Tokyo Paralympics Watching Ticket Application starts August 22, 4:16
Application for lottery ticket sales for the Tokyo Paralympic Games next year began on the 22nd on the official website for the Paralympic Games.
Applications for lottery sales of tickets for the Tokyo Paralympic Games began on the 22nd on the newly established official website.
To purchase tickets, you need to register for the “Tokyo 2020 ID”, which is common to the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, and those who have applied for Olympic tickets can use the same ID.
Those who apply for the Paralympic Games must newly register, and as of August 1, there are approximately 7.6 million ID registrants.
In lottery sales, you can apply for up to 30 tickets per person for the 1st and 2nd choices, and the maximum number of winners is 30.
The acceptance period is until 11:59 am on September 9, and the results will be announced on October 2.
The Tokyo Paralympic tickets will be sold on the official website for the second time next year, and will be on sale at the sales office after next spring.
The Organizing Committee has called, “Please note that the official sales site of the Paralympic Games is different from the Olympics. The order of application does not affect the result of the drawing, so please apply with enough time during the period.”
Details of how to apply
To apply for lottery sales of tickets for the Tokyo Paralympic Games, it is necessary to register for the “Tokyo 2020 ID” common to the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
Those who apply for Olympic tickets can use the same ID, but those who apply for the Paralympic Games need to register again.
Application procedure. Select “Purchase Tickets” on the official website and search for the competition you want to watch from the three search methods: “Search by Schedule”, “Search by Competition / Event”, and “Search by Area / Venue”.
Once you have chosen the competition you want, select the ticket type, seat type, and number of applications.
The types of tickets that can be applied are ▼ “general tickets” with a maximum of 5 types from A seat to E seat, ▼ “wheelchair user ticket / companion ticket” exclusively for wheelchair users and their companions, ▼ and children, There are three types of “Tokyo 2020 Everyone Support Ticket” for two or more people including one with elderly disabilities.
You can apply for up to 30 tickets per person for the first and second requests, and the maximum number of applications is 30 in total.
If the official website is crowded, the expectation of waiting time etc. will be shown on the screen Even after the application procedure is over, it will be until 11:59 am on September 9th Within the acceptance period You can add, change or cancel your application.
If you want to change the contents, you need to cancel the application once again from “My Ticket”, the page where you log in using your personal ID on the official website. Also, once the acceptance period has passed, you will not be able to change or cancel the number.
The result of the lottery will be announced on October 2nd, and it will be displayed for each item applied for from “My Ticket” whether it has been won or lost, and you can check the number of tickets won and the amount of the ticket.
Will a full stadium be realized?
The total number of tickets for the Tokyo Paralympic Games is about 2.3 million at the stage of the invitation plan, and the Organizing Committee is aiming to sell out the tickets to realize a “full stadium” to fill the venue.
The IPC = International Paralympic Committee summarized that 2.75 million copies were sold at the 2012 London Games and 2.15 million at the last Rio de Janeiro Games, but none of them were sold out.
Only about 60% of respondents answered that they were interested in the Paralympic in the latest public opinion poll of the NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, but the Tokyo Organizing Committee was sold out of tickets that could not be realized in the previous two tournaments. Aiming to
For this reason, in addition to making the cheapest ticket available for group purchases at 500 yen, we want to encourage children to watch using the “School-Linked Watch Ticket” sold to children and students through the local government.
In addition, in order to promote the appeal of the competition, a video introducing the first Spanish soccer representative, Andres Iniesta, a global superstar belonging to J1 Vissel Kobe, was introduced to "Blind Soccer". In the future, we will continue to hold events to convey the value, appeal and fun of the Paralympic Games with Para athletes.
The Organizing Committee said, “I think it's important for the audience to come to the venue when the tickets are sold out, so I would like to carefully convey information about the competition to those who purchased the tickets so that the full stadium can be realized.” It is said.