Leshan Giant Buddha Tickets: Prices, Passport Entry & Hours

The main Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area entrance ticket is around ¥80, with reduced rates for children, students and seniors. Optional extras — the river sightseeing boat and some connecting transport — are priced and paid separately. Prices shift with the season and policy, so treat these as a guide and confirm the current figure before you go.

Chinese attractions increasingly use real-name ticketing tied to your travel document. For the Giant Buddha, foreign visitors typically don't need a paper ticket or QR code — you register your passport and then scan that same passport at the gate to enter. It's smooth when it works, but the online booking step often fails on Chinese-only apps that expect a local ID, phone number and payment method.

The scenic area generally opens around 07:30 in the busy warmer months and closes in the early evening, with shorter winter hours. The cliff-side stairway down past the Buddha forms a bottleneck — arriving early or later in the afternoon means far less queueing. On peak days the stairway can involve a long, slow wait, which is when the river boat is a good alternative.

Walking the stairway lets you stand right at the Buddha's feet and appreciate its 71-metre scale up close, but it's steep and can be crowded. The river boat gives the postcard head-on view of the whole Buddha from the water in about 30 minutes, with no stair queue. Many visitors do one of the two; we help you choose based on the day's crowds and your mobility.

The most common problem foreign visitors hit isn't the price — it's completing the passport real-name step and choosing the right entry. We book and register your tickets, add shuttle or boat tickets if you want them, and send clear English instructions so you simply show up and scan in.