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Tokyo 2020 launches ticketing process
TOKYO, April 18, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Tokyo 2020 organisers on Thursday launched a portal
detailing prices and timings for Olympic events, as they prepare to throw open ticket
applications via lottery for Japanese residents.
The new website lists prices for the record 339 events in 33 sports — ranging from
the cheapest general tickets at 2,500 yen ($22) to an eye-watering 300,000 yen for the
best seats at the opening ceremony.
Those lucky enough to score the best seats for the showcase men’s 100-metre final will
pay 130,000 yen.
But half of all tickets will be priced at 8,000 yen or less, organisers stressed and
special tickets priced at 2,020 yen are available for families resident in Japan with
children, senior citizens or people with impairments.
However, the website is currently for planning purposes only as the ticket lottery for
Japanese residents runs from May 9 to 28.
Overseas fans will be able to snap up tickets from June 15 via special “Authorised
Ticket Resellers” in each country.
They can however access the website in English from Thursday at
https://ticket.tokyo2020.org/?culture=en-us.
Organisers were not able to give a precise number of tickets available as various
stadium configurations are still being finalised with just less than 500 days to go
until the opening ceremony.
But they said it would be roughly the same as the 7.8 million tickets they estimated
when bidding for the right to host the Games.
Of these tickets, an estimated 70-80 percent would be allotted to Japanese residents
with the rest going to overseas fans.
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics will run from July 24 to August 9. Tickets for the
Paralympics will become available this summer.
BSS/AFP/AU/11:55 hrs