A Guide to Tokyo 2020 Olympics Ticket Prices

Buying tickets for the Olympics can be a little overwhelming. Below, you discover ticket prices for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics by event. Be aware that when looking at ticket prices online, you may see a couple of different numbers:

• Face value: The price that the ticket is being sold for in Japan. This number is sometimes displayed in yen or the U.S. dollar equivalent.
• Ticket price: Authorized Ticket Resellers (ATRs) are allowed to increase the price by up to 20 percent of the face value. This means that if the face value of the ticket is $106.73, ATRs can add up to $21.35 to the price of the ticket, and you can bet ATRs increase it the full 20 percent, meaning the actual price you would pay for the ticket in the United States would be $128.08.

The tables below show the different prices for tickets for each Olympic event. The price displayed is the total amount you would pay for the ticket (including the price increase from the ATR).

Tokyo 2020 Olympic opening and closing ceremonies

The opening and closing ceremonies are likely some of the biggest events of the Olympics, and you can see that reflected in the prices. They’ve also been some of the hardest events to get tickets for. Both ceremonies will be held in the Olympic Stadium, which has a seating capacity of 68,000.

Aquatics

The sport of aquatics consists of five different disciplines: artistic swimming, diving, marathon swimming, swimming, and water polo. The swimming, artistic swimming, and diving events will be held at the Tokyo Aquatics Center, which has a seating capacity of 15,000. Marathon swimming will be held at Odaiba Marine Park, which has a seating capacity of 5,500. Water polo will be at the Tatsumi Water Polo Centre, which has a seating capacity of 4,700. Swimming Water Polo

Archery

Archery has a total five different types of events: women’s team, men’s team, mixed team, women’s individual, and men’s individual. All these events will be held at Yumenoshima Park Archery Field, which has a total seating capacity of 5,600.

Athletics

Athletics has three main disciplines: marathon, race walk, and track and field. However, tickets to the race walk are not for sale, so only the marathon and track-and-field events will have tickets available for purchase. The track and field events will be held at the Olympic Stadium, which has a seating capacity of 68,000. The marathon event was also originally scheduled to be held at the Olympic Stadium but was moved to Sapporo Odori Park.

Unlike other sports, whose tickets prices are divided into stages of the competition (preliminaries versus finals), track-and-field events are divided into five different categories: morning preliminary, morning final 1, morning final 2, evening final 1, and evening final 2. This was done to allow different pricing levels based on the popularity of some of the events being held.

Badminton

Like archery, badminton has five different types of events: women’s doubles, men’s doubles, mixed doubles, women’s singles, and men’s singles. All badminton events will be held at Musashino Forest Sport Plaza, which has a seating capacity of 7,200.

Baseball and softball

The baseball events and softball events will be held at two different stadiums: Fukushima Azuma Baseball Stadium and Yokohama Baseball Stadium. Given that Yokohama Baseball Stadium has a seating capacity of 35,000, while Fukushima Azuma Baseball Stadium only has a seating capacity of 14,300, ticket availability may depend on which stadium the event is being held at.

Basketball

Basketball is actually split into two disciplines: basketball (the traditional basketball you see on TV; and 3x3 basketball. The regular basketball games will be held at Saitama Super Arena (with a seating capacity of 21,000), while the 3x3 basketball events will be 3x3 Basketball

Boxing

The schedule for boxing was released significantly later than the rest of the event schedule due to some conflicts with the International Boxing Association (AIBA), which was considered the “governing body” of the sport. After AIBA was suspended by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), a taskforce was put in place and the event schedule was finalized in July 2019.

Boxing events will be held at the Kokugikan Arena, which has a seating capacity of 7,300. Like many combat sports, competitions are divided by weight class, ranging from Fly (the lightest weight class) to Super Heavy for the men, and Fly to Middle for the women.

Canoe

Canoeing contains two different disciplines: slalom and sprint. The slalom discipline includes both the canoe slalom and kayak slalom events, which will be held at the Kasai Canoe Slalom Centre (with a seating capacity of 7,500). The sprint discipline includes various events, including single kayaks, double kayaks, single canoe, and double canoe, covering anywhere from 200 meters to 1,000 meters in distance. These events will be held at the Sea Forest Waterway (with a seating capacity of 12,800).

Cycling

Cycling contains a total of five different disciplines. The two BMX disciplines — freestyle and racing — will be held at the Ariake Urban Sports Park. During the BMX racing events, the venues will have a seating capacity of 5,000, but during the BMX freestyle events it will have a seating capacity of 6,600.

The track and mountain bike disciplines will be held in Izu. The Izu Velodrome, which will be used for the track event has a seating capacity of 3,600, while the Izu MTB Course for the mountain bike events has a seating capacity of 11,500. Fuji International Speedway serves as the finish for the road race and can seat 22,000.

Road Race

Equestrian

The equestrian sport contains three different disciplines: dressage, eventing, and jumping. The eventing cross-country event will be held at Sea Forest Cross-Country Course, which has a seating capacity of 16,000. All other equestrian events will be held at the Equestrian Park, which can seat 9,300.

Fencing

All fencing events will be held in Hall B of Makuhari Messe Hall, which has a seating capacity of 8,000. This will encompass both team and individual foil, epée, and sabre events.

Soccer

Soccer events will be held in six different venues. Which dome the event is being held in will not only affect the seating capacity (ranging from 4,800 to 72,000) and number of available tickets, but also the distance you’ll have to travel in order to attend the event. You’ll want to keep both of these factors in mind when purchasing tickets.

Golf

Both men’s and women’s golfing events, including both the preliminaries and finals, will be held at Kasumigaseki Country Club, which has a seating capacity of 25,000.

Gymnastics

Gymnastics has three different disciplines: artistic, rhythmic, and trampoline. All events, including the floor routine, parallel bars, vaulting, and more will be held at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre, which will have a seating capacity of 12,000 for all disciplines and events. Rhythmic Trampoline

Handball

Similar to other events, handball tickets are separated for men’s and women’s events, as well as the various competition stages (such as preliminaries, quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals). All events will be held at Yoyogi National Stadium, which has a seating capacity of 10,200.

Hockey

Both men’s and women’s hockey events will be held at Oi Hockey Stadium (with a seating capacity of 15,000). Ticket prices vary based on which stage of the competition you’re watching.

Judo

Judo features a total of 15 different events — 7 for men, 7 for women, and a mixed team event. Events for men and women are separated by weight class. All 15 events will be held at Nippon Budokan, which has a seating capacity of 11,000.

Karate

Karate is one of the new sports making its debut at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, and, like many martial arts events, it will be held at Nippon Budokan (with a seating capacity of 11,000). It features two main events: kumite, which is divided into various weight classes, and kata.

Modern pentathlon

The modern pentathlon is a sport that combines five different events into one. The first is a fencing ranking round, which is held at the Musashino Forest Sport Plaza (with a seating capacity of 7,200). The other four events (swimming, fencing bonus round, riding, and laser-run) will all be held at the Tokyo Stadium (with a seating capacity of 4,800).

Rowing

Rowing has two main events — sculling and sweep — both of which will be held at Sea Forest Waterway (with a seating capacity of 16,000). The sculling events are further divided into single, double, and quadruple sculls, while the sweep events are divided into the pairs, fours, and eights events.

Rugby

The women’s rugby events will return to the Olympics after making its debut in the Rio 2016 Olympics. Both men’s and women’s rugby events will be held at Tokyo Stadium, which has a seating capacity of 4,800.

Sailing

Sailing will have two new events for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics: the 49er FX Skiff for women and the Nacra 17 as a mixed events. These will be joined by traditional events such as the Laser, RS:X, 470, 49er, and Finn. All sailing events will be held Enoshima Yacht Harbour, with a seating capacity of 3,600.

Shooting

Shooting contains two main disciplines: rifle and pistol and shotgun. The rifle and pistol discipline contains a total of seven different events — some for men, some for women, and some for mixed teams. The events are separated by type of weapon shot and distance shot from. The shotgun discipline contains two different types of events — trap and skeet — which are also further divided into separate events for men, women, and mixed teams.

All shooting events are held at the Asaka Shooting Range, but seating capacity (and, therefore, available tickets) will vary based on the event. For the rifle and pistol qualifications events, the range will only have a seating capacity of 800, but for the rifle and pistol finals, it will having a seating capacity of 2,400. The shotgun events will have a seating capacity of 3,000.

Shotgun

Skateboarding

Skateboarding has two different disciplines: park and street. Events for these disciplines will be divided into men’s and women’s events, but all skateboarding events will be held at Ariake Urban Sports Park (with a seating capacity of 7,000). Street

Sport climbing

Sport climbing is making its debut at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and will be held at the Aomi Urban Sports Park (with a seating capacity of 8,400). For this sport, the different types of sport climbing have been combined into one event (instead of being separated into different events, as is typically done for other sports). This means that bouldering, lead, and speed climbing will all be part of the competition.

Surfing

Surfing is another one of the new sports making its debut at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. It will be held in the form of an Olympic Surfing Festival, which will be held at the Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach (with a seating capacity of 6,000) instead of an artificial wave pool, so the festival has been scheduled for a total of eight days (even though it can be completed in four days) to allow for optimal wave conditions.

Table tennis

Table tennis events will be held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium (with a seating capacity of 7,000) and will be divided into individual men’s and women’s events, men’s and women’s team events, and mixed team events.

Tae kwon do

Like other martial arts sports, tae kwon do events will be divided into men’s and women’s events, and further divided by weight class. All tae kwon do events will be held in Hall A of the Makuhari Messe Hall, which has a seating capacity of 10,000.

Tennis

Tennis has three different types of events: singles, doubles, and mixed doubles. All tennis events will be held at Ariake Tennis Park, which has a seating capacity of 19,900. However, note that Ariake Tennis Park has several different courts that matches will be held on, so availability of category B, C, and D tickets will depend on which court the event is being held on.

Triathlon

Although the triathlon traditionally consisted of separate men’s and women’s races, the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be introducing a new event to the sport that consists of a mixed team relay. Both the men’s and women’s events, as well as the mixed team events, will take place at the Odaiba Marine Park (with a seating capacity of 5,500).

Volleyball

Volleyball has two different disciplines: beach volleyball and indoor volleyball (which is known simply as volleyball). The beach volleyball events will be held at Shiokaze Park (with a seating capacity of 12,000), while the indoor volleyball events will be held at Ariake Arena (with a seating capacity of 15,000).

Weightlifting

The weightlifting events, which will be held at the Tokyo International Forum (with a seating capacity of 5,000) are not only divided into men’s and women’s events, but are also divided into weight class.

Wrestling

Wrestling has two different styles: Greco-Roman and freestyle. Events are divided based on these styles and are further divided by weight class. Freestyle events are also further divided into men’s and women’s events while the Greco-Roman events will be men only. All wrestling events will be held in Hall A at the Makuhari Messe Hall (with a seating capacity of 10,000).