The Answers · checked 20 September 2026

What the Hundred Scenes charge, and when it changed

Entry prices here moved as recently as this month and as far back as 2020, and the English pages that quote them often did not move with them. This page keeps both numbers side by side: what a place charges now, what it charged before, and the day it changed.

13 dated changes, every one of them a rise. Entry charges are recorded for 15 of the 51 published scenes; a scene missing below has not been recorded yet, which is not the same as being free. Two places charge by where you live, and both are in the table. Every figure comes from a scene page on this site, where it was checked against the operator’s own notice, fare table or ordinance.

What changed

SceneWhatWasNowDate changed
No.42 Dōgo Onsen
Three-hall ticket

Following a change to the city ordinance. Valid the day you buy it and the next.

 ¥1,400 ¥1,440 1 September 2026
No.48 Sakurajima
Kagoshima tram, flat fare

The first rise in twelve years. The CUTE day pass went from ¥1,200 to ¥1,400 on the same day. The ferry to the island is unchanged at ¥250.

 ¥170 ¥200 1 August 2026
No.52 Gunkanjima
City landing fee

Charged on top of the boat fare.

Older pages still quote ¥300 or ¥310.		 ¥310 ¥650 1 April 2026
No.47 Osorezan
Admission

Late April. It was ¥500 before 2025, so there are three prices in circulation.

English guides still print ¥500 or ¥700.		 ¥700 ¥900 April 2026
No.36 Yakushima
Forest entry, Shiratani Unsuikyo and Yakusugi Land
Most English guides still print ¥500.		 ¥500 ¥800 April 2026
No.45 Naruto Whirlpools
Combined boat and walkway ticket

Three smaller sets are still sold at the walkway counter.

Anything quoting the combined ticket is out of date.		 sold withdrawn 31 March 2026
No.49 Matsushima
Senseki Line, Sendai to Matsushima-Kaigan		 ¥420 ¥440 14 March 2026
No.21 Himeji Castle residents pay less
Adult admission

Residents of Himeji still pay ¥1,000, and under-eighteens are free. The city says the money goes to the seismic work.

 ¥1,000 ¥2,500 1 March 2026
No.48 Sakurajima
Magma Onsen, day visitors
Most pages have not noticed.		 ¥390 ¥460 1 October 2025
No.43 Gero Onsen
Bath pass, three baths
Most English pages still carry ¥1,500.		 ¥1,500 ¥2,500 1 October 2025
No.50 Matsumoto Castle
Adult admission

¥1,200 as a timed e-ticket, ¥1,300 on paper at the gate. Primary and junior-high pupils pay ¥400.

 ¥700 ¥1,200 March 2025
No.46 Naoshima
Art venue tickets moved online

Chichu Art Museum requires a timed booking — when the slots sell out there is no door sale. Minamidera has needed a booking since the same date.

 door price online, ¥100–300 less 1 October 2024
No.44 Mitokusan
Entrance plus the climbing desk

¥400 at the entrance with the treasure hall, then ¥800 at the climbing desk. Cash.

English pages still quote figures from before the rise.		 ¥600 ¥1,200 June 2020

Where you pay by where you live

Two of the 51 published scenes charge visitors and residents differently, and they do it in opposite ways. Himeji Castle raised the adult ticket for non-residents from ¥1,000 to ¥2,500 on 1 March 2026 and kept it at ¥1,000 for people who live in Himeji. Miyajima adds a ¥100 visitor tax to the boat fare, which residents of the island, and anyone commuting or studying there for 48 hours a month or more, do not pay.

Rail passes sold only to overseas visitors are a different arrangement and are not counted here: they are a product you can only buy from abroad, not two prices for the same ticket.

What it costs to get in

Transport, beds and food are on What does Japan outside Tokyo cost?. What a bus or a bathhouse will take from you is on Where you still cannot pay by card.

How this page is kept

The rules we hold ourselves to

  • Both numbers, and the date. A new price on its own does not tell you whether the figure in your guidebook is out of date. The old one does.
  • From the operator. Every row traces to a scene page where the figure was checked against the place’s own notice, fare table or ordinance — not against another guide.
  • We do not say who is wrong. Where we note that English pages still carry the old figure, it is a fact about the figure, not a complaint about a publisher.
  • Missing is not free. A scene we have not recorded does not appear here at all.
  • Found one we have wrong? Tell us and we change the page, leaving the old figure in place so you can see what moved.

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