2020 Tokyo Olympic organizers set Y300,000 cap for ticket prices

I have always found it slightly ironic that the most sought after and expensive tickets for the world's greatest sporting event are for the bit of it that contains no sport at all.

Much of the London Olympics was sold out. Sensible pricing helped, but also the public got really enthusiastic about it, ages in advance.

Fingers crossed that Tokyo-ites will too.

Thanks for the ticket info. With that prices, I can fly to new world..Cambodia, Bhutan, Mongolia, etc, But I'll be wandering around country side and experience local culture, food, agriculture.

This is the only international event in the world where it's run at a loss before tickets are even released.

How do they justify these prices? Are they trying to recoup all th money they outlaid? I’m planning on going back to my home country while the olympics are on. I don’t want to be here for the fiasco.

130,000!?

That's almost a flight ticket home.

No thanks...TV for me. Best seat in the house.

Flee the country while the Olimpics are on, I'm not going to pay 1¥ to see really dedicated people try their best in 40+degrees heat, 100% humidity. Years of planning and egos expert panels and an absolute disaster. That's governance in Japan.

threehundred thousand yen? I agree with BackPackingNepal, you can have a very nice holiday for that money. Btw I assume the 2000 yen tickets will give you a seat right outside the stadium so you can enjoy the cheers coming from inside.

@backpackingnepal,

Great, we actually prefer big spenders to come, mass tourism is a plague.

so everyone’s happy.

130,000!?

. unbelievable isn't it?!

That's almost a flight ticket home.

EXACTLY!

No thanks...TV for me. Best seat in the house.

exactly! well said.

Flee the country while the Olimpics are on,

that's my intention! if I can get the time off work.

I'm sure they'll have some cool stuff at the opening ceremony, but if you watch at home, you can mute it or turn it off when AKB come on. Best seat in the house indeed.

I wouldn't mind going to some of the events, because lets face it, some of them will feature all-time greats in their sports but will not be shown at all if they clash with any event, however minor, with a Japanese medal hopeful. Some will not be shown because a Japanese won a medal the previous day.

Pay through the nose for the privilege of being crushed on public transport to get to venues and sit or stand in sweltering summer temperatures? No thanks - I will NOT be anywhere near Tokyo when this corrupt farce kicks off.

Yikes

Since there's never been a single Olympic games which ever broke even, perhaps a better business model would be to have all participating countries finance the Olympics. There are ways to scale the financial burden to each country depending on host country, and team size of participating teams. Would make it way more likely to even everything out at the end of the games.

Since there's never been a single Olympic games which ever broke even

The 1984 LA Olympics turned a profit

"In 1984, Los Angeles actually made money hosting the Olympics"

https://www.marketplace.org/2016/08/05/world/1984-when-los-angeles-actually-made-money-hosting-olympics