How to buy EXO (or KPOP) Concert Ticket in Japan (part 1)

Updates on EXO Planet #5 tickets can be found here link

I’ve been a big K-Pop fan for more than 10 years now and my newest, latest obsession now is the ever so popular, EXO. Greatest thing about having a job is obviously the available funds to finally do all the things I would love to do as a fan 10 years ago. One of it being, attending my favourite band’s overseas concert and since I couldn’t/don’t know how to get tickets for Seoul, I went for the next best thing, Japan!

Before I went on with how to get the tickets, below are some overviews of Japan concert ticketing process. It is very different compared to most concert ticketing we are used to so make sure you read through and understand this.

Similar to concert in Seoul, all seats in the stadium are officially priced the same. For EXO Planet #4 Elyxion in both Tokyo/Osaka it was ¥10,800 per ticket. Since it’s a flat price, the ticketing process would usually go in the below order;

In all the above official sales, you will not be able to choose the zone, seats and most of the time would not even know what you will be getting until you have paid for it.

Japan ticketing are popular for being restricted for only those with Japanese phone number/address and does not accept foreign credit card. This is still true but below are some of the possible methods to obtain your hands on those Japan concert tickets without any of those so please don’t give up yet. ^^

First of all, you have to know when the general sales/lottery are open and how much is the actual ticket price. Obviously, if you were trying to search for tickets before sale actually opens you’ll get no result or if you don’t know what is the ticket price, you won’t be able to make a good purchase decision.

Part 2 is here

If you need help finding information for your dream concert in Japan for other bands, contact me on Twitter here. I’ll try to help out if I can 😁