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[XiuChen_2199]

It is closing up to 2016
Many of you might already have planned when to go, what to do and where to stay.
Please, share it here, and maybe try to meet up with others who will travel too.

 

 

TIPS:

Suica card

Phone and Pocket wifi rental

Contact regarding any Hello!Project ticket
 

Tip from Ares13:

Side note at the start, I recommend domestic Japan delivery of tickets to your hotel as the best option.

Know what concert you are going for
Concert tie to a special event like graduation?
This concert are more likely to be popular so take the fastest way out or risk paying a lot of money for the tickets or not being able to get the tickets at all.
Normal concert?
More risk can be taken for these concert but it will depend on the location of the concert(Tokyo, Nagoya etc), the popularity of the H!P group, the size of the concert area(Major arena, Concert hall, live house) and the day of the week (weekday or weekend) of the concert.

Camp the news site
This is the first place to get the schedule of the concert.
http://www.helloproj.../event/concert/

There is no way to know for sure when the bidding start for FC priority ..
You can try this site and find with the keyword “ 先行 ” but it is not 100%
http://www.up-fc.jp/...s.php?@PS@=none

So the best way is to check a real person proxy who have H!P FC membership if you are intending to ask them to help you bid for the FC tickets anyway.
No Country For Tall Men Exports
https://www.facebook...rTallMenExports
NozomiChan
http://www.hello-onl...-project-store/
http://www.hello-onl...660-nozomichan/

If you miss the priority bidding date for whatever reason, or you just don’t want to bid for lottery tickets for whatever reason.
You can choose one of the next steps :-
 
Rare Case* - Blog priority bidding (Does not happen most of the time)
Sometimes like MM 2014 falls concert in Budokan and MM 2015 falls concert, they ran a blog priority bidding.
This tickets are after FC priority but before general sales and ran by external ticket sales outlets with their links from their blog.
You can try your luck using the keyword to find “ 先行 ” at the main H!P news site to find if there are such an announcement.
http://www.helloproject.com/news/

General sales usually from the following sites
http://t.pia.jp/
http://eplus.jp/sys/main.jsp

You can use a real person proxy
No Country For Tall Men Exports
https://www.facebook...rTallMenExports
NozomiChan
http://www.hello-onl...-project-store/
http://www.hello-onl...660-nozomichan/

Or an online proxy
http://www.bridge.jpn.com/

Yahoo Auction for FC priority tickets
http://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/
At this stage, the tickets are FC priority tickets that have been won but the seller do not know the seat number. The seller usually sell them as an insurance of getting their money back if they have extra tickets that is terrible.
The tickets are usually at cost or close to cost. The seat are usually bad but it is still FC priority tickets so it should be definitely better than those from general sales.

Online auction bidding service
http://goodyjapan.sakura.ne.jp/
http://www.fromjapan.co.jp/
For http://www.fromjapan.co.jp/
note
1) It is very important to read and understand how the site work if not you will incurred unnecessary cost
2) When bidding .. DO NOT select the insurance for domestic delivery because it a useless increase in cost as Japan is very safe
3) When bidding .. DO remember to tick the ticket item box because it is a ticket

If for any reason, you miss or decide to skip the above steps,  you can bid for them at Yahoo Auction.

Yahoo Auction for priority tickets
*Follow the same steps if you want to bid for general sales ticket for reason that they sold out or you just wanted better general sales ticket

http://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/

The FC lottery winners will usually receive the tickets around 2 weeks before concert date.
Upon receiving the tickets, the winners will know their seat number.
At this stage, the tickets seat number is known so it will go by market rate.
The best time is usually camp them really early as there are many sellers and sellers fear not being able to sell them.
Or you can play chicken with the seller and get them really late which is not advisable.

Online auction bidding service
http://goodyjapan.sakura.ne.jp/
http://www.fromjapan.co.jp/
For http://www.fromjapan.co.jp/
note
1) It is very important to read and understand how the site work if not you will incurred unnecessary cost
2) When bidding .. DO NOT select the insurance for domestic delivery because it a useless increase in cost as Japan is very safe
3) When bidding .. DO remember to tick the ticket item box because it is a ticket

If you are already in Japan and want to get the tickets you can get them if they are available
General sales usually from the following sites
http://t.pia.jp/
http://eplus.jp/sys/main.jsp
You can setup an account and order it with 7-11 payment and collection go down to 7-11 to pay and collect your tickets

You can use resale shop – there are 2 main ticket resale shop in Japan which you can get resale tickets
Note that this only work in Tokyo or greater Tokyo area, it does not work in other cities like Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka .. etc
Yokohama tickets
http://www.yokohamaticket.co.jp/
They got Shinjuku, Ueno, Shibuya and Ikebukuro shop.

Gorakudoh
http://www.gorakudoh.co.jp/
They got 3 shop at Harajuku ..
It is all located on that famous shopping street in Harajuku.

Both site got map to their shop.
Both site are pretty "live" with their updates.
So you can view what is for sale in which shop and the price before going down to the shop.
Again, you can play chicken with the seller and get them really late like a few hours before the show which is not advisable.

[Ares13]

^ Thanks for starting the thread ..

I found that we can also follow the H!P FC on twitter to get notification on news from them
https://twitter.com/ufi_fc

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For 2016, I already book my trip Tokyo from 10 March to 16 March ..
It is going to be a very short trip as that is about the only free time me and my wife got spare ..
However, me and my wife have been to Tokyo quite many times and there is little tourism spot we haven't been to, so it would be a SHOPPING TRIP for my wife ..

Basically I got 6 2shot up for AKB48 on 13 March for the early half of that day .
I got 2shot for 1 with AKB48 Megutan, Moekyun and Yuichan each and 3 with SKE48 Rara
That's all I got planned up

Luck has it that MM is going to have start their spring concert on that weekend in Tokyo ..
The venue is pretty far out at Olympus Hall Hachioji which mean I got bring my wife with me and spend the whole day there ..
Furthermore, it seem really hard to get there .. so I am still looking at my options if I can go ..
As many times I been to Japan (10 times) my 11th time this trip .. I am still not comfortable with traveling too far out away from the city ..
I really want to see Maria perform again but I do have my limits and I do not understand Japanese but I will try my best ..

So anyone been to Olympus Hall Hachioji? and any advise?
Thanks

[Moondoggie]

Where abouts will you be staying? I did a google maps search and I'm assuming I'm looking at the right place looks to be about an hour from Tokyo station on the Chou line which isn't really that bad and the venue seems to be next to Hachioji station too so easy to find.

[XiuChen_2199]

^ Thanks for starting the thread ..

I found that we can also follow the H!P FC on twitter to get notification on news from them
https://twitter.com/ufi_fc

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For 2016, I already book my trip Tokyo from 10 March to 16 March ..
It is going to be a very short trip as that is about the only free time me and my wife got spare ..
However, me and my wife have been to Tokyo quite many times and there is little tourism spot we haven't been to, so it would be a SHOPPING TRIP for my wife ..

Basically I got 6 2shot up for AKB48 on 13 March for the early half of that day .
I got 2shot for 1 with AKB48 Megutan, Moekyun and Yuichan each and 3 with SKE48 Rara
That's all I got planned up

Luck has it that MM is going to have start their spring concert on that weekend in Tokyo ..
The venue is pretty far out at Olympus Hall Hachioji which mean I got bring my wife with me and spend the whole day there ..
Furthermore, it seem really hard to get there .. so I am still looking at my options if I can go ..
As many times I been to Japan (10 times) my 11th time this trip .. I am still not comfortable with traveling too far out away from the city ..
I really want to see Maria perform again but I do have my limits and I do not understand Japanese but I will try my best ..

So anyone been to Olympus Hall Hachioji? and any advise?
Thanks

I was there during the spring tour this year.
The arena is pretty hard to find, since it is inside a building, and if you go up the wrong way you need to go back down and up another escalator.
But overall, it is a nice venue, and you will see the girls really good.
But ye, go there early so you have time to find the venue and buy goods.

[Ares13]

^
^ .. ya .. it seem to be a straight journey Chou line which is the line I took to Nakano where Nakano Sunplaza is and the 2nd hand stuff Trio shops are ..
But the journey seem really far and it seem to go to the end of the Chou line .. so it is intimidating to me

^ Thanks for the advice ..

[Obsidian]

^ There's a limited express from out of Shinjuku on the Chuo line that should only take 30mins. It'll probably cost you over 1000 yen but I always go off UK train costs and that's a killing!

 

 

I shall be over from the New Year until the 11th Jan, hoping to camp out the Winter H!P concerts.

[the rose garden]

I will be in Tokyo and Kyoto in early February and hope to be able to buy a ticket for the H!P Winter finale on the 10th. I'm really excited to see all of 2015 and 2016's debuting members perform

[DomScatterbrain]

I'll be in Japan from 2/5 - 2/12
Landed on Sapporo and start moving around from 2/7.
I put a lottery through one of my friend in FC for J=J 220 performance in Saitama 2/8
And then move to Kyoto, Osaka, and Tokyo again

[maromura]

Ill be in japan from the 15th Jan till 7th of Feb, looking forward to seeing both the day and night concerts in osaka on the 24th

[vutt]

Heads-up: C-ute spring tour 2016 FC ticket acceptance period (28.dec - 15.jan) started. Tour schedule.

 

I have been number of times in Japan, but never during spring/summer period.

They however haven't revealed tour final concert yet. It's usually in June. 

[mmaria002]

I'll be attending at the Hello Project Concert of 24th at 17:00 (Osaka), I'm very excited since I've only seen Berryz and C-ute on France

Also (little offtopic) I'll go at Fudanjuku concert of 23rd at Tokyo and Utapri on the 17th. If anyone is going to attend to any of those three, It would be great to meet and talk a little bit  

[arnoriang]

I'm Attending the 9th HP! Concert (second one of the day). Feel free to meet up before or after the con and chat a bit.

[joshmos]

BUONO!!!!

[JuulChii]

Me and my friend are planning to be in Japan for Buono is Budokan, August 25th

[XiuChen_2199]

I have confirmed I'll attend Buono!
But I am currently trying my best to be able to attend Tamura Meimis graduation concert as well.

 

EDIT: Confirmed I'll be in japan in may

[Sue]

I'm planning to go with a friends in August, there's always H!P summer concert, somebody know if there are handshake in those?

[XiuChen_2199]

I'm planning to go with a friends in August, there's always H!P summer concert, somebody know if there are handshake in those?

 

No, there is no handshake in those.

Only times there is handshakes are live house concerts and single events.

Sometimes certain groups have handshake events before concerts, but it then have something to do with their singles.

For example, Kobushi Factory had handshake event before ANGERME budokan and MM'15 budokan this fall, but to attend it you had to buy their single

[Tony Oguri]

Got wife and kids tickets tonight. First and business class round-trip for under $125 total. AA has some plan changes later in the year. More expensive. Gotta get mine soon. But waiting on schedules for H!P and AKB48G to see what is happening. Most likely late July and early August.

[Ketchup]

Try not to get sick this time Tony!

 

Are those plane tickets obtained from reward points or something?

[Tony Oguri]

Are you back this summer?

I got so sick that it's still remembered and decided not to go to Tokyo this time. Used the hotel points for a guitar instead. And yeah, the airplane tickets are obtained with miles every year. Too much travel for work throughout the year the miles add up quickly.