How It Works
1. Choose your date from our schedules.
2. Securely order with Visa, MasterCard, AmEx, Discover or PayPal.
3. Tickets hand-delivered to your hotel or other Japan address.
(You may order without yet having your address. We'll follow up later for that.)
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We're delighted to offer personal service for tickets.
While I tend to mention baseball here, this applies to sumo as well.
I’m often asked about getting tickets in Japan. In the past I've suggested:
"Just show up. You'll get a seat."
This was particularly hopeful advice given the popularity of baseball and sumo, the habit of Japanese to purchase tickets well in advance, and often sold out dates. Sometimes even when I was certain a game wouldn't be sold out, it turned out to be. I looked like an idiot.
"Try the advance sale ticket outlets."
I suggested advance-sale outlets only to find so many people thwarted by failure to find an outlet, the language barrier, payment hassles, and sold out games because their own travel dates didn't allow them to be in Japan early enough to get tickets.
"Maybe you could try something online."
Japanese online services are no better with their general inability to accept out-of-country credit cards, the need for a Japanese address and phone to go with the credit card, and the latest being online counterfeit ticket printing. I've also now had people tell me they were barred entry because computer printed ticket barcodes were not accepted.
Do What I Do
Finally I woke up to simply suggest doing what I do, along with team scouts, Major League Baseball personnel and many travel agents. Have Wayne Graczyk in Japan get your tickets for you.
Wayne is a US Air Force veteran and long-time Japan resident. He's a baseball columnist for The Japan Times, an interpreter for the Tokyo Giants television crew, and editor of the Japan Baseball Media Guide.
You pay Wayne exactly what we do - a modest tip for his efforts in getting your tickets and having them securely delivered to you. His tip is more than offset by your travel time and money saved, hassle avoided, and peace of mind.
Wayne is your personal Ticket Concierge while you're in Japan. You'll have all his contact information. He's a terrific resource to have standing by while you're in Japan and he's given assistance on many topics to our JapanBall ticket holders.
Further, I'm happy to help you choose your game based on your itinerary and answer Japan travel questions you may have. See my contact info below.
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Guaranteed Price and Ticket Delivery
Wayne literally stands in your place in the ticket line. You never pay more than what you yourself would pay for such tickets using your own credit card.
We charge you only enough per ticket to take into account the currency exchange rate, credit card use, and ticketing fee, if any, for that particular venue.
At times there may be price promotions that Wayne uncovers. We pass along those savings by putting the saved money in your ticket envelope.
Tickets are hand-delivered by our courier to your hotel or any other address in Japan. Guaranteed.
We've never, not once, failed to have tickets delivered as promised.
Feel free to order without yet having your hotel or delivery address. You can email us that information later. Don't worry, we'll remind you.
We don't send tickets outside Japan. To do so via FedEx or similar insured guaranteed delivery service is very costly. And we don't trust the less expensive services. We prefer to keep your tickets in our local hands at all times.
If there's a rainout we can help you get you a ticket refund.
All tickets are delivered at the same time on orders that contain more than one event, stadium or arena.
Your Seat Location
You'll have reserved seats together as close to home plate (or center arena in the case of sumo) and as close to an aisle as we can get in your price range as are available when you order.
For the overall experience of the Japanese game, we find that a mid-range seat is adequate. If you're simply going for the experience, the pageantry, to have a nice time at the ballpark, to wander around a bit and just take in another aspect of Japan, a mid-range seat is fine.
The same holds true for Sumo. A moderately priced seat is sufficient to get a good flavor of the experience.
You can read more about the particular seating locations in the baseball and sumo ticket sections of this site.
Ordering Hints, Youth/Senior Prices and Post-Season Play
Order your tickets as soon as you know your date. The Japanese tend to buy tickets in advance, so there is no percentage in delaying.
We require at least four days lead time to complete your order and have your tickets safely delivered.
Sold out games are listed on the baseball order page. Sumo sellouts are similarly noted on the sumo order page.
We rarely get shut out. With our ticket office contacts, we have excellent success.
Everyone must have a ticket, though babes in arms and toddlers have been allowed in without tickets to sit on an adult lap at the discretion of the ticket taker.
Teams have no youth/senior prices on advanced sale reserved seats. We don't offer non-reserved general admission seats since they don't go on sale until game day, and do so in limited numbers. Seats in the baseball outfield organized cheer sections are available only to cheer group members.
We don't do tickets to post-season play because of the limited lead time once teams become known and almost immediate sellouts.
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One Order Fee
All orders include $59 per order for Ticket Purchase Fee, Concierge Service and Hand-Delivery.
That's $59 per total order - not per ticket or per event. This $59 takes care of all costs in getting your tickets and securely delivering them to you in Japan.
Bottom line is this: You never pay more per ticket than you yourself would pay at the ticket window using your credit card.
We buy tickets for you under the usual conditions you'd expect: Once purchased they allow no refunds or exchanges.
Our service is designed for the casual traveler purchasing a few tickets. If you're a group leader, a baseball scout working up an itinerary, or plan to visit more than a few different venues, please contact me directly by Clicking Here or see my contact info below.
Feel free to be in touch with any questions.
Bob
Bob Bavasi
email: Bob@JapanBall.com
website: www.JapanBall.com
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JapanBall - USA
4904 Harbor Lane
Everett, WA 98203
Phone: 425-423-9655
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JapanBall - Japan
1-12-18 Kichijoji Higashi-cho
Musashino-shi, Tokyo-to
Japan 180-0002
