Online Says Sold Out. A Window at the Entrance Is Still Selling Tickets for Today.

Why this phrase

A ticket window outside a museum, an aquarium or the sumo hall on the morning of. One takeaway: the word 当日券, the same-day ticket sold at the door, as against 前売券, the advance ticket. Kofuku's angle is that sold out online is usually a booking-platform fact, not a building fact. Accuracy guardrails from the Japanese verifier: 当日券 is sold at the 当日券売り場 or the ticket window, NOT at the entrance, so do not send people to the wrong counter. Do NOT say you can always just walk up: the Kokugikan holds back roughly 400 second-floor 当日自由席 that need a five or six in the morning queue, and many 特別展 and teamLab-class venues are now 日時指定予約制 with no 当日券 at all. The honest framing is check for a 当日券 window and get there early, not it is always there.