Buying tickets for the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo is quite tricky. Here at Buyticketsjp, we want to help you in getting those tickets. So, we have prepared this guide to help you achieve that elusive goal.

Basically, there are three processes for buying tickets. The international way, the domestic way, and the resell way. Let's first talk about the International process.

The international process is like a queue, and lottery rolled into one. It requires you to be ready to buy tickets at 10am JST no matter where you are in the world. Now, for some, depending on where you are in the world, this requires you to be up at 1 or 2 am with mulitple devices in the morning with no guarantee that you will get the ticket you want. You are placed in a queue that has 1000s to 10,000 people. This process is also unreliable, as shown by many reports online. It is a lottery, with many reports of people getting kicked off or reaching the end of the queue and then having some error pop up, sending you to the back of the queue. Talk about useless.

So if you would like to try, please go to the international purchase site , and good luck.

Now, let's talk about the domestic queue. The domestic queue is designed for domestic residents in Japan. There aren't so people many buying at once. But it's still highly competitive, and the weekends are the first to go. Tickets are released at exactly the same time as the international ones, and most tickets are sold within a week or two. Random tickets are released from cancellations each day, but these are usually one or two at random dates and times. If you don't purchase within the first day or two, you can forget about getting anything early in the month.

So this is where we step in. We are a buying service that offers to purchase tickets on your behalf. We advise you to book in advance as we will be there ready and waiting to get you those tickets before they are released. These tickets will be in your name in Katakana( Japanese charcters used for foreign words and names), so there is no chance of rejection. But we do realize that some people will try the international version first and then come to us. If so, you will likely need to compromise on time and dates. From experience, we simply can not purchase tickets for the dates customers require as they have already sold out.

Our Service can be found at BuyTicketsJP

The final way is the most difficult. Japan is covered by ticket resell shops across the country. Many of these ticket shops are not chains(so they won't contact each other) and have staff that only speak Japanese. There is no guarantee one shop or even ten shops you visit will have the required tickets. The tickets they sell are also in other people's names and are most likely Japanese names. So, in the case that you actually get tickets, you would have a final hurdle. Ghibli Museum often asks for names and sometimes ID checks. Which might result in you and your family being denied entry to the Museum. So the best choice would be to choose us as we will be ready to buy the moment the tickets are released.

How to buy tickets for Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo?