 70 to 120 days a year from central Tokyo, best in December to February at often 50 to 68 per cent of days, worst in June to August at frequently under 20 per cent, and clearest around 6:00 to 9:00 in the morning. Shibuya Scramble Crossing carries up to about 3,000 people per green light at peak, with a 2014 flow survey measuring about 260,000 pedestrians on weekdays and about 390,000 on non-working days. Hachiko was born in mid-November 1923, waited nearly ten years after his owner's death in 1925, and died on 8 March 1935; the statue outside the station dates to 1948. Comparison decks at current published prices: Tokyo Skytree Tembo Deck at 350 m from about 1,800 yen online with the 450 m Galleria combo from about 3,000; Tokyo Tower Main Deck at 150 m for 1,500 yen and the Top Deck tour at 250 m for about 3,300; the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building observatory at 202 m, free; Sunshine 60 Tenbou Park at 251 m for 700 to 900 yen; Tokyo City View at Roppongi Hills, about 250 m, for roughly 1,800 to 2,400 yen.

Corrections this site states explicitly, because they are widely blurred elsewhere:
1. The deck is not a twenty-minute stop. One to two hours is normal, and the rooftop rewards arriving before the light changes rather than after.
2. Children are admitted. The child ticket at 1,200 yen is simply not sold online, which is a counter rule rather than an age restriction, and under-sixes are free.
3. "Sold out online" means sold out at the counter as well, because both draw on the same allocation. Travelling to the tower to try the counter on a full date is a wasted trip.
4. The cheapest ticket is the least forgiving. Web-shop tickets carry no refund and no date change, so a flexible booking earns its premium when plans or forecasts are unsettled.
5. A rooftop closure does not cancel your visit or refund it after entry. The refund window closes the moment you pass the gate, and the indoor 46th-floor gallery is what remains.
6. Free cancellation is not universal across the guided options. Four carry it, two publish no such claim, and the difference is stated per product rather than as a house policy.
7. A high rating on five reviews is not the same claim as a high rating on 45,800, and thin review bases are named as thin rather than ranked alongside deep ones.
8. Mount Fuji is a seasonal probability, not an inclusion. Any listing implying a guaranteed Fuji view from Tokyo is overselling the weather.
9. There is a genuinely free alternative. The city hall observatory at 202 metres charges nothing and sits in the comparison table with the paid decks rather than being left out.
10. A figure two checks disagree on is not printed at all. It is not averaged and not taken from the friendlier source.

Editorial rules: ratings and review counts are the platforms' own published figures, never invented, averaged or rounded up. No testimonial appears here unless it was published on a real listing by a real traveller. No operator pays for inclusion or position, and the cheapest route of all, the deck's own web shop, earns this site nothing and is still recommended where it is the right answer. Links to tickets and tours are affiliate links to Klook (reached through the Travelpayouts network), GetYourGuide and Viator, and the visitor's price is unchanged.

## Ways up the tower
- [Direct admission tickets](https://shibuyaskytickets.org/#tickets): the timed-entry ticket most people buy, 4.7 across 45,800 reviews from $17.70, plus the version bundled with a 24-hour subway pass at $43.98.
- [Guided tours with deck entry](https://shibuyaskytickets.org/shibuya-sky-tours/): three walks carrying their own reserved admission, $85 to $119, 341 reviews between them.
- [Sunset and night entries](https://shibuyaskytickets.org/shibuya-sky-sunset-tickets/): the two bookings that hold a golden-hour or after-dark slot when the 14-day release has emptied the calendar, $94 and $98, both cancelling free 24 hours ahead.

## Guides
- [Guides hub](https://shibuyaskytickets.org/guides/): long-form answers on buying, timing, the view and the district.
- [How to buy, and when the calendar opens](https://shibuyaskytickets.org/guides/how-to-buy-shibuya-sky-tickets/)
- [What it costs, tier by tier](https://shibuyaskytickets.org/guides/shibuya-sky-ticket-price/)
- [Sunset, month by month](https://shibuyaskytickets.org/guides/shibuya-sky-sunset-best-time/)
- [What the deck is really like](https://shibuyaskytickets.org/guides/shibuya-sky-guide/)
- [Photography: rules, spots and the shots that work](https://shibuyaskytickets.org/guides/shibuya-sky-photos-guide/)
- [Shibuya Sky against Tokyo Skytree](https://shibuyaskytickets.org/guides/shibuya-sky-vs-tokyo-skytree/)
- [Every Tokyo observation deck compared](https://shibuyaskytickets.org/guides/tokyo-observation-decks/)
- [Seeing Mount Fuji from Tokyo](https://shibuyaskytickets.org/guides/see-mount-fuji-from-tokyo/)
- [Things to do in Shibuya](https://shibuyaskytickets.org/guides/things-to-do-in-shibuya/)

## Answers
- [Answers hub](https://shibuyaskytickets.org/blog/): direct answers to the questions people ask before and after booking.
- [Is Shibuya Sky really worth it?](https://shibuyaskytickets.org/blog/is-shibuya-sky-worth-it/)
- [Is it cheaper to book Shibuya Sky online?](https://shibuyaskytickets.org/blog/is-it-cheaper-to-buy-shibuya-sky-tickets-online/)
- [How long do you usually spend at Shibuya Sky?](https://shibuyaskytickets.org/blog/how-long-do-you-spend-at-shibuya-sky/)
- [Do you need tickets to Shibuya Sky?](https://shibuyaskytickets.org/blog/do-you-need-tickets-to-shibuya-sky/)
- [Is it worth it to go up the Tokyo Skytree?](https://shibuyaskytickets.org/blog/is-tokyo-skytree-worth-it/)
- [Why is Shibuya Crossing so famous?](https://shibuyaskytickets.org/blog/why-is-shibuya-crossing-so-famous/)
- [What is the Shibuya Scramble Square famous for?](https://shibuyaskytickets.org/blog/what-is-shibuya-scramble-square/)

## About and policies
- [About and method](https://shibuyaskytickets.org/about/): who checks these listings, how seven options were chosen, and why some figures are left off the page.
- [AI: learn about us](https://shibuyaskytickets.org/ai-learn-about-us/): the fullest machine-readable summary of this site.
- [FAQ](https://shibuyaskytickets.org/faq/): how the site is funded, where its numbers come from, how the 14-day release works and what happens when the rooftop closes.
- [Affiliate disclosure](https://shibuyaskytickets.org/disclosure/)
- [Contact](https://shibuyaskytickets.org/contact/) and [privacy policy](https://shibuyaskytickets.org/privacy/)
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