Best Way to Obtain Tickets?

Can you be a little more specific? Like, what cities will you be in? How long will you be here? What teams are you interested in seeing? Do you already know the baseball schedule, or are you just sort of throwing this question into a void?

Tickets wouldn't normally be difficult to get, but you are arriving on the cusp of a major national holiday (from May 3-6), so you might find more difficulty than usual. But there should still be plenty of tickets left to most games.

I am passing through Japan for a couple of days and would like to see the Carp play. Unfortunately they are on the road when I can go to a game (Yokohama on Wednesday the 16th).

It's possible to arrange a ticket beforehand but I wonder if anyone knows if there is a section at the ballparks where visitors' fans tend to sit. I tried the Carp website for information on this, and even though I don't read Japanese, I found the Carp fan club web page. (I did get to an e-form but figured I might end up buying season's tickets if I went any further.)

If anyone knows how I can get a ticket near/with the Carp fans, I would appeciate if you could post that here.

Angie

Depends on which Stadium you go to. Every time I've been to Hiroshima with my BayStars, we always sit in the left field stands, upper part. At Yokohama Stadium, you can sit anywhere on the 3rd base side and left field stands and be near Carp fans, although you may want to just sit near the cheering section in the left field stands.

In almost all stadiums, the home team supporters sit on the first base side and the visiting team sit on the third base side. The exceptions are Sendai (Rakuten) and Sapporo (Nippon Ham), as far as I know.

The biggest concentration of visiting fans is always definitely in a designated area in the outfield. (At places like Koshien and the Tokyo Dome, though, this "visiting side" concept kind of goes out the window, and you can expect to be surrounded by home fans pretty much everywhere except that designated cheering area in the outfield.)

Yokohama on a Wednesday night will not be crowded, so if you sit anywhere on the third base side you should be fine. The best bet to be near a big group of fans is, yeah, the left field bleachers, but that depends on whether you want to sing and cheer or not. And you really, really, really don't need to worry about buying tickets in advance for that one.

Thanks Deanna and BayFan, I appreciate the comments.

If Wednesday against the Carp is an easy ticket, then I will go to the stadium to buy a ticket close to 3rd base then wander around once I am inside.

Angie