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This thread is so full of lottery! Before this I have no idea it is this hard to get a ticket to a competition /ice show in Japan.
It is really really hard, I failed all again
This thread is so full of lottery! Before this I have no idea it is this hard to get a ticket to a competition /ice show in Japan.
Am I the only one who can't go to the Step 2 page?
Clicking Buy ticket HERE button does not go to anywhere!
Managed to purchase tickets for Friday and Sunday via the English site, but yes, Saturday tickets are completely sold out. I don't think I've refreshed a page so many times to check if tickets were still available. :disapp: Didn't get the seats we originally wanted but at the this rate I'm glad I was even able to score tickets.
By the way, has anyone ever been to Namihaya? I wonder if binoculars will be needed for Stand S and Stand A?
There are two rounds of ticket drawing before today's sale and maybe they got the tickets by drawing. I bought 3 days ticket s this morning and luckily to get all arena ss tickets. Thanks NHK for providing the oversea tickets purchase website for the fans not in JP. It is super crazy how the tickets sold in JP, it sold out in 5 mins......
You are the luckiest person I've ever heard!There are two rounds of ticket drawing before today's sale and maybe they got the tickets by drawing. I bought 3 days ticket s this morning and luckily to get all arena ss tickets. Thanks NHK for providing the oversea tickets purchase website for the fans not in JP. It is super crazy how the tickets sold in JP, it sold out in 5 mins......
I think all ISU events provide oversea tickets, but still events in Japan are the most difficult to get. My friends and I tried both Japanese websites and oversea site, but we couldn't get any Saturday ticket, not a single one! And the sold out was not 5 minutes, it was 1 minute! I finally managed to open Ticket PIA site at 12:01, and all tickets were already gone.
Like many of you I had had a terrible time, but was lucky enough to be able to buy a ticket
for NHK Trophy on the event day after standing in line patiently for some two hours last year.
There were tickets for SS Stand and C then, IIRC.
And I regretted that I was a bit late to get SS.
Maybe they will let you know about pooled tickets, if they have any,
on the day before the each day on the website.
I had the most awful experience at a Seven Ticket machine earlier today while trying to secure tickets--I was there before 12noon, and the staff probably thought I was 'too excited' haha. And when 12noon struck I panicked and on the 1st minute actually got through the hellish busy system (everyone was clamouring for tickets I reckon) but I was very stupid to click 中止 which effectively stopped my 2 of the sessions I managed to connect to. It's a learning experience though so hopefully next year I'd either a) go online on a VPN and buy internationally (I'm not Japanese! THEY SHOULD PROVIDE A NON-JP WEBSITE FOR NON-JP FANS IN JAPAN (wishful thinking)). Or hope that by then my Japanese skills are better and I'd be able to understand their procedures on those JP ticketing website much more clearly (it takes time for me since I try to read them).
Sorry to hear about your troubles and I can completely empathize with you. The machines are hard, confusing even for Japanese native speakers (largely due to poor design). I had friends on machines at Lawsons and 7/11 and both were unable to get through before tickets were sold out.
Like many of you I had had a terrible time, but was lucky enough to be able to buy a ticket
for NHK Trophy on the event day after standing in line patiently for some two hours last year.
There were tickets for SS Stand and C then, IIRC.
And I regretted that I was a bit late to get SS.
Maybe they will let you know about pooled tickets, if they have any,
on the day before the each day on the website.