A pneumatic tire is provided with a pair of bead portions in each of which a bead core is buried, a pair of side wall portions each extending outward in the tire radial direction from the bead portion, and a tread portion extending between both the side wall portions, said pneumatic tire being provided with an annular decoration portion disposed in a side portion including the bead portion and the sidewall portion. The annular decoration portion includes at least two decoration elements with different average brightnesses and/or average hues in the tire circumferential direction, and the average brightnesses of the respective decoration elements are set to 20% or more.