#misaki01

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I get my tickets mainly through two means.

1. By having friends who live in Japan. 

I know this is not applicable to everyone but it is unfortunately the main way to get show tickets in general. Theater plays usually sell their tickets through 2 phases: the lottery phase and the general sales phase.

The general sale takes place after all the lotteries are over but once it begins it’s an open battlefield of sheer competition for internet speed and whether you can break through a crashing website. This happens to a lot of the popular shows therefore most people would take part in the lotteries to secure tickets early.

Most shows have multiple lotteries, the show’s own runners usually host 1 or 2 lotteries themselves. Fanclubs and agencies of actors in the shows will also host lotteries for fans, usually only to paid members or email subscribers. Sometimes there are “cast lotteries” via links the actors share on their own blogs or social media sites. I got my tickets through a “magazine advanced lottery” which is a link printed on the magazine where Patalliro! used to be serialized on.

To join a lottery you basically have to access a lottery site, which is a webpage hosted under a major ticketing website (e.g. pia, lawson, etc). To enter the lottery you need to be a registered member of the site and to register you need to provide Japanese phone numbers, post codes or even payment information depending on the website. That’s why you need the help of Japanese residents in this process.

You enter the lottery by applying for the date and time of the shows you wish to attend and the number of tickets you need.If you hit your choice, you must pay by a designated deadline and print the tickets at a later date (usually around the time of the general sale). All of these steps require someone who lives in Japan and has easy access to a convenient store or any other venue where tickets can be paid and printed out. The general sales require the same kind of access from a Japanese resident.

After the tickets are printed my friends either mail them to me or hand them to me in person when I visit to see the shows.

2. International sales. 

This only applies to shows with an apparent international audience.Only a small number of shows have opened ticket sales for the international audience, such as Musical Kuroshitsuji, Musical Touken Ranbu and Live Spectacle -Naruto-. Here you can just pay by an international credit card and show your card at the venue to pick up the tickets right before the shows. The international sales usually open on the same day as the general sales. There is usually much less traffic compared to the domestic general sales(except Touken Ranbu) and the seating is pretty good, but because they don’t designate a lot of seats for the international audience it is best to grab them ASAP. And if a show does not have international ticket sales then you are stuck with option 1.

If both failed, you can still get tickets through second-hand ticket exchange or try your luck at a will call ticket before the show. 

Usually there will be a lot of Japanese fans willing to exchange/sell their extra tickets from the lotteries but they give all sorts of conditions to meet their own needs so a certain level of Japanese proficiency as well as access to their postal system is often required. But I have done exchanges through face to face delivery as well so it really depends on whether you can build trust with the other person. 

The shows will give out will call tickets about an hour before each performance begins, you just need to line up and get a number and then wait if your number gets called. It’s like last resort lottery really and the seats are usually very marginal too but if the show is popular enough you can still get insane queues just for that handful of tickets so there is NEVER guarantee. Last year, Patalliro played in a 400-ish theater and the line for will call tickets was about 40 people each day so you can imagine most people who lined up will leave empty-handed.

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