Official Pearl Harbor Captain’s Self-Guided Audio Tour — 29 Stops

QUICK ANSWER
Official Pearl Harbor Captain’s Self-Guided Audio Tour: the complete, 29-stop version of the National Park Service multimedia tour of the Visitor Center, museums and shoreline, narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis with NPS historians and Pearl Harbor survivors.
Price: $14 adults (13+) · $9 children 4–12 · confirm current rates at booking
Duration: self-paced, from about 1 hour up to 4 hours
Island: Oahu
Best for: independent visitors, non-English speakers, anyone who wants the full story rather than the highlights
Booking: instant confirmation. Does not include USS Arizona Memorial boat tickets.

WHAT IS THE CAPTAIN’S SELF-GUIDED AUDIO TOUR?
It is the National Park Service audio tour you collect at the Narrated Tour Desk and carry around the site yourself. No coach, no group, no fixed departure. You press play and move at your own speed through the Visitor Center, the two museums and the shoreline. The Captain’s tier is the complete version: all 29 stops, audio only, no virtual reality.
What makes it worth the handset is who is talking. Jamie Lee Curtis narrates, but the substance comes from NPS historians and from Pearl Harbor survivors recorded before their accounts were lost, carried on archival audio and period imagery. Standing at the shoreline hearing a man describe the morning he lived through, at the spot where it happened, does something a placard cannot. Hawaiians called this water Puʻuloa long before December 7, 1941, and the moʻolelo of the harbor runs centuries deeper than the attack.

HOW IT RUNS
Check in with your confirmation at the USS Arizona Memorial Narrated Tour Desk, in the courtyard of the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center, far left as you enter. Check-in is open from 7am to 3:30pm, and the Visitor Center closes at 5pm. The confirmation email runs to several pages; print and bring all of them. You then move through the museums, the grounds and the shoreline at your own pace, with videos and USS Arizona Memorial library photos included on the device. The Visitor Center has a no-bag policy: bring your wallet, camera, phone and water, and use the paid bag storage outside the main gate for anything else. Parking is $7 a day.

PRICING
$14 per adult (13 and up) and $9 per child aged 4 to 12. Verified against the FareHarbor price API, September 2026. Confirm current rates at booking. Pacific Historic Parks sells the other versions of the tour separately, at adult prices of $10 for the 18-stop Chief’s, $12 for the 23-stop Commander’s, $21 for the Deluxe Combo with one virtual reality experience and $35 for the Admiral’s VIP with all five. This page books the Captain’s tier. USS Arizona Memorial boat tickets are separate, at $1 each on recreation.gov.

KNOW BEFORE YOU GO
– Boat tickets to the USS Arizona Memorial are not included, and you do not need them for this tour
– Memorial tickets are $1 each at recreation.gov; the first release is 8 weeks ahead, the second at 3pm Hawaii time the day before
– Check in between 7am and 3:30pm at the Narrated Tour Desk, with every page of your confirmation
– No-bag policy at the Visitor Center; paid bag storage outside the gate
– Parking is $7 a day
– Cancellation: full refund more than 24 hours ahead. Inside 24 hours you can reschedule but not refund

WHO IT IS FOR
Independent visitors who would rather set their own pace than follow a guide, and anyone who has already done a coach tour and wants the depth a quick stop cannot give. The tour runs in seven languages (English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, French, German and Spanish), which makes it one of the better options for visitors poorly served by English-only guided tours. Families short on time may prefer the shorter Chief’s version.

BROWSE MORE
Browse more Pearl Harbor tours or see everything we run on Oahu. Planning your visit? Read our guides to Pearl Harbor tickets and timing and visiting Pearl Harbor with kids. Also see our guide to self-guided vs guided Pearl Harbor visits.