How to book tickets

Tickets for the National Noh Theatre and National Bunraku Theatre: You can purchase tickets online, by phone, or in person at the theaters' Ticket Office.
Tickets for the Council-organized performances presented in other theaters while the National Theatre and National Engei Hall are closed (After this, referred to as "PERFORMANCES OUTSIDE " ): You can purchase tickets only online and by phone.
However, tickets on the day of the event will be sold at the performance venue if seats remain.

Online

Follow the instruction below.

Online Booking Service

• Only credit cards are accepted.
• Tickets for the National Noh Theatre and National Bunraku Theatre should be picked up at each Theatre's Ticket Office.
• • Tickets for PERFORMANCES OUTSIDE should be picked up only at 7-ELEVEN (convenience store) in Japan. Please be careful. You cannot pick up reserved tickets at the performance venue.

By Phone

Call +81-3-3230-3000.
(Domestic call: 0570-07-9900/03-3230-3000)

• Phone lines are open every day between 10 am and 6 pm JST except on July 1 and during the New Year holidays.
• Payment can be made at 7-ELEVEN (convenience store) in Japan. Credit cards and cash (yen only) are accepted.
• Tickets for the National Noh Theatre and National Bunraku Theatre should be picked up at 7-ELEVEN (convenience store) in Japan or at each Theatre's Ticket Office.
• Tickets for PERFORMANCES OUTSIDE should be paid for and picked up at 7-ELEVEN (convenience store) in Japan.

On-site

You can also come directly to the theaters' Ticket Office.Basically, tickets for PERFORMANCES OUTSIDE are not available on-site.

• Open every day between 10 am and 6 pm JST except the dates below.
• Closed on July 1 and during the New Year holidays.
• Cash (yen only) and credit cards are accepted.
• Tickets on the day of the event will be sold at the performance venue only if seats remain, including PERFORMANCES OUTSIDE.

Ticket Policies

• In principle, purchased tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded.
  In cases where the Council cancels or postpones an event, a special exchange/refund policy may be applied.
  In such exceptional cases, we will notify you of our measures on this website and by other appropriate means.
• Ticket booking is available one day before the event.
• Tickets on the day of the event will be sold at the performance venue only if seats remain, including PERFORMANCES OUTSIDE.

Concessions

Concessionary tickets are available to:

• Members of Azekura-kai and Bunraku-tomo-no-kai (only available in Japanese.)
• Students
• Seniors (aged 65+)
• Disability
• Groups of 10 or more*

*For details of group discounts, please contact each theater:

• National Theatre: Business Division [email] eigyo-nt@ntj.jac.go.jp
• National Engei Hall: Business Division [email] eigyo-eh@ntj.jac.go.jp
• National Noh Theatre (Japanese only)
• National Bunraku Theatre (Japanese only)