Everyone photographs the towers from outside. Far fewer go in to eat. Here is the picture as the Touristic Enterprises Company, which operates the towers, and its restaurants site set it out in September 2026.
What is actually there
The large sphere holds two restaurants: Horizon, serving oriental and international food as a buffet at breakfast, lunch and dinner and also handling outside catering, and Amimoto, which is Japanese. Alongside them is Dasman Hall, a reception hall for senior state guests rather than a public restaurant.
The viewing sphere, the smaller revolving one, has a cafeteria for light bites and drinks. That is all the food served up there.
Hours
The complex opens from 8am to 11pm, and the company’s own page warns that times may vary over holidays. Amimoto runs from 1.30pm to 11pm. The viewing sphere runs from 2pm to 11pm.
Horizon’s own hours and buffet prices do not appear on its page, and what has been published elsewhere dates from 2016, so we are not printing it.
The ticket
Going up to the viewing sphere needs a ticket separate from any restaurant booking. An adult ticket is 3.000 dinars and a child aged four to nine is 1.500. That is what the company’s own ticketing platform showed on 6 September 2026. It lists no price for under-fours and does not say they are free, so it is worth asking.
Booking
Two separate channels. Sphere tickets go through the ticketing platform that the Book Now button on the towers page opens. Restaurant tables go through the booking page on the restaurants site, through an app called Kuwait Towers Restaurants on both stores, or by phone on 2496 5500.
The rotation
The viewing sphere completes one full turn every half hour. It sits more than 120 metres above sea level and carries electric telescopes. That figure is the only height the operator publishes. The often-quoted 187, 147 and 113 metres for the three towers come from the Al Jazeera encyclopedia rather than the company, and we attribute them accordingly.
A building before it was a restaurant
The design was contracted to a Swedish engineering office in 1975 and built by a Yugoslav company. The skin is 55,000 steel discs finished in Chinese enamel in eight colours. The official opening was in 1979. The middle tower is a water tank holding a million gallons, and the smallest is a generator tower that lights the other two.
One caveat
A third name, Al Waha, appears in the booking list at the towers’ own coordinates but is described nowhere on the restaurants site. We are not calling it an open restaurant before someone rings the number above.
Photograph: Kuwait Towers seen from outside. By Zairon, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Sources: the Kuwait Towers page on the Touristic Enterprises Company site; the Kuwait Towers Restaurants site; and the company’s ticketing platform, all on 6 September 2026; and the Al Jazeera encyclopedia, 28 March 2015, for the heights.
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