Attending AKB48 handshakes: how-to (work in progress)

So - got my limited Shoot Sign editions in the mail and now I'm in possession of some event tickets. Just to confirm I've understood automatic translations correctly:

1) Go to handshake location (In this case Hiroshima Sun Plaza)
2) Exchange ticket at a counter and choose a member/lane
3) Go shake hands and be happy for a few fleeting seconds
4) Repeat steps 2-3 until out of tickets

Anything else I need/should be prepared for?

 

Sweet, thanks for the info! =)

 

Is there any way I can pay for HS tickets through convenient stores ? I am living in Japan and 48G concert tickets can be paid that way but I am not sure about HS.

 

Yep! Handshake tickets can be paid the same way as the concert tickets. After the last round of lotteries for handshakes on the chara-ani site, you'll get an email from them asking you to select your payment option on the site: credit card, COD, or convenient store payment.

Resale lotteries only do COD payment however.

 

So Mu-mo has some sort of automatic trigger for tenso addresses that redirect to overseas shop. How to circumvent and try to get SKE tickets?

 

They have? Than this is new, I had no problem getting my SKE-CDs in March? I think

 

I just tried to take part on handshake lottery using tenso address. Got directed to overseas shop. Of course it might have been my western name or live.com email address too?

 

Hmm, when do you get redirected? I just tried it and until the confirmation-screen I had no difficulties at all (I'm using a Romaji-Name, my gmail-address and the Tenso-Address). Do you access the site from here: http://shop.mu-mo.net/st/special/sk...&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=ske48_21stsg ?

 

That exactly. I was able to choose everything and once I pressed final confirmation I got the error message.

 

Ah, I see. I can't really try that because I don't want to end up winning... Maybe they changed it for this single, as I mentioned I didn't have any troubles with the Album-Events

 

エラー
ONDI0009：海外へのお届けは、こちらからご購入ください。

Edit: tried with non-tenso address, worked like a charm.

 

tried to change my residence in the new ticket center from japan to overseas and i get this message
"Changing the place of residence (Japan/Overseas) will not be able to fix for 6 months.
Is it OK?"
:/ guess i have to create a new ID

 

I deleted my old ID and created a new one.

 

did you use the same email address??

 

No. Used one with real name this time.

 

I changed my address to the overseas one, unfortunately afterwards I couldn't see any opening applications available on the main page. I assume foreign fans are not eligible to apply for other categories at the moment.
Hopefully, they will fix this soon because it will be totally unfair if the foreign fans could only apply for the overseas application which is not available every time.

 

Hi, I applied for a number of HS tickets for SKE's next single, but I wanted to cancel one of them. How do I do that ? The application period for that round has ended and lottery results are out already.

Also asking for future references, how do I cancel a ticket when application for that round hasn't ended yet ?

 

^ thanks a lot

Also, I notice that mu-mo doesn't say anything about resale rounds. Are they gonna announce it later, if they are gonna do it at all ? I'd see AKB do resale and re-resale rounds but SKE is quite tacky with their way of doing things ...