Wuhou Shrine tickets for foreigners: the short answer
Book online with your passport, and bring the same passport to the gate. The full price is ¥50 per person. Tickets go on sale 14 days ahead on the museum's official ticketing site and its official WeChat account (成都武侯祠). If you can't pay with WeChat Pay or Alipay, there is a cash window at the shrine, described below.
Wuhou Shrine (武侯祠) is in Chengdu. For the wider trip, see our Chengdu travel guide.
How much are Wuhou Shrine tickets?
The English ticket page lists CNY 50 per person. The Chinese ticket page gives the same full price, plus ¥25 for a half-price ticket and ¥100 for an annual pass. The Chinese booking rules say these prices don't apply to special events run by the museum, such as the Chengdu Temple Fair (成都大庙会) and International Museum Day on 18 May.
The annual pass is ¥100 per person per year. Foreigners buy it at the window east of the main gate with a permanent-resident card or a passport. It can't be used on national statutory holidays or special events, and it allows two entries a day (morning and afternoon). An unused pass can be refunded within 90 days of purchase. A one-trip visitor will rarely need it.
How to book Wuhou Shrine tickets with a foreign passport
- Open the museum's ticketing site or its WeChat account. Both are official. The museum names no other channel.
- Pick your visit date. Tickets are pre-sold 14 days in advance.
- Enter your passport details exactly as printed. The museum warns that if the identity information is wrong, you will not be let in.
- Pay. Online ticketing accepts only WeChat and Alipay.
- Keep the order QR code, or the booking notice that arrives by email, for the gate.
Each ID can book one ticket per visit day. The English page says one account can book for up to 20 people a day. The Chinese booking rules and the May Day 2026 notice say 8 people. The museum's pages give different limits (20 and 8), so plan a large group around the lower figure.
The booking system is shut for maintenance from 23:00 to 01:00 Beijing time (15:00-17:00 UTC). If you see a maintenance page outside those hours, the museum says to refresh.
Third-party sellers
The museum says it has never authorised any third-party organisation or individual to sell its tickets. It will not handle after-sale problems for tickets bought on other platforms.
One more thing from a 2024 article. The Sichuan government site, quoting Sichuan Daily on 2 July 2024, said most Chengdu sights dropped their reservation rule from 1 July 2024. It named eight sites that still limit numbers and need a booking in advance. Wuhou Shrine was one. So was the Chengdu Panda Base. That article is old, so rely on the museum's own current rules.
No WeChat Pay or Alipay: can I buy a Wuhou Shrine ticket with cash?
The English ticket page says yes. Visitors who can't pay through WeChat or Alipay can show their passports at the On-site Service Window and buy a ticket in cash. The English page gives the service window's hours as 09:00-18:00 daily, and in its rules for young children it places the Integrated Service Window next to the Self-service Ticket Hall. The Chinese pages place it east of the main gate of the relic area (文物区正大门东侧综合服务窗口).
Two limits. First, the Chinese ticket pages mention buying at the window only for students over 23, press-card holders and annual passes, so they don't confirm the cash route for ordinary full-price tickets. Second, the museum's extended-hours notice says visits must be booked online beforehand. Online booking is the safer plan. Use the window as a fallback.
Wuhou Shrine opening hours and last entry
The museum's pages give different hours, and one of them has an end date. The extended hours run until 7 October 2026.
| Period | Opening hours | Last entry | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 May to 7 October 2026 | 8:30-18:30 daily | 17:30 | Museum notice dated 2026-04-24; the Chinese home page shows the same times |
| Regular hours, which should apply again from 8 October | 09:00-18:00 Beijing time | 17:00 | Chinese ticket page and booking rules |
| English ticket page | The English page lists different hours | English ticket page, which doesn't match the Chinese pages | |
| 2-6 October 2025 (ended) | 8:30-19:00, relic area | Ticket sales stop at 18:00 | Museum notice dated 2025-10-02 |
No notice in the museum's list says what the hours are from 8 October 2026. The regular Chinese-page hours should apply again, but check the museum's notices before you go. The museum itself says summer extended hours and special events can differ, and that its real-time notice governs. The 2025 row shows how it works: holiday changes are announced at short notice and cover a few days only.
Wuhou Shrine ticket discounts: kids, students and over-60s
Many discounts on the Chinese pages are written for Chinese ID cards. Here is who is covered, and what the pages leave open.
Children and teenagers
The museum's pages disagree. The English page says minors aged 6-18 buy half-price tickets (CNY 25) with a passport. Minors aged 6-14 must come with an adult guardian, who pays full price. Children under 6, or up to and including 1.3 m tall, enter free: you show their passports at the Integrated Service Window and swap them for a ticket, with an adult guardian who pays full price.
The Chinese pages put everyone under 18 in the free group. Passport holders exchange for a free ticket at the service window. The ticket page says 18周岁（不含）以下, which means under 18. The booking rules say 18周岁（不含）及以下, which contradicts itself. Both Chinese pages say children under 14 need a guardian who buys a ticket, and one adult can bring at most 3 children aged 14 or under. If you travel with a child aged 6-17, call the ticket hotline, 028-85535951, before you go. The English page lists the hotline as staffed 09:00-18:00; the Chinese ticket page says 09:00-17:00 Beijing time.
Students
The half-price student ticket on the Chinese pages is for full-time students aged 18-23 in undergraduate study or below, who book online. University students over 23 can buy a student ticket only at the service window east of the relic area's main gate, with the required documents. The half-price ticket needs a valid ID plus a student card or enrolment proof. The IDs listed are the Chinese resident ID, the Hong Kong and Macao permit, the Taiwan permit and the Chinese permanent-resident ID card for foreigners. A passport is not on the list, and the English page has no student discount. So the pages don't show a student discount for a foreign student who holds only a passport.
Visitors aged 60 and over
The Chinese pages give free entry to mainland visitors aged 60 and over by ID card. Foreigners are listed only if they hold permanent-resident status (外国人永久居留身份). A passport is not listed, so don't count on a free ticket as a foreign tourist.
The other free categories on the Chinese page (disabled visitors, serving military, veterans, some Chengdu teachers and others) are written around an ID card (身份证) and local cards. None of them names a passport.
How to get in with a passport booking
Go to the main gate (South Gate). The English page says to scan the order QR code, or the QR code in the booking-notice email, at the ticket barrier. The Chinese booking rules say foreign visitors show their passport and the order QR code at the gate. Paper tickets bought on site are checked at the same barrier. The pages name no other entrance for ordinary visitors.
Half-price minors must also show the passport they booked with. The English page says minors without original valid documents that match the discount will not be admitted. Annual-pass holders are checked at the side door of the main gate (正大门侧门).
Luggage: the museum's FAQ says there is self-service storage in the Visitor Center and a staffed counter to the right inside the main gate.
Wuhou Shrine on a Chinese public holiday
Holidays change the rules. For the 2026 May Day holiday, the museum moved to online-only real-name booking. Time slots were 8:30-11:00, 11:00-13:00, 13:00-15:00 and 15:00-17:30, and once the day's quota was full you could not book even on site. That notice mentions the service window only for free tickets, so it doesn't say whether a passport holder could still pay cash there.
The museum's ticketing-site notice list, whose newest items are dated 2026-04-28, has no notice for the 2026 National Day holiday. The 2025 list does have one, dated 2025-10-01, on online-only ticket booking for the Mid-Autumn and National Day holiday. If you visit on a public holiday, book online in advance and don't rely on the window.
Wuhou Shrine refunds and no-show rules
The English page says an unused online ticket can be refunded through the original channel before 22:00 on the visit day, or the system refunds it automatically at 22:00. Money reaches your payment account within 5 working days. Used tickets can't be refunded. Paper tickets bought on site must be refunded at the service window before 18:00 on the visit day.
The English page doesn't mention no-shows. The Chinese booking rules do:
- Refund before 17:00 on the visit day: not counted as a no-show.
- Refund between 17:00 and 22:00, or the automatic refund after 22:00: counts as one no-show.
- Three no-shows within 60 days without good reason: you can't book for 90 days.
The May Day 2026 notice moved the cutoff for refunds without a no-show penalty to 16:30 for that holiday.
How to get to Wuhou Shrine by metro or bus
The museum's Chinese traffic page is its current guidance:
- Metro Line 10: Wuhou Shrine (Jinli) station (武侯祠（锦里）站), Exit A2, about 3 minutes' walk.
- Metro Lines 3 and 5: Gaoshengqiao station (高升桥站), Exit A, about 10 minutes' walk.
- City buses: 1, 57, 82, 334, 335 and G97.
- Tourist bus lines: High-speed rail tourist line 2, Airport tourist line 1, Jincheng sightseeing line 1 and Night-tour sightseeing line 3.
The English traffic page is older. It lists only Line 3 to Gaoshengqiao Exit A and buses 1, 57, 82, 334 and 335. Both pages list direct scenic-area shuttles from Shuangliu airport, Chengdu East bus station, Kuanzhai Alleys, Du Fu Thatched Cottage, Jinsha Site, Chengdu IFS, Chunxi Road, Taikoo Li, Dujiangyan and Sanxingdui. Arriving by train? Our Chengdu railway stations guide helps you pick the right station.
If you drive, the museum's parking lot is the Southern suburb underground car park at No.231 Wuhouci Street, Wuhou District, with 865 spaces. The English page says it starts at RMB 5.00 for the first two hours, then RMB 1.00 an hour.
Is Jinli Ancient Street included in the Wuhou Shrine ticket?
Neither the museum's Jinli page nor its English and Chinese ticket pages says whether Jinli is included in the shrine ticket. The museum's Jinli page (锦里) says the old street next to the shrine was built by the museum and is part of the Chengdu Wuhou Shrine Museum, along with the Three Kingdoms relic area and the West Area. It is 550 m long and opened in October 2004, with an extension in January 2009. The museum's visitor-information page also covers the relic area, West Area and Jinli street together, with a maximum capacity of 186,170 people.
None of the official pages used for this guide gives a Jinli entry price, or says whether the ¥50 shrine ticket covers it. Don't assume either way. If it matters to your plan, ask the ticket hotline, 028-85535951.
