Based out of the USA here and bought Ghibli Museum tickets through the Japanese website, since the one for foreigners showed sold out.
I received an email from I-tike.com with confirmation that my tickets were successfully purchased. However seems like I need to pick up the physical ticket from a Lawson store (I assume from a Loppi machine). Anyone have experience with this? I cant read japanese but worst case can use my camera translator, but is there an English option?
Also I gave my US phone number at the site and seems like it accepted it without any issues.
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I don’t remember seeing English on the machine but the email should have a link to a guide with pictures.
Lucky. I tried for 2 hours to get a ticket as soon as they went live…in Japan now and won’t get to experience Ghibli
I can’t answer your question, but any advice in buying the tickets online? I have a friend in Japan that offered to buy them for me, but the ticket needs to have my name on it, right? Would they be able to just put my name on it when they fill the form out? If I need to instead buy them myself online, how was that process?
English options on the loppi are …limited
Like most things in Japan, the translations are often quite inaccurate. But, huge bonus is how ludicrously helpful the locals are, if you struggle with the machine at all, the staff will assist.
It’ll ask for a QR code or the confirmation code, enter that and then you’ll also need the phone number you provided when you purchased (doesn’t matter if it’s real or with you btw) the machine will give you a receipt and you have to swap that for the tickets at the Lawson counter (straight away)
There’s an option for a QR code. For me it was the 3rd link in the email. Scanned it into the Loppi, said yes to the things it asked. It printed a receipt. Took the receipt to the counter (you have to do that within 30 minutes of the receipt being printed) and they gave me my tickets in a little envelope, as well as a map!
Sorry have another question for anyone who knows Japanese. The [Keyboard on Step 7](https://l-tike.com/guide/receipt.html) in this link, shows I need to enter my name in Japanese. I have the characters in Katakana. But this keyboard shows Hiragana I believe? Can you please confirm? Is there a way on the keyboard to convert to Katakana?
Here you go:
https://l-tike.com/guide/loppi_english.html
We went to the Ghibli Museum two weeks ago. Just a heads up, everything is spoken and written in Japanese. Cool merch, mediocre cafe food (fyi if you don’t care for the special foods, you can order on the left side of the cafe for the basic foods), Much smaller than I anticipated. You will most likely cross through Inokashira Park to get to the museum and I enjoyed that experience a lot more than the museum.
Quite important to note: once you pay for them, you have only 5 days to pick them up from lawson! Sorry if this is bad news
How did you buy through Japanese website? Do they still have availability there?
I reserved and got my chainsawman exhibit tix with loppi. Quite easy with instructions provided in confirmation email. Was able to change the alphabet to roman letters to type name (the option is in Japanese).
Booking was an absolute nightmare. 2 hours of refreshing, selecting tickets and only to have them be sold by the time we have inputted all the details. That’s if we were lucky enough to get through, which we weren’t for the first hour. Thankfully, we were able to get a ticket at the very end of April, but it completely diddled our plans so we had to reschedule a lot of our trip. I really hope it is worth the pain, because that’s was so freaking stressful.
I just did this! Pick up is really easy, as others have said, QR code and then receipt to clerk who then prints the ticket for you. I actually just asked where the Loppi machine was and he just did everything for me. Either way, don’t worry it won’t be an issue.
The more pertinent point is that the museum is very small and very Totoro and Nausicaa oriented. If you’re into the more “popular” Ghibli films I think you’ll be disappointed. It’s quite a trek out of Tokyo, but the park and surrounding town of Mitaka are really cool.
There’s also a Lawson quite literally across the street from ghibli museum, so if you go there and run into issues I’m sure the cashier could possibly help troubleshoot since others probably have experience the same there.
The international site only offers tickets for the Ghibli’s Grand Warehouse area. Do the tickets you purchased through the Japanese website also offer tickets to the other areas?
I did something similar with baseball tickets and then again with a ticket to a car show. For one of them I had some trouble and just showed the employee and they helped, no big deal. You shouldn’t have any problems.