Hoi An ancient town ticket: 2026 fee, old tiers and validity

Hoi An ancient town ticket price

Official sources disagree. The newest is the city council's Resolution 98/2026/NQ-HĐND, passed on 31 July 2026. We read its full text on 13 October 2026; the Da Nang city portal and the newspapers Nhan Dan and Bao Da Nang reported it in early August.

Neither the resolution nor the three reports says whether the ticket tiers are withdrawn or how the per-building fee is sold at the booth. The resolution only tells the city to collect the fee in a way that is convenient for visitors and to use information technology to cut paperwork. Until the heritage center updates its notice, ask at the booth which price applies before you pay.

On paper the new fee is lower for a short visit. At VND 20,000 a building, three buildings come to VND 60,000 and five come to VND 100,000. The other sight fees we track are on the Vietnam travel costs page.

What each Hoi An ancient town ticket includes

The resolution covers sightseeing fees for the cultural buildings and museums of the Ancient Town, so under it you pay for each one you go into.

The heritage center's English notice describes the lower tier as one monument and two other monuments of your choice. The higher tier adds the museum system: one monument, a choice of museums and three more monuments.

The older page gives a different summary. It says the VND 80,000 ticket covers three sites and the VND 120,000 ticket covers five, selected from more than 23 places. That is a dated total from the 2020 page. The newer notice breaks down the contents of each tier but gives no current total for all selectable sites.

Vietnam Tourism, the national tourism site, describes Hoi An as a major Southeast Asian trading post from the 15th to the 19th centuries. Its page on the town's history picks out the Japanese Bridge at the center of the Ancient Town, Tan Ky as one of the most famous old houses and the Phuc Kien (Fujian) Assembly Hall as the best known of the assembly halls.

If you are sold a ticket tier, the choice comes down to whether you want the museums. Our Hoi An and Da Nang overview covers the rest of the area, and the Hue or Da Nang comparison helps if you are still choosing a base.

How long is a Hoi An old town ticket valid?

The heritage center's English notice says one ticket is valid throughout your stay in Hoi An, up to three days. The reports on the August resolution do not mention validity.

The 24-hour validity that many guides repeat comes from the older page, where it sits under a separate section for the Tra Que vegetable village ticket, not under the Ancient Town ticket. The notice does not say what happens if you stay longer than three days.

If you do buy a tier, you can spread its sites across your stay. UNESCO's film on Hoi An Ancient Town, made with NHK, shows the streets and houses you will be visiting.

The [Vietnam trip planning page](/vietnam/plan) collects the other things to sort out before you go.

Hoi An ancient town ticket office and map

A center story published on 17 March 2025 places ticket-selling offices at the entrances to the old town. It does not give street addresses for individual booths. The official visitor map has a contact block for the heritage center at 10B Tran Hung Dao. That is the center's office, not a ticket booth.

The 2020 ticket page lists general visitor-service hours from 07:30 to 21:30. It does not label those as the opening hours for every sales office, and the newer notices give no counter schedule.

Walking hours and discounts

Parts of the town are closed to motor vehicles at set hours. If you are going in autumn, our central Vietnam in October article has the rain records for the area. An official visitor guide dated May 2023 gives these summer and winter hours, and the 2026 notice lists the same times.

The February resolution lists who pays no fee: children under 16 and school pupils, Vietnamese citizens aged 60 and over, Vietnamese citizens with a disability certificate, people covered by the national cultural-benefit policy, and diplomatic guests. The Vietnamese notice repeats that list. The August resolution rewrites only the fee table, the names of the Cham sites and the collection clause, so that exemption list still stands. The English notice still shows an older list, with elderly people under a 50 percent discount marked for Vietnamese visitors. Neither notice lists a senior rate for foreign visitors.

For getting there, see our closest airport to Hoi An guide, which compares Da Nang with the other airports. If you're timing the visit around the monthly lantern night, the Hoi An lantern festival dates list has each one. The Cham temples at My Son are not on this ticket; their own management board sells a separate one, set out in what the My Son Sanctuary ticket costs.

Asked whether Hoi An is worth a long detour, one r/VietNam user described their day there:

"I had fun, the streets and lanterns were pretty, and there were some fun shops (some shopkeepers were quite aggressive, which marred the experience somewhat)."

u/eyesore1981 on r/VietNam

What we could not confirm

The national legal database still wouldn't load for our reader on 13 October 2026, so the resolution text we read is the copy on LuatVietnam, a legal publisher. It matches the city portal's summary on the fee, the start date and the collection clause.

None of those sources says whether the VND 80,000 and VND 120,000 tiers are still sold after 10 August 2026, how the per-building fee is collected at the booth, or how long a per-building payment is valid.

We found no current opening hours for each ticket booth and no official booth directory. The older page's visitor-service window is not a current counter schedule, and the center's map address is not a ticket booth.

The Vietnamese notice is dated 26 January 2026, but its eligibility section cites a resolution dated 11 February 2026, and the page does not say when it was last updated.

Our take on the Hoi An ancient town ticket

The fee the city has set is VND 20,000 for each building, whatever your passport. Pick the buildings you actually want, such as one assembly hall, one old house and one museum, and expect to pay about VND 60,000. If the booth still sells the tiers, the VND 80,000 one fits a short walk with a few houses and the VND 120,000 one is for museums. Either way, ask which price you are paying before you hand over cash.

How we checked this

We read 13 pages: six from Hoi An's heritage center and the Da Nang city heritage site (the 2020 ticket page, the Vietnamese and English 2026 notices, the 2023 visitor guide, the 2025 ticket-office story and the visitor map), read on 2026-10-07 and 2026-10-08; two Vietnam Tourism pages on the old town, read on 2026-10-12; on 2026-10-12, the Da Nang city portal and three newspaper reports on the February and August fee resolutions; and on 2026-10-13, the full text of the August resolution. We re-read both heritage notices on 2026-10-13 to confirm they still list the two tiers. On 2026-10-21 we read the city portal, the newspaper reports and both notices again: the per-building fee was still the latest, and both notices still listed the two tiers. Every price, date and time in this article matches a line in our source log. Last reviewed 2026-10-21.

References

• Nghị quyết 98/2026/NQ-HĐND Đà Nẵng: full text of the August 2026 resolution on LuatVietnam, passed 31 July 2026, in force 10 August 2026, read 13 October 2026.
• Từ 10-8, áp dụng mức phí tham quan 20.000 - 40.000 đồng: Da Nang city portal on Resolution 98/2026/NQ-HĐND, posted 6 August 2026, checked October 2026.
• Đà Nẵng điều chỉnh phí tham quan các công trình văn hóa và di sản: Nhan Dan, 7 August 2026, checked October 2026.
• Từ ngày 10/8, áp dụng mức phí tham quan 20.000 - 40.000 đồng: Bao Da Nang, 7 August 2026, checked October 2026.
• Thống nhất mức thu phí tham quan tại các công trình văn hóa, bảo tàng: Bao Van Hoa on the February 2026 resolution, 11 February 2026, checked October 2026.
• Vé tham quan Hội An: heritage center ticket page, dated 24 February 2020, checked October 2026.
• Những thông tin cần biết về vé tham quan Đô thị cổ Hội An: Vietnamese ticket notice, dated 26 January 2026, checked 13 October 2026.
• Announcement of the visiting in Hoi An Ancient Town: English ticket notice, posted January 2026, checked October 2026.
• Thông tin du lịch Hội An: visitor guide with pedestrian hours, dated 9 May 2023, checked October 2026.
• Hội An, nơi mỗi vé tham quan góp phần bảo tồn văn hóa: center story locating ticket offices, dated 17 March 2025, checked October 2026.
• Vietnam Tourism, the best ways to explore the ancient town of Hoi An: national tourism site, trading-port history; checked October 2026.
• Vietnam Tourism, historic Hoi An: national tourism site, Japanese Bridge, Tan Ky and Phuc Kien; checked October 2026.
• UNESCO, Hoi An Ancient Town (UNESCO/NHK): UNESCO's official video on the site.
• Bản đồ tham quan: official visitor map and heritage center contact block, undated, checked October 2026.

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