Visiting Pearl Harbor Memorial

If you have not been able to secure your movie/boat tickets for the USS Arizona Memorial, please be informed that the National Park Service gives out over 1, 300 free walk up tickets each day on a first come, first serviced basis. Be sure to arrive early for these walk up tickets, the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center opens at 7am.

We recommend that you allow yourself at least 3 hours to immerse in our Pearl Harbor Visitor Center experience. Upon arrival to the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center, please proceed directly to the National Park Service's ticket counter, conveniently located in the courtyard area. Here you will receive your movie and boat shuttle tickets to the USS Arizona Memorial. The USS Arizona Memorial Narrated Tour Desk and the Pearl Harbor Historical Site Partners ticket counter are also located in the courtyard of the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center.

Free daily tours to the USS Arizona Memorial are available from 7:30 am to 3 pm and include a compelling 23 minute documentary film on the history of the politics, the people and the attack on Oahu. After viewing the film, visitors are then boarded on a 150 passenger US Navy operated boat and experience an unforgettable ride to the USS Arizona Memorial. The movie and boat tour to the USS Arizona Memorial takes approximately 75 minutes.

The USS Arizona Memorial is built over the remains of the sunken battleship USS Arizona, the final resting place for many of the 1, 177 crewmen killed on December 7, 1941 when their ship was bombed by the Japanese Naval Forces. This loss of life represents over half of the Americans killed during the worst naval disaster in American History.