[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by immel

I have always been addicted to music, all kinds of music. After having known about Ayu for 5 years I, 3 months ago, decided that maybe I should actually listen to some of her music. Why hadn't I done so before? I had earlier automatically put her in the same category as artists like Britney Spears and such, guess if I regret that now.

Wow, only 3 months? Impressive. I actually had only known about Ayu for less than a year when I first went to see her. But that's kind of how you have to do it: you make the comitment to go and then just GO, or else you may never do it.

Originally Posted by immel

The days passed and I kept up my research, my parents was first against the idea, as I would be using all my money I had saved up for the trip. The days passed, the first performances at the Saitama Arena came and went. Then it happened... SunshineSlayer posted her review of the concert. That was the final blow, I had to go to Tokyo.

Thanks for mentioning me! I hope all my advice helped. Oh, and you can pm me again now - I cleaned out my mail box.

Originally Posted by immel

This part was simple, there are several pages that compare travelling with different companies. I used www.pricerunner.com. My two-way flight ticket to Tokyo, Narita from Stockholm, Arlanda cost me 750€.

Just want to interject here, that if you live in a city with a large Asian population there should be at least one Asian travel agency. They will have the cheapest rates to Japan. I can't remember the exact price of my ticket, but it was less than $650 roundtrip.

Originally Posted by immel

I got one of my tickets before I went to Tokyo, for the performance at the 22/4. I knew the location of one ticket re-seller store before I went, I decided I would get the 23/4 ticket when I arrived there.
Don't do the same mistake as me, I got my ticket before I went to Tokyo. I did so because I wanted to have them in my hand before I actually went. It's a total waste of cash.

Yep, I believe I talked about that in my thread. You end up spending an unnecassary amount if you buy your tickets online. But I know that it seems too scary to go to Japan without already having tickets in your hand.

Originally Posted by immel

Akibado charge some extra and then ship it home to you. I don't know how much they charge, I've never used them.

I e-mailed them once asking if they could ship to a hotel in Tokyo and I never recieved a reply, so I don't know how reliable they are.

Originally Posted by immel

Next year I will have contacts in Japan that can join Team Ayu for me, I'm looking forward so much to that .

I made some contacts for Morning Musume, so yay for me!

Originally Posted by immel

It should be mentioned that I did not see any scalper present at any of the performances at the Yoyogi Arena.

Maybe they hide it better at Yoyogi or crackdown more on scalpers there? Or they could have been at the train station. All I know is, they were at Saitama all over the place the second that you exited the train station.

Also, could you try to give directions for where you found the Shibuya reseller? Because I was looking for some around there but came up empty.

Originally Posted by immel

Another option is the Capsule Hotels, I had intentionally planned my trip so that for 3 night I would have no where to sleep, I wanted to see if I could
solve that on my own when I was in Tokyo.

You're crazy. lol