Mutianyu Great Wall Tickets: Prices, Cable Car and Passport Booking

A Mutianyu Great Wall visit is three separate tickets: admission, RMB 40; the shuttle bus between the service area and the wall, RMB 15 return; and the cable car, RMB 100 one way or RMB 140 return. The official shop sells them one by one or as a bundle for RMB 200, read on 11 October 2026. Tickets are real-name, a passport is accepted, and booking opens 30 days ahead. Let us handle your ticket booking for CNY 45 per person, plus the face-value ticket. Send your date as soon as it is set so we can prepare before tickets open.

The scenic area’s rules say the admission policy covers the wall only. The shuttle, the cable car, the chairlift and the toboggan are each paid for separately. The shuttle station is about 3 km from the ticket gate, which is why the shop recommends the bus.

Is the toboggan included with the cable car?

No. The official rules say the cable car belongs to one company and the chairlift and toboggan to another, and that their tickets cannot be used on each other. A return cable car ticket means coming back the way you went up. Chairlift and toboggan ticket holders enter by the toboggan ticket gate, cable car holders by the north ticket gate. The official shop did not list chairlift or toboggan tickets when we read it, so confirm the seller and the price before you count on the slide down.

Can you book with a foreign passport?

Yes, by the scenic area’s own rules. Admission is sold by real-name reservation, and each ID, whether a Chinese ID card, a foreign permanent-resident card or a passport, can hold one admission ticket a day. A visitor who ordered with a foreign passport does not exchange anything at a window: you show the original passport at the gate you booked. We read the shop without registering, so we cannot say whether a non-Chinese mobile number can open an account or which payment methods it accepts.

1. Choose the date. Tickets can be booked up to 30 days ahead, and the shop shows how many admission and cable car tickets remain for each day.
2. Choose the entry window. For 13 October the shop offered 08:30–12:00 and 12:00–17:00.
3. Add each traveller with the name and passport number exactly as printed. One mobile number registers one account, and every ticket needs its own traveller’s details.
4. Decide on the shuttle and the cable car now or on the day; they are separate tickets, or one bundle.
5. Know the refund rule: an unused ticket can be refunded or moved to another date on the purchase platform until midnight on the visit date. After that it cannot be refunded, changed or used.

Opening hours by season

Ticket sales stop an hour before closing and ticket checks half an hour before. The cable car keeps the same hours. By day, towers 1 to 20 are open; the night opening covers towers 10 to 15. The scenic area closes fully or in part in thunderstorms, heavy rain, snow, hail, fog or strong wind, and posts closures on its notice page, so look at it on the morning of your visit.