Thanks for the ticket help everyone. For someone new to overseas stuff any info is appreciated. If I can figure everything out I may show up for both Budokan shows.

Even when it’s off topic someone asked me in this thread if my Mania Card had arrived. My card was delivered today to Japan. The problem was my name did not match to the address so the first attempt failed. After a call from Mania support to my “rent address” I prompted to write them a mail with the name which matches the address and me as a kind of lodger. After that no further problems anymore besides I can’t go to the Mania concert because of my work -.-.


So how do I build a bridge to PERFECT WORLD now? Ah I know, in October they will send the tickets to the members (I think with the start of the general sale) and then we know the seat positions. I am looking forward to meet people from SH again and see Budokan finally from the inside after the last attempt failed too.

Tombery wrote:...in October they will send the tickets to the members (I think with the start of the general sale) and then we know the seat positions.

Which means it's no point to check out the auctions now, isn't it? As no one who has bought them have the tix physically with them.

That will save me lots of time which will be wasted from checking Y!AJ every day ^^Thanks!

Yes that right before October 17 it makes almost no sense to check out the ticket sites and yahoo auctions every day. I will look for tickets just with the start of the general sale.

n00b question: the homepage (HP) ticket sales for the arena tour is a lottery is it?

https://va.pia.jp/index.jsp?slcd=V7647&n=1218152207

kudo_maharizu wrote:n00b question: the homepage (HP) ticket sales for the arena tour is a lottery is it?

https://va.pia.jp/index.jsp?slcd=V7647&n=1218152207

Yes, it's a lottery because it's also a pre-sale.

We will be in Japan arriving on the 22nd and could make this concert as long as we can get a train back to Tokyo.

Date: 2015/12/23
Region: Aichi
Venue: Nippongaishi Hall


I see it starts at 18:00 - It would be around 2 hours in length?  I only have the festival concert to go by for length - since Chicago was shorter.  So I would expect we could catch a 21:00 train back to Tokyo.


The station is 3 mins away, does this sound sane to folks who have been to concerts in Japan?

Alxa wrote:We will be in Japan arriving on the 22nd and could make this concert as long as we can get a train back to Tokyo.

Date: 2015/12/23
Region: Aichi
Venue: Nippongaishi Hall


I see it starts at 18:00 - It would be around 2 hours in length?  I only have the festival concert to go by for length - since Chicago was shorter.  So I would expect we could catch a 21:00 train back to Tokyo.


The station is 3 mins away, does this sound sane to folks who have been to concerts in Japan?

One of the reasons for the earlier timing of gigs in Japan is to facilitate fans getting home. Which is great! The hall show I went to was 2 hrs 30 mins.

Nagoya's about an hour an a half on the shinkansen, and looking at Jorudan briefly there are also later trains up to 10pm-ish. But please note if you have the JR Pass you cannot use the Nozomi trains. If you're paying for the fare, between 9 to 10 PM you have a few options to choose from

kudo_maharizu wrote:

Nagoya's about an hour an a half on the shinkansen, and looking at Jorudan briefly there are also later trains up to 10pm-ish. But please note if you have the JR Pass you cannot use the Nozomi trains. If you're paying for the fare, between 9 to 10 PM you have a few options to choose from

Thanks - we will have the JR Pass - I'm aware of it's limitations.  There are 2 trains that work in the schedules I can view now (which is for dates other then the 23rd, but I don't believe the train schedule changes that much day to day).  But we would have to be on the train near the arena at 9pm.  So if the concert is 2.5 hours that would be a 30 min window to walk 3 mins, even if the train is crowded  

Next challenge - getting tickets - but we have time.

Alxa wrote:

kudo_maharizu wrote:

Nagoya's about an hour an a half on the shinkansen, and looking at Jorudan briefly there are also later trains up to 10pm-ish. But please note if you have the JR Pass you cannot use the Nozomi trains. If you're paying for the fare, between 9 to 10 PM you have a few options to choose from

Thanks - we will have the JR Pass - I'm aware of it's limitations.  There are 2 trains that work in the schedules I can view now (which is for dates other then the 23rd, but I don't believe the train schedule changes that much day to day).  But we would have to be on the train near the arena at 9pm.  So if the concert is 2.5 hours that would be a 30 min window to walk 3 mins, even if the train is crowded  

Next challenge - getting tickets - but we have time.

If you are sure to travel on that 9pm train, you can reserve your seats (at any JR station with a ticket office) way in advance for free. Crowded or not, you'll be all right.

kudo_maharizu wrote:


If you are sure to travel on that 9pm train, you can reserve your seats (at any JR station with a ticket office) way in advance for free. Crowded or not, you'll be all right.

Oh even if it's not a shinkansen?  We will have the green pass so I'm well used to reserving seats and planned to for the 9:30 shinkansen.

Way in advance will be the prior day - since that's when we'll arrive in Japan.

Alxa wrote:Oh even if it's not a shinkansen?

I think you meant if it's not a shinkansen JR station here? If you did - yes. I have booked seats on trains leaving from Tokyo JR at Shibuya JR station (which doesn't have the shinkansen) a few times.

Sorry for being a bit out of topic, admins. But I think this is useful info for SH members wanting to get to the venues for this tour. ^^

What does "Official HP Pre-sale" mean? is this lottery?

thelaughingman wrote:What does "Official HP Pre-sale" mean? is this lottery?

Yes, that's usually a lottery.

I entered in the lottery today. I hope I will win to get tickets but also not, because I prefer getting tickets from Mania on Yahoo!Auction lol An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

Hasenfu wrote:

thelaughingman wrote:What does "Official HP Pre-sale" mean? is this lottery?

Yes, that's usually a lottery.

woot! thanks! i asked rinkya today if they could help me get one. hopefully, i could get one again just like i did for the hello world tokyo day 2.

babaloued wrote:I entered in the lottery today. I hope I will win to get tickets but also not, because I prefer getting tickets from Mania on Yahoo!Auction lol An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

I tried my usual deputising company at fdjp.com and they don't do lotteries. So, Rinkya does lotteries?

kudo_maharizu wrote:I tried my usual deputising company at fdjp.com and they don't do lotteries. So, Rinkya does lotteries?

Yes, they do. They'll enter pretty much any lottery you want them to.

One of my friends has had Rinkya enter lotteries for him for years and has gotten most of our Japan live tickets that way. He also just asked them to enter the HP arena lottery for some friends.

I think the lottery entry ends today July 28th, and Rinkya has this notice "Shipping request closed". Dunno if this affects accepting requests too but they haven't replied for about 12 hours from the time I requested. 

They usually reply quickly and has good service and pretty much listen to every extra request you have.

So for you guys trying out Rinkya, if you know other companies similar, you might want to consider asking them instead if you want to enter the lottery.

thelaughingman wrote:I think the lottery entry ends today July 28th, and Rinkya has this notice "Shipping request closed". Dunno if this affects accepting requests too but they haven't replied for about 12 hours from the time I requested. 

They usually reply quickly and has good service and pretty much listen to every extra request you have.

So for you guys trying out Rinkya, if you know other companies similar, you might want to consider asking them instead if you want to enter the lottery.

I see. Oh, well.

This may be foolish - but I'll wait for Yahoo! Auctions when they have the physical tix to sell. Because from past experience, the seller usually tells you where the seats are (roughly) in the venue.

kudo_maharizu wrote:

thelaughingman wrote:I think the lottery entry ends today July 28th, and Rinkya has this notice "Shipping request closed". Dunno if this affects accepting requests too but they haven't replied for about 12 hours from the time I requested. 

They usually reply quickly and has good service and pretty much listen to every extra request you have.

So for you guys trying out Rinkya, if you know other companies similar, you might want to consider asking them instead if you want to enter the lottery.

I see. Oh, well.

This may be foolish - but I'll wait for Yahoo! Auctions when they have the physical tix to sell. Because from past experience, the seller usually tells you where the seats are (roughly) in the venue.

Lottery seats are the closest seats for non scandal mania members so if you see any lottery tix up in yahoo auctions, that's pretty much the best seats to get.

Lottery tickets are the only 100% safe one to get on auction right?

Mania are the FC tickets right - where they might check IDs?

Alxa wrote:Lottery tickets are the only 100% safe one to get on auction right?

Mania are the FC tickets right - where they might check IDs?

They do not check IDs for any of the tickets because none of them (MANIA ones included) have names on them or have anything indicating which tickets are from which lotteries. I've been to 4 shows in Japan where I've used MANIA lottery tickets and, while I am a member, they didn't check for any sort of IDs.

Any updates on tickets yet?

shirokun wrote:Any updates on tickets yet?

It's not Oct 17 yet.

From a resale perspective, I reckon when the general sale starts only then the presale/club ticket holders will get to collect them. Thus far in my (limited) experience, private resellers have tickets in hand when they put it up on an auction site. There are two tickets for the Budokan this minute, one at 12000 yen the other going for a whopping 21000 yen. And no indication where the seats will be. No, thanks. lol