Lawson, hands down. I've figured out how to pay my bills and work the Loppi machine (and magazine) for the most part, except that I haven't figured out how to add my name yet when I'm buying soccer or baseball tickets. Maybe before I leave I'll be able to do it. Thanks to Lawson, I was able to get tickets to the Gamba-Kawasaki match a couple of weeks back. Best game I've ever been to.
Is this thread related to soccer?! Lawson and 7-11 are OK, but I go to am/pm and Family Mart more often. I reserve tickets for matches and print them out at Family Mart.
Damn! You guys in Japan are so lucky that you could purchase tickets to the matches at your local convenience stores!! I'm jealous. Here in the states, I could only purchase soccer tickets at the fee-happy Ticketmaster (those bastards ) or by calling the FO. They need to incorporate your ticket purchase system over here in the US.
Family mart for the beer and chicken. Lawson for bread and those chips with the mexican dude on the front that ripped off pringles
and in france is worse need to go to the stadium or buy online to the official shop. in thailand is amazing i was living in a place close to rajamangala stadium u have 4 7eleven and 4 or 5 family mart on the same street is the war
Hey, this is one of the wonderful things about the konbini in Japan (and what you say about Ticketmaster is the reason we SJ fans call it TicketBastard). You can do a lot more than purchase tickets; you can pay bills, buy a very decent meal, and even use the john. Try that in the U.S. 7-11 (all the rest are good, however) was a lifesaver yesterday when I was out on one of my long walks. Oh, BTW, your poll forgot Sunkus, also a favorite.
circle k and sunkus are the same over here........didn't see hotspar 7-11 is taking over the entire country now
I may be wrong about this, but I was under the impression that all konbini's have ticket sales (they're pretty competitive). BTW, those tickets are not just for soccer matches, you can buy tickets for just about any performance or event imagineable (as long as it's in Japan! )
You can reserve tickets for concerts, sports, theaters, and kabuki etc. at ticket centers like Ticket Pia, CN Play Guide, Entertainment Plus (e+), and Lawson Tickets. These companies do business with conveninence stores. Ticket Pia -- Family Mart, Circle K-Sunkus, 7-11 CN Play Guide -- am/pm, View Plaza (travel agency of JR East) Lawson Tickets -- Loppi (Lawson Online Shopping) machines e+ -- online ticketing only Lawson and Familiy Mart sell tickets for highway buses, trains, airplanes, and other modes of transportation. This is convenient!
here's the top 10 convenience stores of year 2004 by sales. rank store sales (in million) head office 1. 7-eleven ￥2440853 (21.6 billion us dollar) tokyo 2. lawson ￥1329077 tokyo 3. family mart ￥998491 tokyo 4. circle k (circle k sunkus) ￥503889 tokyo 5. sunkus (circle k sunkus) ￥403517 tokyo 6. daily yamazaki ￥25703900 chiba 7 mini stop ￥252708 chiba 8 am/pm ￥165100 tokyo 9 seico mart ￥151594 hokkaido 10 poplar ￥125475 hiroshima 7 eleven takes the lead in yamagata, miyagi, fukushima, niigata, tochigi, ibaraki, gunma, saitama, chiba, tokyo, kanagawa, yamanashi, shizuoka, shiga, okayama, hiroshima, yamaguchi, fukuoka, saga, kumamoto, and miyazaki prefectures lawson tops in aomori, iwate, akita, toyama, nara, kyoto, osaka, wakayama, hyogo, tottori, tokushima, kagawa, kochi, ehime, and oita family mart dominates in fukui, nagasaki, kagoshima, and okinawa the others circle k: gifu, mie, aichi, iand shikawa poplar: shimane seico mart: hokkaido top 10 preferctures with the number of convenies 1 tokyo 6076 (278 stores in 100km square) 2 kanagawa 3240 (134/100km^2) 3 osaka 2959 (156/100km^2) 4 aichi 2760 5 hokkaido 2558 6 saitama 2311 7 chiba 2172 8 fukuoka 1566 9 hyogo 1457 10 shizuoka 1310 . . 46 shimane 141 (2.1/100km^2) 47 tottori 129 (3.7/100km^2)
You should never buy from Ticketbastard, they have charged me prices that are criminal. That being said - I like Popura because everyone in Hiroshima goes to popura, especially cause they put fresh rice into your bento. I do love Lawson for the soccer and concert tickets, but I have to say Family Mart because there was one across the street from my school, and I snuck over there so many times to eat curry pan, nikuman, koroke, and what not.