Ghibli Park tickets: how to buy them from overseas, Premium or Standard, what they cost and when they go on sale

How to buy Ghibli Park tickets

The park's English ticket page is short on the main rule: "*Please note that park tickets cannot be purchased at any area of Ghibli Park." There is no ticket window at the gates and no queue for same-day passes. If you arrive without a ticket, you can walk around the free parts of the surrounding park, which are covered further down, but you cannot go into any of the five Ghibli areas.

For people buying from outside Japan, the same page names two sellers:

1. Lawson Ticket. The online ticket service of Lawson, one of Japan's big convenience-store chains. The park's ticket page links to its sales pages for buyers from overseas.
2. Klook. An online booking company for travel and activities, which the park lists next to Lawson Ticket as an official seller.

Use the links on the park's own ticket page to reach either seller, so that you know you are on the right sales page. People who live in Japan buy from a different set of pages, and some ticket types are sold in Japan only; those are mentioned below so that you are not puzzled when you see them.

There is no phone sale. The ticket page says so in plain words: "*Ticket reservations/purchases cannot be made over the phone." The park does run an enquiry line in English and six other languages, and its number is on the ticket page.

Ghibli Park is not the Ghibli Museum

This is the mistake the park itself warns about first. The top of its ticket page reads: "This is a ticket page for Ghibli PARK in Aichi, not for Ghibli MUSEUM, Mitaka (Tokyo). Ghibli Park tickets are not valid at Ghibli Museum, Mitaka, and vice versa."

The two are in different cities (Tokyo and Nagoya are about 100 minutes apart by Shinkansen), and they sell tickets on different days at different times. If the place you want is the small museum in Tokyo, our Ghibli Museum tickets guide has its prices, sale dates and closed days.

Premium or Standard: which Ghibli Park ticket to buy

Both passes are called O-Sanpo Day Passes. O-sanpo is Japanese for a stroll. The difference is how many of the five areas you can enter.

The park's own descriptions are worth reading because they say who each pass is for. For Premium: "If you're in the mood for gluttony, this all-access pass is for you." For Standard: "If you don't know where to start, this pass is the one for you."

What is in each of the five areas

The park's "What is Ghibli Park?" page describes the five areas like this.

The price gap, worked out

With a Standard pass you can still go inside the three buildings in Valley of Witches, one by one, if you get a same-day ticket for each at the park. For one adult on a weekday:

So the 2,200 yen between the two buys Hill of Youth, Dondoko Forest, the two houses inside them, re-entry to every area, and freedom from the same-day ticket queue, which can sell out. If you would only ever use Standard plus one building, the gap is bigger, at 3,000 yen or more.

How much are Ghibli Park tickets?

The prices on the park's English ticket page, checked on 15 October 2026. They include tax.

Three notes from the same page:

• Children aged 0 to 3 are free, and the page adds that they "should not be counted as a member in the party". You do not buy a ticket for them.
• A service charge is added on top: "In addition to admission, a service charge will be applied when tickets are issued." The page does not give the amount, so look at the total on the sales page before you pay.
• No discounts. "*Discounted tickets are not available, including for groups or early booking." The one exception is half price for a visitor with a disability certificate and one companion; show the certificate (or a photocopy) and your passport at the entrance.

Weekend prices also apply on Japanese public holidays. Several fall on weekdays in the months ahead, and the park's calendar marks them with weekend opening hours: Tuesday 3 November and Monday 23 November 2026, Monday 11 January, Thursday 11 February, Tuesday 23 February and Monday 22 March 2027. Our Japanese public holidays page lists the rest.

What a family pays

Tickets are priced in yen only, and this site does not quote exchange rates. For two adults, a 10-year-old and a 5-year-old:

A child aged 3 or under with the same family would add nothing. Bring the passport of the person whose name is on the tickets; the ID rules are further down.

When do Ghibli Park tickets go on sale?

Two months before the month of your visit, on the 10th, at 14:00 Japan time. The park's ticket page gives the same line for both passes: "This pass goes on sale two months in advance, on the 10th at 2 p.m. (Japan time)". Every open day of a month is released together, so a visit on 2 January and a visit on 30 January both go on sale at the same moment on 10 November.

Japan Standard Time is nine hours ahead of UTC all year, because Japan does not change its clocks. Your own country may change its clocks, so the gap moves by an hour in spring. The table gives the on-sale moment for each month of visit in four cities.

The local times were worked out for this guide from the official clock-change dates for the UK, the United States and New South Wales, which are listed in the sources. Midnight in New York means the very start of the 10th, so set the alarm for the night of the 9th. Passes for December 2026 went on sale on Saturday 10 October 2026.

The ticket page also warns: "The dates tickets go on sale and sale periods are subject to change." Check it again a few days before your sale date.

How far in advance can you buy?

Between about 7 and 12 weeks. Because a whole month is released two months ahead, a pass for 1 January 2027 goes on sale 52 days before the visit and a pass for 31 January 82 days before. There is no earlier sale for visitors from overseas, so if your trip is six months away, the job for now is to note the right 10th. The tours with tickets included, covered further down, keep their own booking calendars.

Closed days and opening hours

Most of Ghibli Park's closed days are Tuesdays. When a Tuesday is a public holiday, the park's calendar shows it open and the Wednesday after it closed instead. It also shuts for a run of days at the start of December and over the New Year. The table was counted from the park's English calendar on 15 October 2026.

In what is left of October 2026, the park is closed on Tuesdays 20 and 27. Two Tuesdays in the table are open: 3 November 2026 and 23 February 2027, which are both public holidays, and Tuesday 24 November 2026 is open too, with Monday 30 November closed instead.

Opening hours

The last entry to each area, except Ghibli's Grand Warehouse, is 16:30. A public holiday on a weekday has the weekend hours and the weekend price, as listed in the price section above. The calendar adds that "Dates and hours of operation are subject to change and will be posted."

If your dates touch a Japanese public holiday, our holiday calendar shows which days those are.

On the day: entry times, wristbands and re-entry

Your pass is an electronic ticket with a QR code. Only one area has a fixed entry time, and it is the one both passes share.

Ghibli's Grand Warehouse has a set entry time

When you buy, you choose one of these entry times for the warehouse:

The rule for that slot is strict: "Please enter Ghibli's Grand Warehouse no later than one hour after your reservation time. Early entry is not allowed." The other areas take visitors at any time from opening until the last entry at 16:30.

Premium: the wristband

With a Premium pass, staff scan your QR code at the first area you visit and give you a wristband. From then on you show the wristband at each area. Three rules matter:

Re-entry is allowed for every area, with one limit: "Re-entry to Ghibli's Grand Warehouse is available after 3:00 p.m. only."

Standard: three areas, one way back in

With a Standard pass, you enter Mononoke Village and Valley of Witches with your whole party at any time between opening and 16:30, and you may have to queue if others are waiting. The ticket page is brief on re-entry: "*Re-entry is possible only for Valley of Witches."

When the areas are busiest

The park's waiting-time page says that "*Hill of Youth is expected to be crowded after 3:00 p.m." and that Dondoko Forest is the same. The ticket page adds: "Especially, Hill of Youth and Dondoko Forest are expected to be very crowded after 4:00 p.m. until closing time (5:00 p.m.)." With a Premium pass, go to those two areas in the morning or early afternoon, and leave the warehouse, which you can re-enter after 15:00, for later in the day. The same page notes that the bakery in Valley of Witches may close when everything has sold out.

Same-day tickets for Valley of Witches

Three buildings in Valley of Witches need an extra ticket if you hold a Standard pass: Okino Residence from Kiki's Delivery Service, Howl's Castle, and The House of Witches from Earwig and the Witch. Premium holders go in without one. These are the only tickets of any kind sold inside the park.

Since 1 July 2026, the voucher has been required for every same-day ticket. The prices, with no service charge added:

Activities that cost extra on both passes

The grilled gohei-mochi workshop at Tatara-ba in Mononoke Village (for ages 10 and over), the Carousel and the Flying Machine in Valley of Witches are paid for separately, whichever pass you hold. Lord Okkoto, the walking trail in Dondoko Forest, the Carousel and the Flying Machine may stop in the rain. The Cat Bus Room and Children's Town in the warehouse, and Dondoko-do in Dondoko Forest, are for children aged 12 and under.

The rules on names, ID, changes and resale

This is where Ghibli Park is stricter than most attractions. The rules below are all on its English ticket page and in its FAQ.

The page is also clear about resale sites: "*Visitors whose tickets appear to have been purchased through auction (or other unofficial means) will be denied entry." Buy from Lawson Ticket, Klook or a tour that includes tickets, and nowhere else.

The FAQ adds one exception to "no refunds": if the park has to close because of the weather, it will consider a refund and post a notice. Tickets that are lost, damaged or stolen are not reissued.

Ticket types you will see but cannot buy

The park's FAQ also mentions area tickets and a Satoyama Day Pass, each marked "domestic purchase only". If a search result shows one of those, it is not open to you from overseas. The two O-Sanpo Day Passes above are the passes for visitors from abroad.

Tours and hotel plans with tickets included

If you would rather not deal with the sale on the 10th, the park's ticket page points to plans that include a pass: "Convenient tickets that include accommodation within Aichi Prefecture are available for purchase through JTB, Viator, KKday, and other travel agencies that offer Sunrise Tours JTB."

On 15 October 2026, the Ghibli page of JTB's Sunrise Tours listed these kinds of plans:

Tour prices and dates change, and this guide does not list them. These plans are booked on the tour company's own pages and calendars, not on the 10th.

What you can see without a ticket

The five Ghibli areas sit inside a much larger public park, Expo 2005 Aichi Commemorative Park, the site of the 2005 World Expo in Aichi. The park's page on it is clear: "No tickets or entry fees are required for Expo 2005 Aichi Commemorative Park." So if you are in Nagoya on a day you have no pass, or the sale has gone, these are still open to you.

Ghibli Park or the Ghibli Museum?

If you can only do one, the difference is mostly about where you are. The Ghibli Museum is one building in Mitaka, west Tokyo; Ghibli Park is a day out across a large park near Nagoya. The museum sells a month of tickets on the 10th of the month before at 10:00 Japan time; the park sells on the 10th two months before at 14:00. Neither sells tickets at the door, and the tickets do not work at the other. Our Ghibli Museum tickets guide covers the museum, and our Japan for anime fans guide shows where both fit in a wider trip.

How to get to Ghibli Park

Ghibli Park is in Nagakute, a city east of Nagoya, not in Tokyo. The park's directions page has one line for the train: "Take Linimo (Aichi Rapid Transit Co., Ltd Tobu Kyuryo Line) to Ai-Chikyuhaku Kinen Koen. The park is just outside the station from Exit 2."

JTB's Sunrise Tours page gives the whole trip as "Approx. 1 hour from Nagoya Station (via Higashiyama Subway Line and Tobu Kyuryo Line (Linimo))". Linimo's own fare table puts the Linimo part at 400 yen for adults and 200 yen for children from Fujigaoka. From Tokyo, the same JTB page says Nagoya is "about 100 min from JR Tokyo Station via Nozomi Shinkansen and about 50 min from JR Shin-Osaka Station". Our Shinkansen tickets guide covers that leg.

Walking distances inside the park

The areas are spread out, and you walk between them on paths through the wider park. The distances from the park's FAQ:

From the warehouse it is about 200 m to Hill of Youth, 400 m to Valley of Witches, 600 m to Mononoke Village and 550 to 850 m to Dondoko Forest. A Premium day that covers all five areas adds up to a few kilometres on foot, and the park's FAQ tells visitors to wear good walking shoes.

Rules inside: bags, photos, food and payment

The FAQ also covers the weather: in summer, which it counts as May to mid-October, take care against heatstroke, and in winter the temperature can drop below 0°C, with snow on some days.

With children or a wheelchair

Nappy-changing tables are in every area, and the nursing rooms are in Ghibli's Grand Warehouse and Valley of Witches. Pushchairs and wheelchairs can be borrowed at the North Gate and the West Gate. You cannot take a pushchair or an umbrella inside the buildings. Most of the park can be visited in a wheelchair, but parts of Satsuki and Mei's House cannot. The warehouse cinema has some showings a day with Japanese subtitles, and four wheelchair spaces. Our Japan with kids guide has more on travelling with small children.

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