Knowing Ayu, she will most likely add dates after a-nation occurs in August/September and end the tour some time in October or November like she did last year for AT09. I remember we had no idea that AT09 was going to extend into late October last year, and then when she added the dates, it was like "WHAT?" and people were surprised. We should probably expect a repeat of whatever she does at AT10 at a-nation '10 after having Mirrorcle World and Rule be the opening acts for the last two years. I wonder why she waits until it gets close to a-nation to announce those dates... I guess to see if she's up to it?

!!! at the tickets being 700 yen more than usual. (7800 yen is the usual price.)

Umm...8500 yen!!? I mean, previously it was around 5500-6500 or some 7500 yen, but 8500 yen!!? Why does Avex really have to set Ayu's concert ticket prices that high!!? :thud

(That's around $93.25 in USD, as of 1/15/2010 - really quite high there...)

@nanakopy87
at 2008 had around 33 but with Asian dates, AT 09 had 35 only in japan (I think so ^^)

hmmm I guess they need the cash since everything's gone up...
or maybe everybody's getting golden tickets..??? ;D

so,i think she'll add some dates in the future?since it not considered as longest tour unless she's going to taiwan or shanghai or hong kong for her extended NEXT LEVEL concert(if she counted that to AT10)

FInally it out! Gonna plan my trip now

Ayu holds very grand tours each year. It's very expensive to move around the sets to and from each city. Because Ayu told us she would be having a longer and / or bigger tour this year, the ticket prices increased... probably.

Ugh I was hoping for a title... but at least now I can plan my Japan trip around which date I'll be going to.

ouch at the ticket prices~

But well...at least we know what is offsetting the cost lol

finally.

first post updated (it would be nice to change the thread title to "ayumi hamasaki ARENA TOUR 2010 A (provisional) [dates announced] anyone know how to do it? only mods can do??

well so that's it... I was also impresed how they increased the price... but well... It has been quite a lot of years and the price was the same... amb used to see prices increas every year for everything... so well... ^^

as you can see in the screenshot it says that TA will start buying tickets on the 18th of january ^^ so only in 3 days tickets will start selling for TA ^^

Maybe those high prices are to offset those costs associated to a lot of moving, because they're going to visit a lot of venues...

And maybe sometime later this year she might announce the autumn campaign of the Arena Tour 2010, as usually a-nation comes in August, and the autumn campaign during October (maybe November also) might also be exciting; she might also add dates during the spring/early summer campaign, but we'll just have to see...

7800 yen is the usual price for her CDLs and tours, at least it's been like that since AT05, I think. (Checked AT05 and it was 7500 yen back then.) It's really not that much higher. But the higher ticket prices might translate to needing more money to execute the tour. (new set? bigger outfits? something else?)

Maybe also struggling economic conditions?

If the price of the tour jumped, maybe Ayu is taking AHS's tour advice.... xD;

I really hope it is for something cool, and not for avex just wanting to be sure of a profit.

(and i mean like...not because of something cool)

It's a little too big of an increase for it to be because of economic conditions. A hundred or so yen, maybe... but 700? It'll probably show in the tour itself since the tickets are so much more expensive. I wonder how much the production cost for this tour will end up being.

Yeah, we could try to take a look at the production costs, but unless we politely ask Avex about it after they post those dates in Ayu's actual official website, then this data is quite a bit classified...

finally tour dates! I don't mind another arena tour...I guess the overseas concert thing won't be happening. New album in March?

btw...how soon after last year's tour date announcement did we get the info on the NEXT LEVEL album release?

From what I've seen, production costs tend to almost always be revealed in post-concert articles. I think AT07 was something like 1.6-1.7 billion yen? Even DOME TOUR 2001 was said to have been around that price.

Also, since CDL09-10's tickets were offered at the normal price, I don't think much has happened economically since a few weeks ago, so that somewhat rules out the economic times as a reason for why the prices are slightly higher.