13,291 is the total number of seats if all seats are used. For concerts a large chunk of seats are not used because of the space the stage takes up. I'd wager maybe 9,000 seats at ayus yoyogi shows? Somewhere around there.

There is no comparison with Tokyo dome. It's definitely more than 55,000. Sporting events just use the stands, but concerts at the Tokyo dome take up the entire arena floor. But one side of the stands doesn't get used because of the stage so perhaps it evens out.

^

you forgot to add the arena floor to Yoyogi '--'

12,000 (12,400?) is the number they usually use for Yoyogi's audience total for Ayu shows on news programs.

^

that would be a good estimated number

I was counting the arena floor. :) a large chunk of seats are taken up by the stage and stand seats on the far side are not used

I would recommend that you go for the 29th or 31st dates though. From past experience, she tends to cut down 1-3 songs on the 2nd last date to prepare for the actual CDL.

Does anybody knows whether the TA tickets comes with the member's name printed on it? And are the dates for payment and ticket collection on a different day? If so, when is the dates for the ticket collection?
Thanks!
Thinking of going for my 1st ever CDL!

i would love to, but I got to go back to Nagoya on the 31st so I could welcome the new year with my family.And my dad wi definitely kill me if i'll miss it LOL. anyway is it true that she cuts a couple of songs on the 2nd day? Well, i don't really mind it. I just want to rock my work for a couple of minutes for Surreal~evolution~Surreal if there would be.

@kinix
Yes there is member name printed on TA ticket, but noone at the entrance asked me for my TA card or ID card @ HLS Tour

Yes, they have your TA name printed on it.



As for payment and ticket collection, my friend was in Japan at the time, and I think you pay for it by a certain date, then you go in on a different day and pick up the tickets from one of those payment booths in 7eleven, but I'm not 100% sure.

Thanks for the info Earth_maiden & ~angel*ayumi~ =)
Hoping to roll for the tickets and travel to Japan on the 30th >.<
Have to find middleman to help me with the payment and collection but some part of me will be wondering if I'll get a good seating and wouldn't want any trust issue with the middleman ^^ name printed is just fine

Can't wait for the ignored songs on A BEST LIVE to pop up in this setlist :lech I can almost smell it being titled COUNTDOWN LIVE 2013-2014 ~A REST LIVE~ or even ~A REST OF A BEST~

@kinix: if you purchase on YAJ by Noppin, they won't ship your ticket to your home country, but they will ship it to your hotel in Japan. That's what happened when I bought my Maaya Sakamoto on YAJ. There was no problem with that, when I arrived in Ikebu the staff has my parcel/ticket waiting for me. :yes

@Gustavopc I wouldn't hold your breathe, Ayu is pretty unpredictable when she wants to be. :)

Yup ship to your hotel should be no problem^^
I got my HLS TA tickets via Celga. They did everything for me, I just gave them them the site and my TA data (as my membership runs through them anyways) The tickets arrived at Celga ap. 2 weeks before the concert if I remember right, so they send it to my hotel along with other stuff I had lying arround in their warehouse and everything was fine^^
But I think next time I will take another way to get ticktes, as I have a good friend now who has many friends in japan^^

Pre-sale ticket balloting starts today (11/9).

http://www.avexnet.or.jp/ayu/jp/live/cdl2013-2014.html

Anyone trying their luck?

I am

^ Me too.

Yep, the last couple of years the 2nd day has been shorter.

@kinix - The tickets get mailed to your address (in Japan) about a week before the concert.

She does usually take a few songs out which is weird. I guess it's because they're working on timing things for the final show.

OMG I just won 2 tickets with Team Ayu account for the December 30th date!!

The only problem is with my boyfriend we are only going to be in Japan starting from December 22nd. I need to find a way to pay at a local 7/11 counter before Nov 14th...

Can anyone here help? I will manage to transfer the money from France...

I am going for both TA and A-Tickets' lottery...

Have people done so before? When they announce the results, you can pay whichever ticket/date you prefer, right?

Good luck to you guys! The ones who I like anyway...lol. This is still so far away! I'm going to be anticipating the set list for weeks!

Hi guys! As I am a TA member, I applied for tickets to CDL. And I won pair tickets for 29th and 30th shows. Unfortunately I am not in Japan right now, so if you are in Japan and want to go to show, I can give you a code.

One ticket for 30th is already ordered by one guy, so if you want to buy the second ticket for 30th, please write me ASAP! Tickets for 29th are still available.

^Just sent you a PM for the 12/29 ticket. Thanks!

Wish I was going next year. But I'll be there for CDL14-15!!! :luv2

I have applied for ballot through 7-11 ticket pia and A-ticket. Hoping to be able to receive good news on the 22nd nov when the result is out. :D

I might be able to help you with the payment at 7/11. Do drop me a PM.

I gt a pair of 31st tickets from lottery ^^! So looking forward to it! who else attending on this date :D

I'm sure many people have asked this question so I'm sorry if I'm being redundant, but if I am not a member of Team Ayu, how can I purchase the tickets? I currently live in Japan so that is not an obstacle for me.

The general lottery just started a few days ago. Avex has its on ticket site - a-ticket live. Register there and you can enter the lottery.

just wondering, how do u purchase more than two tickets ?

Is the term LOTTERY here same as "ON SALE"? I'm really confused with this.

No. Lottery is like having a chance to win the ticket. However, in this case, when you win, you'll have to pay for it. You just win a chance to buy the tickets ^^

Probably try multiple places?

This year pia and A-ticket seem to start pretty early??

yeah i just asked celga to applied for 4 tickets to these two websites, im asking for the 31st of December, im nervous.. hopefully i'll win the tickets

a-ticket live? Is this the website's name? I can't seem to find it. :(

https://a-ticket.jp

use that

Yea 31st is the most popular.

By the way you and 3 other friends are going?? That's really cool. I hope to find a friend to go with me but so far no one's interested.

I'm in the same situation, haha. Going it alone. :dead2

@Kirshwasser Thank you! :)

R u going on the 31st ? Lets go together :), provided i win the tickets haha

I don't know if I've always had good luck or if its just not that difficult to get tickets these days, but the last few years I've always gotten tickets through the lottery with no problem. I don't go on the 31st though, so that helps. :)

Last year I went to the 29th with one of my close friends, then I went to the 31st alone. And I have to say, even though I had an amazing time at both concerts, it was a little bit more fun on the 29th being with someone else. On the 31st I sat next to this single Japanese man who was about 40, and he wouldn't stop screaming AYU!!! at every chance he got. I wanted to yell at him but I didn't want to be rude... :headache

Here's a good question, how does one get home (or back to their place of stay) from the concert? Especially on New Year's? Won't the cabs be swamped?

^The trains run late on the 31st, because hundreds of thousands of Japanese are going to shrines to say their new year's prayers (called Hatsumode). I left the arena at 1am, was stuck in the crowds for at least 90 minutes, possibly 120 minutes, then caught the Yamanote line back to Ikebukuro. I didn't get to my hotel until nearly 4am. I've tried to block that part of the night out because it was pretty awful.

So my advice is, if you go to the 31st show, leave when the final song starts, or even before, so you're not stuck in sardine like conditions for 2 hours. Seriously, you'll be so squished against random people, its uncomfortable and embarrassing. :dead2

I've been to 3 CDLs on the 31st and it took me an hour to get home to the hotel from there, and I lived near Akihabara! The crowds are big for sure but you are always moving....

^There was about 20 mins where I didn't move at all, and was squished against two random males. They only had the single front gate open, and it honestly took me about two hours to get out of Harajuku. About 90 mins inside the arena gates, then another half an hour lining up to get on the train to get to Ikebu. That was my crappy experience. :shrug

Wish I could go!!!
Loved the concert I went to during the summer!

I want to go! I have too much going on next month to plan any sort of trip. Maybe next year's CDL... who wants to go with me!

Oh man. Would it be better to go on the 29th or 30th then? Do the trains run late on those days?

^They don't, but the concert finishes around 10 or 10:30pm, and the trains usually stop around 1am I think, so you'd have plenty of time. :yes On the 29th of CDL12-13 she sang Ivy, so if you go on the 29th you might get to hear something different to the final set list.

The 29th always seems to have one or two extra songs that get scrapped.

off topic, but another South Carolinian Ayu fan!
i never thought i'd see the day.

Thanks! :D Is it the same scenario during arena tours too? I'm recently thinking of joining TA for the sake of securing tickets with no hassle but now i'm worried. I've always been asking my friend to get tickets for me but next time i wanna do it myself. :(

Does it mean that joininh TA won't give u 100% possibility of securing tickets?

I remember that I went to karaoke after CDL's NY show. and stayed there until 6 am. at 6 am trains were absolutely free, so I didn't have any troubles. the thing is that my friends went to karaoke at 11 pm while I was at the concert so I just joined them.

Nope it doesn´t secure you tickets. It´s a lottery-system.

Agree. But so far i got all the tickets i balloted for :D *grins

Yep, that's one reason why I always go on the 29th or 30th. The 31st is too crazy. Even on a normal night, getting out of Yoyogi is a pain and can take a while. Where its situated is not ideal for crowds. And then considering one of the most famous temples in Japan is right across the street? Forget about it on New Years.

Here's a tip btw, if you walk the opposite direction, you will hit Shibuya station in about 10 minutes. ;) That station is crowded too, but not as bad as Harajuku after a concert.

Has anybody posted a guide to entering the lottery...? I don't want to press the wrong buttons. :dead2 Sorry I'm kind of an idiot...

I think, u have to choose which concert is your first priority, second and third. Then u choose for how many ticket (2 maximum). Then it will take you to billing page, and u must have japan credit card in order to proceed

Really? Like everytime? :D it made me feel better. Haha I was convinced that being a TA member makes everything easier when it comes in getting tickets. By how much percentage can the possibility of winning in the lottery be?

When I balloted last year I went for two tickets on every date and I only got one set of tickets, which were on the 29th. It's really just down to luck.

what do you guys think ayu will perform?
main tracks from LOVE again or other songs from that poll we voted?

^ I don't know what to expect.
Three days like last year..
Uhm.. Maybe instead of singing a different song during encore this time she'll change parts of the setlist during the three shows? :mischief
Who knows.. It'd be cool, but.. knowing that, if that happens, we will never have the chance to see all the different performances, I feel bad. :tipsy

i think she'll only change the encore section...
i guess we'll have the singles from LOVE again (hopefully SAKURA and Ivy) and some tracks from that poll.

Aren't the CDLs known for their setlists being out of the ordinary? So I think we'll be surprised.

Yes, I love deeply her CDL tracklists! (I'm still not over the beautiful Disco-munication part from last year, genius) So, one thing I can say is that some songs won't disappear (SEASON, MY ALL, evolution/SURREAL, etc.), but she'll surprise with other stuff for sure!

I really hope ~Merry-go-round~ is the subtitle, haha.

^ With a merry-go-round on the stage! OMFG YES!!
:thud:thud:thud:thud

Ballot results out! I got the 12/29 and 12/30 ticket.

Omg.. I failed to get the 2nd rd tickets for 31st show.. Anyone gt extra/not getting the tickets?

Have a feeling merry go rd will be the theme for this cdl ^^

No problem getting two tickets for the 29th :)

I have 1 extra ticket for 29th. Anyone interested? Or else it will be forfeited.

CELGA hasnt replied whether or not i win the tickets for 31st show :(
so frustrating..

Feel the love fits a subtitle even more, especially when it comes to ayu :P

Rather than SAKURA and Ivy, and songs that she's done during A BEST LIVE or CDL 2012-2013, I'd rather more obscure songs, or songs that she hasn't performed in a while. HELLO, HANABI ~episode II~ during a CDL would be epic.

Fail to get the round 2 lottery =.= guess it helps me to save $ XD

Well, Merry-go-round could make for a very neat logo, haha.

^That's a nice, positive way of looking at a possibly negative outcome. :D

Still praying for something similar to PCDL since its her anniversary. But I'm pretty certain PCDL started an hour earlier than the other CDLs. >_<

^That would be awesome! I think you're right though. I'm sure it'll be spectacular.

Once you get the code, then what do you do? Do you need a certain printout for 7/11 or do you only need the code to pay? I'm confused. :dead2

^ You go to 7/11 and enter the code into their ticket machine. It will print out a receipt and you take the receipt to the register to pay. You will get confirmation of your payment and the tickets will be mailed to you in a few weeks.

Ah, thank you so much! How do they get my address, though? I am using a code given to me by another person who won them in the lottery.

Any idea when the tickets will be made available to the general public? No announcement yet right :/

^Didn't you get your ticket already via TA?

By the way, I seem to remember there is a JCB lottery announcement but it disappears or what??

Just curious~~

I got a pair from TA for myself already *phew* now looking for another pair for my friends who are going japan with me :D

I saw the JCB lottery too! But my middleman does not have that card ;(

Huh? It's already over.

ahhh, then you've got a problem I guess. Though I assume the other person is willing to send them to you?

Do you have the link?

It seems to disappear from the official website~

finally !!! wonder what the tracklist will be

bugger !!!! didnt win any ticket for the 31st show.

Anyone planning to find someone to attend the concert? I need one ticket for her cdl concert. Definitely need to see her live this year hahah!

Here's the link http://avex.jp/ayu/live/tour.php?id=1000064
Do you have friends who can help with the balloting? :x


Just get to know from a Japanese fan that generic tickets will be out on 14 Dec, so guess theres still chance? :D

Generic tickets are probably even harder to get.

Balloting via Eplus is still available. For 12/29 and 12/30 only.
http://eplus.jp/sys/T1U89P0101P00600...3P0030232P0006

Ok who is going to the 30th show ? I bought my ticket already for the 30th

Me! My friend helped me get tickets. I'm
going with my three other friends! :D

Me too :) :luv2

You went to ABL too :cry

So lucky, remember to have a really great time lol!

i'll surely will. Will buy two uchiwas so if I break one i still got one as a remembrance! LOL I'm looking forward in meeting some AHS members too by then.

Cool, i'll see you there, im going with 3 other friends too, this will be mean !!

So.. does this mean there's no subtitle this year?

http://avex.jp/ayu/live/tour.php?id=1000064
http://avex.jp/ayu/news/detail.php?id=1005639

:shakehead

i checked it out this morning and ocurred me the same thought...