How do I get Asian Games 2026 tickets?

What you actually need before you can buy

A free Supporter ID, sometimes written as an Ouen-ID. It has been open for registration since 20 October 2025, it costs nothing, and it is the account the official ticket site checks at checkout. It is also the address original paper tickets get posted to, so register it with the address you want them sent to.

If you buy through one of the authorised play guides instead (Ticket Pia, TBS Tickets or the CBC Ticket Center), you register a free membership with that agency rather than a Supporter ID. Which sports each agency carries varies, and their sale end times are not identical to the official site's, so the official site is the one to check first.

How the sale works, phase by phase

The early rounds are done. Advance sales opened on 26 February 2026 with priority for residents of the host regions (Aichi, Gifu, Mie, Shizuoka, Tokyo and Osaka), a second priority round opened on 12 March 2026 with the regional restriction dropped, and general sale followed on 30 June 2026. Only that last one is still running.

General sale has no eligibility rules at all beyond the account: no residency test, no membership tier, no application. Each session's listing simply closes when that session takes place.

Ticket types and who pays less

Seats are banded AA, A, B, C and D, with the bands used varying by sport and venue. Beyond the general ticket there are three discounted types, all set at the lowest seat category for their sport:

• Child tickets, for ages 3 to 14 on the day of the session. There is a pairing rule worth reading before you book: when a child watches with someone 15 or older, the adult has to buy a general ticket in that same lowest category. Children under 3 are free if they sit on a lap, and need a ticket only if they take a seat of their own.
• Tickets for persons with disabilities, for holders of a valid disability certificate plus a companion. Certificates are checked at the gate and the companion has to enter and leave with the certificate holder.
• Wheelchair tickets, which admit a wheelchair user and one companion. These are the tickets to buy if you use a wheelchair; the disability tickets above are not wheelchair-accessible seats.

For any of these, a seat category above the lowest costs the standard general price.

Getting the ticket itself

E-tickets, shown on a phone screen or printed from a PDF, run for the whole sale period and are available from your order history. Commemorative original-design paper tickets were an advance-sales-only option and are posted to the address on your Supporter ID. Play-guide purchases issue plain paper tickets at convenience store counters, without the commemorative design.

One recent change to note if you are following older instructions: convenience store payment was discontinued on the official ticket site on 1 September 2026, so plan on paying by card there.

If a session shows as unavailable

The official site stopped saying "Sold Out" on 14 July 2026 and now says "Currently Unavailable" instead, which is a more honest label than it first looks. Inventory has come back more than once: the organisers announced additional ticket sales for selected sessions on 4 August and again on 18 August 2026, and the official ticket resale service has been live since 4 August, carrying tickets returned by fans who cannot attend. A handful of competitions are excluded from that resale service.

Three more routes have opened close to the Games, all announced in the last three weeks: same-day ticket sales, in-person ticket sales locations including an Aichi-Nagoya 2026 City Ticket Office, and the "Asian Q Ticket" and "Asian Para Q Ticket" services alongside discounted "After 4 Tickets" for late-afternoon entry. If a session you want reads as unavailable online, those are worth checking before giving up on it.

The one rule that voids a ticket

The official site's warning is short and absolute: tickets purchased through unofficial channels will not be accepted for entry. There is no appeal and no refund on the far side of that. The official ticket site, the three named play guides, and the official resale service are the whole list of safe routes.

Group bookings exist for 20 or more tickets, but only for companies and organisations with an office and a bank account in Japan, paid in advance by invoice, so they are not a workaround for a group of visiting fans.

What this means if you are used to ballots

The Asian Games are the counter-example to almost everything the ballot world teaches. There is no free draw to enter, no results day, no "silence is not a rejection" period. The free official step is the Supporter ID, and after that the advantage goes to whoever checks the listings most often, particularly for the sports that sold out early. If you would rather chase events that genuinely run free draws, our guide to how ticket ballots work covers the ones that do, and the free calendar carries every window we track.