I’m back home and there’s a huge demand for tickets to the Dodgers in Tokyo.
want? The lowest priced tickets available on StubHub as of Wednesday afternoon: next week’s series opener is $1,855. In both cases, it costs $1,352 for the second and final games. By the time you read this, those tickets may not be available.
If you live in Japan, we provided shortcuts. You will pay $500 to join the new fan club and secure the right to buy two tickets for one of the games.
The day they signed Otani, the Dodgers declared Dodger Blue their intentions to portray Japan. On the day they signed, they shared plans for the Dodgers Fan Club in Japan.
“It’s already done by the Premier League and European soccer clubs, and it’s accumulating international fans,” Dodgers president Stan Kasten said. “We’re starting it and doing a pilot program to see how it’s done.”
For now, we offer four levels of membership. At around $500 per person, the top-level, which sold out with 1,200 members this year, offered the opportunity to purchase two tickets “on a first come, first served” for the Tokyo Series game.
Also, top-level members got what they were billed as “super rare collectors’ items.” This is a ticket with Dodger Stadium stains from the National League Western Championship game against the San Diego Padres. The game includes a double with countryman Matsudo.
Other membership levels cost around $120, $100 and $45 per year. Of the four membership levels, the top three include discounts on Dodgers Fan Events in Japan, in addition to Ohtani Bobblehead Dolls and other promotional items. (Over $100 on eBay. On Wednesday’s Dodgers website, the cheapest ticket for the first Otani Bobblehead Night of the season was $132.)
All fan club membership levels include tickets and product discounts for Dodger Stadium.
The Dodgers are promoting more international sales on StubHub than any other major league team, the company said. The Dodgers tickets this year were purchased by fans from 29 countries outside the US and Canada, but mostly by Japanese fans.
Over the past five years, Otani products have accounted for 57% of total fanatic sales of Japan’s major league baseball products, fanatics said. A year after the Dodgers signed Otani, the company said sales of Dodgers products in Japan have jumped to “more than 2,000%.”
Sasaki’s agent Joel Wolf visited several stadiums in Japan along with his home team’s product team store and a kiosk for Dodgers product.
In the case of the Tokyo series, in Japan. The World Series Championship Trophy is on display, with over 200 bobbleheads as well. The exhibition area is dedicated to Otani.
“We’ve only done this in Japan for the first time,” Dodgers Vice President Michael Spetsner told the Japan Times.
The Dodgers’ Japanese fan club is not open to fans outside of Japan. The Dodgers currently do not have a fan club for American fans.
