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Hello! Project’s Juice=Juice has announced additional seats for its Nippon Budokan and PIA Arena MM shows, “Room Tour 2026 ‘5ROOMS -SUITE- / -ROYAL SUITE-‘,” with a ticket-agency presale now underway. The newly released seats are mostly side stand and 2nd-floor standing spots — seat types said to have limited sightlines — priced between ¥8,800 and ¥9,800. On 5ch’s Hello! Project board, fans expressed surprise that the fan club isn’t running a second-round presale, along with frustration that the presale aimed at new fans consists of nothing but side seats and standing room. At the same time, some speculated this might be a deliberate move to draw in new fans who aren’t FC members, leaving opinion divided.
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Nippon Budokan — Additional seats
Side stand seats / Side stand family seats / Family A seats: ¥9,800 (tax included)
Side stand A seats / Side stand family A seats / 2F standing: ¥9,300 (tax included)
2F side stand standing: ¥8,800 (tax included)
PIA Arena MM — Additional seats
Side stand seats / Side stand family seats / 2F standing: ¥9,800 (tax included)
4F side stand family A seats / 2F side stand standing: ¥9,300 (tax included)
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the general sale is basically going to turn into a scalpers' market (tickets resold by people who don't even hold them yet)
they must be confident this'll work
Gotta get people who aren't FC members out to the shows too
Why didn't you just join the FC?
Exactly. Juice=Juice won't be doing big venues from next year on.
That's how badly this isn't selling
Re: #25
That's frustrating.
That's sad
Re: #25
Nothing but lies!
Seat type | Uemura | Kawamura | Shimakura | Ikuta | QU(*) | Makino | 5R
Regular seats: ○ ○ ○ ○ Lot. ○ ○
Family seats: ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
Side stand seats: ○ ○ ○ ○ Lot. ○ ○
Side stand family seats: ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
Family A seats: ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
Side stand A seats: ○ ○ Lot. ○ ○ ○ ○
Side stand A family seats: ○ Lot. ○ Lot. Lot. ○ ○
2F standing: ○ Lot. ○ Lot. Lot. Lot. ○
2F side stand standing: Lot. ○ × Lot. × × ○
Side stand B seats: Lot. × × × × × ×
Side stand family B seats: Lot. × × × × × ×
(*QU = Queen of Hearts; ○ = general sale, Lot. = lottery only, × = not offered)
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¥11,000 — Uemura
¥10,200 — Ikuta
¥10,000 — Kawamura
¥10,000 — Shimakura
¥10,000 — Queen of Hearts
¥10,000 — Makino
¥**,*** — 5ROOMS
The general sale really is nothing but side seats!! (sobbing)
Scrolling through X, I see returning fans who won both — probably coincidence, but it does feel a little rigged
I'm a new fan who joined the FC this year, and I won both
I have zero confidence I'll land the final show.
Just grateful I got Budokan at all
There's no second round, sorry — try your luck elsewhere
So mean~ (づ￣ ³￣)づ
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
That most of the additional seats skew toward side stand and standing spots is clear from the official seat breakdown itself — allocating the better-sightline seats heavily to the FC presale while routing the rest through ticket agencies is a common practice for other groups’ shows too. It’s worth noting that the claim circulating in the thread that “there won’t be any big-venue shows from next year on” isn’t based on any official announcement or sales figures — it’s purely speculation from an anonymous poster. Opinion in the thread remained split, with frustration over the lack of a second FC presale existing alongside the view that this could be a presale slot aimed at drawing in new fans. It’s also worth keeping in mind that, since ticket agencies take a cut of the proceeds, agency presales are generally treated as a supplementary tool for driving attendance rather than a primary one.
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “Additional seats confirmed for “Juice=Juice Room Tour 2026 ‘5ROOMS -SUITE- / -ROYAL SUITE-‘”! Ticket-agency presale now open!“.
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