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Hello. If you have not seen my first video about buying tickets this is covered there as well, but I will answer here also. If a show does not sell out, then you can buy it either at the door of the venue, or at a convenience store. However which one you buy the ticket at will depend on the live. The best way to know is to check the tweet/event page for which way you could/would need to do so. Any concert that has tickets sold through tiget or livepocket, and there are one or two smaller ones i dont remember off hand, you dont have to buy these online, but most of the time can just show up on the same day. Though if you buy it in advance through those, you do get a slight discount. If the tickets for that day are being sold through e+ or ticketpia, you can USUALLY buy tickets in advance at a convenience store. In my original/first video on this, I have a guide on how to use the machine in family mart. Although, e+ now does "smartphone ticket 'only'" for some shows where the only way to get a ticket ahead of time is online. Though you can still try your luck or research a bit beforehand to see if you could still get a ticket at the door. I had the "e-ticket only" experience with a group I like back in October 2023. However the venue they were playing was quite large for them and the 1 other group also on the bill. So i figured there was a high chance I could get a ticket at the door. The way this one worked, was everybody who bought online was let in to the venue first, then a guy came up with a stack of paper tickets (but its supposed to be "e-ticket only") and they let people in who did not/were not able to buy online.

@@poleosis thank you. I'll go back and watch that one

@@audreyq192 to clarify one thing: the family mart guide is a link in the comments of the older video.

If it runs similar to other lotteries I know my friends have done, as long as he applied for 2, I dont think there should be a problem. In my experience, if it is just a FC lottery, with no special VIP gifts attached, there usually is not a name requirement. If they do ask for a name, then I don't believe there should be an issue for him to attach your name to the second ticket.

@@poleosis Thank you so much!!

I looked at the info for that live. I see that its ticketpia or i-tike. If you used ticketpia did you do the phone verification for a new account? I'm not sure off hand if I-tike has something similar as its been too long since i've had experience with them. For a kanji name, in my experiences ive not seen them ask for a kanji name, but a hirgana/katakana name. For that, you just have to install a JP keyboard on your phone/pc, and then find a katakana name you like. if your name is actually the same as your youtube name, then you would use マーティン フアン. For payment, it looked like on the ticketpia site that they take foreign credit cards, and my friends have also been able to get tickets from them with non-JP cards. I would say check with your card/bank to make sure they are not blocking the transaction.

Thank you for the update! I'm trying to see Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and I believe they use the e website. I've only been to one concert in Japan but they sold "overseas" tickets

>does it mean that who receives a ticket is randomly selected and you might not get one ? yes, that is exactly how it works. If a show has lotteries, they usually do multiple rounds of them. There is also usually a general sale that is open to everyone after all the lottery rounds are done. The only way you will really experience lotteries is if you want to see a highly popular group, or a mid size group that only does a handful of lives a year(think babymetal)

Which part are you referring to? I need to make an update as things have changed since that event in 2020-2022. For example, probably the biggest change is that the majority of lives now are reserved/paid through two somewhat smaller ticketing sites now. It's more rare to see the google form reservation, or twitter reply reservation now.

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the size of most of the concerts referred to in the video, theres not really a limitation on bag size that you can bring in, unless it is something that is expected to sell out, which they will usually announce beforehand and suggest that if you absolutely need to bring a bag, to use coinlockers inside/outside/near the venue. recording concerts is up to individual groups. any show that has more than one group, some might allow photos only, some might allow video only, while some ban both altogether.

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for this one, literally right against it. no different than many venues of a similar size or smaller in Japan.

I personally have only bought re-seller tickets once, and it was for babymetal at tokyo dome in 2016. I used viagogo, and I believe I had paid something like double the original asking price. Regarding the ID checks on tickets, from my limited experience, ID checks are only done on things like VIP tickets that usually come with some kind of special bonus like signed merch or other VIP only gifts. My experience here is limited to a group called Sakura Gakuin. They offered both VIP tickets and general tickets. the VIP tickets required ID check, but also came with very limited merch. The general tickets had no such ID check and were only entry into that show. I assume any ticket you see that explicity states "no name" is a general sale ticket.

USUALLY it is for larger events with a capacity of 500 or greater. However, sometimes it is done for smaller events too. I just got back from a trip, and there was one group in particular who was playing small shows but they were still doing entry by ticket/reservation number. When it comes to people organizing themselves, the first few might line themselves up, but what i've seen most of the time is everyone just hangs back a few feet away from the entrance in a group until their number/number group is called. Though if you plan to go to a show and arrive in the middle of the second or third act on a multi group show, the number won't matter.