Do foreigners need to buy Forbidden Palace tickets online?

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Chinese citizens are required to book in advance, but as the ticket portal linked from the Palace Museum website is only available in Chinese and requires local payment, reports at TripAdvisor, Lonely Planet, and The China Guide among others confirm that at least as of early 2018, foreigners can bring their passport and payment to the "passport window" and have the staff obtain tickets for you.

The same sources observe that you can purchase on site by scanning a QR code, though this requires a local electronic payment method like Alipay or a local bank account.

FWIW, the China Guide page offers a screen-by-screen walk-through of the website purchase process, though this too requires Alipay or a local bank account to submit payment.

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