[Official Message] ayumi hamasaki ARENA TOUR 2012 A ~HOTEL Love songs~ [Happening Here announcement]

[ExodusUK]

She's going to do a mini-stadium tour also in the summer too but it's still a secret. To mark ten years since Arena/Stadium tour 2002.

[AyuGAME]

^seriously? you kidding, right?
but as long as, she held concert while i'm in japan (12-19 July 2012) I will support and pray for it...

[femtrooper]

Originally Posted by AyuGAME

The reseller shops just sell Tokyo concert tickets or all over Japan tickets?

They sell for that city as far as I know...but I'm not 100% sure.

Also, she has to do Yoyogi!

[TeamAyu2004]

Originally Posted by ExodusUK

She's going to do a mini-stadium tour also in the summer too but it's still a secret. To mark ten years since Arena/Stadium tour 2002.

that would be too cool!

As for the resellers... They only sell for that city! So you in TOkyo... it would be for Tokyo, but if you are in Nagayo, only in Nagayo.. no?

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by njanjayrp

When do the tickets go on sale? Dayumn I thought she'd announce Tokyo/Yoyogi dates right away so I could plan ahead. Now Shizuoka is my only option.

Shizuoka is still pretty far though. I think you would probably have to plan on staying the night. If she really isn't going to do any Tokyo dates in the summer, it might be better to move your trip to April or May or delay your trip until the fall where I am sure she will have some kind of special live at Yoyogi.

From those dates, I think I will go to the Yokohama one.

Originally Posted by MissElin_

^I tried to get tickets at the combini machine once. I stod next to the machine 5 minutes before the tickets would start to go on sale. But I was too slow with finding the concert and the tickets was sold out in litteraly 2 minutes. So I got none, even though I was there in good time.



No it's the same for all tickets. At least for those times I won the TA lottely.

It's weird because I've had times when they did indeed print the tickets right there at the shop and times when I've had to wait for them to come in the mail. If I remember correctly, the tickets I got from TA came in the mail (even though I had to use the convenience store machine to confirm and pay for them) but the times I have gotten the tickets through the general lottery I believe have always been printed right at the store.

Like Chocopockymonster, I also got A-Block tickets for RnRC through a convenience store as well surprisingly. And in my case it was several hours after they had went on sale. So, that kinda made me question whether its even worth it to be in the fanclub.

Originally Posted by njanjayrp

Thanks Misa-chan! Hopefully they'll start selling them in the next 10 days, cuz despite of what many are saying I don't feel comfortable organizing a trip to see an Ayu concert without a ticket (yes I'd like to see Japan as well, but still...).

Really, for people not living in Japan, buying from a resale shop is actually the best, easiest and most guaranteed option. Even price wise, her tickets are not that bad anymore on the resale market. For this years CDL (which are usually much more expensive tickets to get than the Arena tours) I used a resale shop and paid only the original price of the ticket. I've never seen a ticket shop NOT have a ton of Ayu tickets when she has a tour going on, so really, the amount of risk is miniscule if any.

Originally Posted by TeamAyu2004

that would be too cool!

As for the resellers... They only sell for that city! So you in TOkyo... it would be for Tokyo, but if you are in Nagayo, only in Nagayo.. no?

No, not really. Of course the majority of tickets at the Tokyo shops are for Tokyo area venues, but I've seen tickets for all over Japan as well.

[YUKARI]

whyyyy can't I participate in TA lottery?!!! why oh why

I joined on Nov 23 and they accept only members who joined till Nov 18

I have no idea how to get tickets now

[SunshineSlayer]

^ Even if you had gotten into the TA lottery, tickets aren't guaranteed and you would have a heck of a time getting them if you don't live in Japan. (TA tickets are mailed and you have to pay for them at a Japanese convenience store within a certain time frame) Once again, just buy from the resale shops.

[~angel*ayumi~]

Sooo..... just wrote Celga a mail to enter for me in the TA Lottery^^
When TA sends the tickets via mail, when do they usally send them out? Is there enough time for me to get them send to me by Celga? (if I win them of course *prays*)

[SunshineSlayer]

^ As mentioned, its not just that the tickets are mailed - you first need to have someone in Japan go to a Japanese convenience store and pay for the tickets for you; only then will the tickets actually get sent. They are usually sent out about a week before the show. I'm not sure how fast Celga is, but I would imagine it would be kind of risky.

[Mai82Go]

@YUKARI
No, the date is the 18th of January 2012. If you paid your membership by that date you can enter the lottery. So don't worry.

Ok the dates are now as follows.
Lottery TA: 01/25 - 02/05 (23:59hrs)
Results TA & Payment Period: 02/10 - 02/15 (only 5 days - I guess Conbini is the way to go)

@angelayu
I agree with SunshineSlayer. That seems to risky. Do you want them to sent the tickets to Germany? Even with Express Mail I would think about this twice.

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by Tony G

Where's the Yoyogi dates?! So odd, she always does her final summer shows there. She will add September/October dates but even then, most years have finished the first leg in Tokyo. She's doing Osaka twice but Tokyo only once in this leg. Does not make sense. Even in the 2nd leg she usually does Osaka again.

Might have to go to the Osaka shows instead since I wanted to visit in July. Anyone had experience going to see Ayu in Osaka?

edit - there's a gap in the calendars for 14/15 July and a weekend in August. Might do Yoyogi then but still odd it has not been included in this announcement.

She'll likely have Yoyogi in the next batch of tour dates. I think she did this once before (no Yoyogi in the initial announcement) but eventually we had like three Yoyogi shows by the end of the tour.

The amount of shows so far is about the same as usual. Her tours have been rather long lately... especially after AT07's very few 16 dates.

AT08 - 33
AT09 - 37
AT10 - 41
PoM - 28 (shorter due to starting about two months later than usual)

I wonder how long this tour will end up being.

[AyUmIXx]

Originally Posted by ExodusUK

She's going to do a mini-stadium tour also in the summer too but it's still a secret. To mark ten years since Arena/Stadium tour 2002.

what?
seriously???

[~angel*ayumi~]

mhhh... one week is really a bit short o.o Aren´t there always lots of tickets on sale on yahoo weeks before the concert? (also some that states that it are TA tickets)
Inh teh case they really mail them out that short I think I will try to let them send to my hotel were I stay in Japan ^^

[ayuuk]

Are there reasonable reseller shops in Osaka or in Fukuoka??

I am in TA, but yeah it's very hard to find a person in Japan to get the tickets from 7-11 for me... >.<

[Evolution7/4]

So its safe to say resale shops in Tokyo (Harajuku, specifically) will have tickets for the Saitama and Yokohama shows?

[MissElin_]

Yes! If you are unsure you can visit their websites before you go to Japan and see how many tickets that are left. They have actualy never failed me (except for once, but that was for a Namie Amuro concert).

Harajuku's Gurakudoh
Ueno, Shinjuku and Shibuya's Yokohama ticket

[Evolution7/4]

Thanks! I'm living in Bunkyo and going to school in Chiyoda so I may hit up the Shinjuku one but I may just go to Harajuku because I definetly know how tho get there and it seems like they have the most tickets.

[Mai82Go]

@ayukuu
I think there are some reseller shops in Osaka at least - I don't see why there shouldn't be any in Fukuoka. I'm planning to go there for my ticket (Osaka) or send a friend to the Conbini, when they go on sale - not quite sure yet.

@angelayumi
Like so many people already said - it just seems the easiest way is resellers. If you do it like this (ta-lottery-conbini-mail) I guess they sent the tickets to the address you have at TA. So if you have an TA address from a 3rd party like Celga or Tenso then you either need to change the TA address to the hotel you're staying at or have Celga/Tenso/whoever sent it to the hotel, which would mean two times of sending them. But just 1 week with so many possibilities of things going wrong? I wouldn't risk it. Especially when you don't even get better tickets from TA. But you must decide that for yourself in the end.

[~angel*ayumi~]

my problem with reseller shops is that the only concert I could go is Fukuoka, but i am staying in a hotel in Kyoto. So what do i do if I drive the 3,5h with train to Fukuoka and the reseller shop there has no tickets left?

[Evolution7/4]

^Scalpers outside the arena maybe?