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Results for Snow Man’s dome tour ‘DOME TOUR 2026-2027 ALL SUITE’ ticket lottery were announced on September 10. More than half the tickets listed on resale sites reportedly turned out to be for the Hokkaido show, and on 5channel, posts like “I put ‘anywhere is fine’ as my 4th choice and got Hokkaido” and “I listed Hokkaido as high as my 3rd choice and still lost” sparked growing doubts about the lottery method. The thread split between those who argued that not getting your preferred pick is just how a lottery works, and those who found it strange that the results didn’t match the stated preference rankings, with the heavy burden of travel and lodging costs to reach Hokkaido also becoming a talking point.
More than half of the ‘Snow Man DOME TOUR 2026-2027 ALL SUITE’ tickets listed on resale sites were for the Hokkaido show.
The ticket lottery results for Snow Man’s dome tour, kicking off October 30, have sparked mixed reactions among fans.
‘Snow Man DOME TOUR 2026-2027 ALL SUITE’ will run for 18 shows total across five major dome venues, starting with Hokkaido’s Daiwa House Premist Dome (Sapporo Dome), followed by Tokyo, Aichi, Osaka, and Fukuoka. Ticket lottery results were announced on September 10.
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What people said
Even Chitose is bad, let alone Sapporo
Bet you'd be pissed if it were Aomori or Yamaguchi though
A venue big enough for Snow Man would be a dome anyway, so it'd be Tokyo/Nagoya/Osaka, right?
Honestly, that would still be better
No idea if there's even a venue there though lol
Honestly, the normal move is to book hotels and transport for every possible outcome with free cancellation the moment you apply
Probably got off without charges due to diminished capacity
It's like that
Huh? Didn't you just say anytime, anywhere was fine?
Do you not understand Japanese?
4th choice 'anywhere' → won Hokkaido
Hokkaido listed as high as 3rd choice → lost
That's the weird part, get it?
Depending on how the lottery's actually run, that's not necessarily strange at all
If you wrote Hokkaido anywhere on your list, regardless of rank = Hokkaido
Surveying women is pointless
Since it's never their real answer
If you don't like it, just decline
Are you stupid?
Girl: 'Nah, anything's fine.'
Guy: 'Okay, let's get curry.'
Girl: 'Ehh…'
Curry's kind of pricey, go with gyudon (beef bowl) instead
The Shinkansen only reaches as far as Hakodate, so it takes forever from there
And flights might be packed and hard to book too
And the cheapest option, driving, isn't really usable either
The people who wanted Hokkaido lost that lottery
If open slots just get filled by preference, that's not really a lottery
It's not that they allocate afterward — they run a separate lottery for each preferred venue
Since fewer people want Hokkaido than Tokyo or Osaka, the win rate for Hokkaido ends up higher
You can't apply for multiple venues with Snow Man, right?
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
This tour comprises 18 shows total across five major dome venues in Hokkaido, Tokyo, Aichi, Osaka, and Fukuoka. Applications appear to have used a ranked-preference format, and one view that emerged in the thread was that ‘anywhere is fine’ — effectively the lowest-priority option — may naturally funnel toward the Hokkaido show, which tends to be less popular due to its logistics. Since getting to Hokkaido generally requires flying or a lengthy Shinkansen trip, and lodging tends to run more expensive there, the application-to-seat ratio may genuinely have differed by venue from the start. At the same time, the organizers haven’t clarified whether the lottery is run independently per venue or as a single draw that factors in ranked preferences across the board, so individual anecdotes like “I listed Hokkaido as my 3rd choice and lost, but got in with ‘anywhere’ as my 4th choice” aren’t enough on their own to confirm whether the lottery process actually produced a genuine contradiction. Much of the disagreement in the thread stems from the fact that these lottery details were never made public.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt/summary of the 5channel (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “Snow Man Tour: Picking ‘Anywhere Is Fine’ as 4th Choice Wins Hokkaido — ‘Complaint’ Post Blows Up, Fans Question Organizers’ Lottery Method.”
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