Pneumatic tire with sidewall decorative band

A tire having an endless decorative band on a surface of at least one of paired sidewalls, the decorative band having one or more first indicative sector and one or more second indicative sector which are arranged alternately and consecutively in the circumferential direction, wherein

• the first indicative sector consists of a background portion which continuously leads to the sidewall portion adjacent to the first indicative sector with a uniform surface roughness value, and a foreground portion which is arranged in the background portion, has a maximum width in the radial direction of the tire identical with that of the background portion, and forms marks by having a surface roughness value larger than that of the background portion, and
• a background portion constituting a part or a whole of the second indicative sector continuously leads to the sidewall portion adjacent to the second indicative sector and has a surface rougher than any of the sidewall portion adjacent to the first indicative sector, the sidewall portion adjacent to the second indicative sector, and the background portion of the first indicative sector, the radially inside edge of the decorative band having a constant radial height.