Pneumatic tire and method for manufacturing the same

A pneumatic tire having a carcass layer extending across a pair of bead cores and an inner liner layer formed of a thermoplastic resin and provided on the tire inner surface side of the carcass layer, wherein:

• the inner liner layer and a rubber layer provided on the side facing the carcass layer, of the inner liner layer, form a composite layer in combination;
• respective end portions in the tire circumferential direction of the composite layer are jointed in the tire circumferential direction in an overlapping manner at a joint portion of the composite layer;
• the lower inner liner layer, situated on the lower side or the tire inner surface side of the overlapping end portions of the composite layer, has a “first edge” at the joint portion;
• the upper inner liner layer, situated on the upper side of the overlapping end portions of the composite layer, has a “second edge” at the joint portion;
• the first edge of the lower inner liner layer is separated from the upper inner liner layer by the rubber layer;
• provided that a position in the tire circumferential direction on the upper inner liner layer at the same height in the tire radial direction as the lower inner liner layer, at which position the upper inner liner layer is closest to the first edge of the lower inner liner layer, is “P”, a distance in the tire circumferential direction measured from the first edge to the position P is “L”, and a distance in the tire circumferential direction measured from the second edge to the position P is “T”, T≤35 mm, T−L/2≥9 mm, and 0×T<L≤0.2×T.