Hội An Ancient Town ticket: what it covers, as the heritage centre states it

The short answer

The Hội An old-town ticket is a bundle of visits you choose, issued by the town's World Cultural Heritage Conservation Centre, not an entrance to a single building.[2] On the centre's Vietnamese page, dated 8 May 2023, it comes in two versions: 80,000 VND for the old town's general landscape, one of the Japanese Covered Bridge (Chùa Cầu) or the Quan Công Temple (Miếu Quan Công), and two other cultural sites of your choice; and 120,000 VND for the same landscape and bridge-or-temple choice, a self-chosen visit to the museum system, and three other sites.[1]

The centre's English page, dated 5 April 2024, describes only the 120,000 VND ticket, with "one of museums within the museum system" and three self-selected sites.[2] It does not mention an 80,000 VND ticket. The two pages sit on the same website and disagree, and XTOUR cannot tell from them which one reflects the ticket sold today. Treat both prices as dated statements by the centre, not as current fact.

Who issues it

The ticket pages sit on the website of the Trung tâm Bảo tồn Di sản văn hóa thế giới Hội An, the Hội An World Cultural Heritage Conservation Centre, which gives its address as Số 10B, đường Trần Hưng Đạo, Phường Hội An, TP. Đà Nẵng.[5] In that address Hội An is a ward (phường) of Đà Nẵng city; a centre notice of July 2025 refers to the merger of Quảng Nam province and Đà Nẵng city that lies behind it.[4] It is an administrative fact about the address, not a statement that the old town is part of Đà Nẵng as a place to stay. The Hội An or Đà Nẵng guide and the 2025 province mergers article explain the change.

The Vietnamese page opens by asking visitors to buy the ticket before entering the old town, and calls each ticket a contribution to conserving the town's tangible and intangible heritage.[1] The English page carries the same request.[2]

The property the ticket opens is Hội An Ancient Town, which UNESCO's World Heritage Committee inscribed on 4 December 1999, according to the centre's heritage overview;[6] the session and criteria are set out in Vietnam's World Heritage sites. The same overview counts more than 1,000 historic and cultural relics and calls the old town, still home to thousands of people, a "living museum" of architecture and urban life.[6] XTOUR's reading is that this is why the ticket works as a choice of a few buildings inside a living town rather than as a fenced site.

What each version gives

The fixed element in every version is the choice between two buildings: the Japanese Covered Bridge or the Quan Công Temple, one or the other, not both.[2][1] The rest is chosen from "the remaining sites", a list neither ticket page prints.

The wording on the museum differs. The Vietnamese page's "tham quan tự chọn hệ thống Bảo tàng" reads literally as "a self-chosen visit to the museum system", without a number; the English page says one museum.[2][1] XTOUR's reading is that the English wording is the narrower, and that a visitor wanting more than one museum should ask the centre.

The museum system's own site, which is undated, lists six museums, the Cao Hồng Lãnh memorial house and a display at the Hội An prison relic.[7] It does not say which of them a ticket covers. Its page for the Hội An Museum at 10B Trần Hưng Đạo, dated 7 September 2026, says the museum is temporarily closed for professional work until a reopening is announced.[8] The Hội An museums guide sets them out one by one.

What else the ticket pages mention

Both pages list two activities outside the counted sites. One is a Japanese tea-ceremony demonstration at the Japanese culture exhibition house, 06 Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai, which both pages say is held at set times each day. The other is the "Phố đêm" (Night Streets) programme, which the Vietnamese page describes as the Bài chòi game, folk games, a folk-song class and traditional instruments played in the street; the English page renders Bài chòi as "traditional bingo game".[2][1] The Bài chòi article explains what the game is.

Two notes close both pages, and they are not worded the same. The Vietnamese page asks you to keep the stub after using all its sites "for convenience in going in and out of the old town"; the English page says the stub "may be required for re-entry". The Vietnamese page offers a free guide when you buy eight tickets or more, and the English page offers it to groups of eight visitors or more.[2][1]

The pedestrian-street hours, and where the pages disagree

The ticket pages also ask visitors to respect the "Phố dành cho người đi bộ và xe không động cơ" rule, streets for pedestrians and non-motorised vehicles. They give the old-town hours as 09:00 to 21:30 in summer and 09:00 to 21:00 in winter, and Phan Châu Trinh street as 17:30 to 21:30 in summer and 17:30 to 21:00 in winter.[2][1]

The centre's own page about the scheme tells a longer and different story. It dates the start to 2004, on Saturdays, then traces its extension day by day until it ran every day and night from 1 April 2013. From 13 April 2014, it says, the hours became 09:00 to 11:00 in the morning and 15:00 to 22:00 in the afternoon and evening in summer, to 21:30 in winter. For Phan Châu Trinh it gives the same 17:30 start from 15 May 2023 as the ticket pages, but adds a second phase "dự kiến" (planned) from 1 January 2024, starting at 15:00.[3]

So the centre's pages give two schedules for the old town and two possible start times for Phan Châu Trinh, and none of them says which applies now. XTOUR does not state pedestrian hours as fact.

When the usual rules do not apply

Festival notices can suspend parts of the ticket. The centre's notice for the 2026 Nguyên tiêu festival said that no sightseeing tickets would be sold during the festival for Chùa Ông, Chùa Bà, the Quảng Triệu and Triều Châu assembly halls, Tụy Tiên đường Minh Hương and đình Hội An. That notice places Chùa Ông and Chùa Bà at 24 Trần Phú, and a second festival notice gives the same number for "Quan Công miếu".[10][9] XTOUR's reading is that Chùa Ông is the Quan Công Temple of the ticket's bridge-or-temple choice. That was a rule for those dates in 2026, now past; the Nguyên Tiêu article describes the festival. The monthly "Đêm phố cổ" night, held on the 14th night of each lunar month according to a separate centre notice, is another programme again.[4]

What XTOUR does not know

XTOUR does not know which of the centre's two ticket descriptions is current, the full list of sites a ticket can be used for, the opening hours of individual sites, or whether a ticket is valid for more than one day; none of the pages read on 11 October 2026 states the last two. XTOUR does not sell the ticket and publishes no price as current. For the town itself, see the Hội An destination page; for the country, Vietnam.