I'm going to Tokyo...

[becky-49.livejournal.com]

Does anyone know how to buy tickets to Ohno's butai "Amatsukaze"? I've only managed to find the Aoyama Theatre website, which lists the showtimes but it doesn't tell me how to order tickets. If I were to call Aoyama Theatre, would they have someone there who speaks English or Mandarin? 

Also, does anyone know where in Tokyo is the Johnny's store located?

Thanks.

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[eyeslikefirefly.livejournal.com]

The Johnny's shop is in Harajuku, but don't expect to just show up at any time and be able to get in. Here's the address and a map..
http://johnnys-shop.ya3genshiro.com/?p=3
(don't follow the instructions on the site, you can't just join the line, you have to get a ticket...see below)

My recommendation is to go to Harajuku on a weekday and get there really early. I think the time I FINALLY got in I showed up at about 10AM to get a ticket. You want to say, "Tiketo arimasu ka?" or if you don't know any Japanese I would just ask, "Ticketo?" and if they have any left they'll give you a blue piece of paper with the time to come back on it. Be sure you get back at least 10 minutes earlier than the time on your card. Show it to them, and they might tell you to wait a little longer (in Japanese, of course).

I have no idea about Ohno's butai though.

[winkychan]

I've posted an entry about all the wonders of how to get inside the Johnny's shop here. As xgacktx told above me, you just can't enter in there like this (I tried XD They just told me to wait over there, and over there, I got a ticket to come back XD)

IN the same entry, a little above, there's an explanation of how to get tickets for Arashi concert in idol shops. I seriously don't know if this works for butai too, but you can give it a try (I don't know if you speak Japanese, but you can still ask them, they will definietly answer your question better than me). And I remember for Aiba's last butai, people without tickets queued in front of the theater and some got tickets (but you have to show up REALLY early).

Ganbatte and good travel!

[white-remus.livejournal.com]

I can tell you about the Butai stuff, since everyone else has already covered the Johnny's Shop adequately. Basically, fanclub members get first crack at tickets. There are a certain number of tickets that are set aside for Fanclub members only. They are mostly the best seats.

Then there are tickets you can buy normally, as you would any play or anything. You can do this in a number of ways, but the easiest is to use the Lawson combini ticket machine. I wasn't sure if you could buy then from there, so I went to the Lawson just now and tried to buy tickets from there, which I could. They would cost about 9500 yen for the best seats, I think (I didnt look exactly), and you would pick the day you wanted and stuff.

Now, the only thing is that I've never used this method to buy butai tickets personally. I've always just done it through fanclub ballotting. But I have used it to buy other concert tickets (non-JE), and in that case I just paid at the Lawson and they gave me the tickets on the spot. I'm thinking it would be the same for the butai tickets, but they may ask you for an address (cause JE likes to be in everybody's business, and plus the Lawson tickets may be too easy to forge), and in that case you might have to find a friend with a Japanese address.

In any case, the numbers listed on the Jweb are these:
東京公演 (I assume you're going to Tokyo, since you were talking about the Tokyo JE shop)
電子チケットぴあ：
０５７０−０２−９９９９（P-code：３８２−５４２）
０５７０−０２−９９８８（To speak with an operator)

Lawson Ticketing:
０５７０−０８４−００３（L-code: ３４３１５）
０５７０−０００−４０７（To Speak with an operator）

There is one more way, but I think these two are enough. So I would try the Lawson one first, and I would try to use the machine before I tried to call. If you ask the people working in the Lawson, usually they will help you.

And as winkychan said above, during Aiba's butai there were a certain number of tickets that they would have available to people who show up really early and take a number, and then they draw numbers and if yours gets picked, you get to go in. But if you do this, for sure go super early and on a weekday, but I dont know if things will work the same for Ohno's butai as it did for Aiba's. (I have no clue about the Je sketch knockoff shops, so cant help you there. XD)

Anyway, I hope this was helpful. Sorry its so long. T_T

[chiiae.livejournal.com]

I go to the Johnny's store in Harajuku all the time. Depending on the day, and if any new shop photos have been released will decide how busy it is. It's pretty easy to find where the queue is (the massive line up of girls waiting is a bit of a give away.) They also have a map on the Johnny's Website.

I've only had to ask for a ticket to get in once - and that just after all the countdown goodies came out. I've gone at different times of the day, each time has been different. I'd recommend a weekday morning, and just plan to spend a few hours of standing in the line ups.

Good luck and enjoy your stay in Tokyo =)

[zedstar.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how the Tokyo tickets are going, but I know that my friend tried at 11am, the SECOND day that tickets were released for Osaka, and couldn't get ANY tickets whatsoever from the Lawsons. Lawsons is probably the best bet, because the people can help you, and they're lovely- I used them to get tickets to a Hello Pro concert, they were very helpful. ^_^

Otherwise you can try to get tickets (this is how I got mine) by looking on Yahoo Auctions, and seeing if you can get a friend to get them (most of the sellers won't ship overseas) or you can use a bidding service. I used http://www.bid-service.jp/ to get my tickets for Osaka- however, the tickets on Yahoo auctions are EXPENSIVE, and the bid service isn't cheap either. Desperate times call for desperate measures though, so I had to bite the bullet and just buy them anyway.

GOOD LUCK GETTING YOUR TICKETS! And have fun!