We Finally Bought Ghibli Museum Tickets!

Actually, Risa's the one who bought it. She was kind enough to help us buy the tickets at Lawson Japan. 

If it were not for Risa and Natalia, we'd never get our hands on it. Perhaps. We'd originally planned to visit Ghibli Museum on March 21st and bought the ticket ourselves at Lawson later in Japan. Tickets for each month up to three months ahead will be sold from the 1st date of every month - and they say Ghibli tickets often sell out so fast, so yes I was getting anxious. I don't want to miss a chance to go to Ghibli Museum, because I'd really REALLY REALLY love to meet Totoro T.T

By the way, I'm the only one who has ever watched Ghibli movies among our group. My friends do not even know what Ghibli is =.=; yet they are happy to comply with my request to go to Ghibli Museum!! *rejoice*  

Since, as I've said, we couldn't ignore the probability of us not getting the ticket if we purchased it in Japan, we'd thought to buy it in advance via agents. Well, if you google it, there's a number of them offering such service, with of course, a higher price for the cost. 

So Nata instead contacted our friend Risa (Risa was an exchange student from Japan and we shared a lot of classes together back then when we were in uni) to ask if she could help us obtain 3 Ghibli tickets for March 21st. 

Turned out, all tickets for all time slots on that day have sold out. 

SOLD OUT, although it is still a month away. 

And so we had to change our itinerary and put our Ghibli visit a day earlier to March 20th. There are 4 available time slots and visitors can choose which among these: 10am/12pm/2pm/4pm. 

We chose 10 a.m.; yet all tickets for this time slot, unfortunately, sold out already! That kinda reminds me when I purchased Big Bang concert tickets a couple of years ago, online (that was way more intense by the way). 

But thanks God, the 12 p.m. slot tickets were still available and obviously, we took them. 

Minutes later, Risa sent this pic to Nata, which she forwarded to us. 

T.T *cries*

We'll need to exchange the tickets with the real ones later at the museum's entrance booth. We'll also meet Risa (who happens to live in Mitaka now) to say our heartfelt thanks!

So.

Three weeks more to go.

Hopefully all will be well.