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The original was posted on /r/japantravel by /u/Excellent-Ruin3085 on 2024-12-10 18:36:29+00:00.

Yesterday was my first time trying to buy Studio Ghibli Museum tickets. I just want to share my experience. Perhaps it will help others who are planning to go.

1. Tickets for the following month go on sale on the 10th of current month at 10am in Japan local time. For example, tickets for the month of January go on sale on December 10th at 10:00am japan time at this website
2. If you open the above website at 9:30am you will be RANDOMLY put on a virtual/online queue. My experience tells me there is no point in trying before 9:30am.

2.1 Here is my tips, I had 5 different browsers opened at different times (9:30am, 9:45am, 9:50am). And guess what?! The browser opened at 9:50am was the shortest queue (15min wait time). The browser opened at 9:30am was the longest queue (over an hour wait time). Maybe it was just a fluke but doesn’t look like “early bird gets the worm” ;-)

I only had to wait for 15 minutes in the virtual queue to buy my tickets. At that time, I could have any pick I want on the calendar. For curiosity sake, I checked another browser with a 30 min queue and there were still plenty of tickets left on any given day.

The transaction to purchase tickets was smooth. No glitches. I was surprised at how easy it was compared to what people had reported. Hope this helps.