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ATHLETICS: Tokyo 2025 World Championships tickets now on sale, from $16 up to $320 per session, in a special sale to 23 January!

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≡ TOKYO 2025 ≡

The beautiful National Stadium in Tokyo, completed in 2019, hosted the Olympic Games in 2021, but without spectators. That is expected to be cured at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, coming 13-21 September, and tickets are now on sale during an early offer through 23 January, in five main categories (simplified below):

Premium 1: Finish line area
Premium 2: Home straight start area, past the finish line
Category A: lower level: first turn-backstraight-far turn
Category B: middle level: first turn-backstraight-far turn
Category C: upper level: first turn-backstraight-far turn

Now the ticket prices, for which there are three different levels:

● Morning sessions
● Evening sessions on weekdays
● Evening sessions on weekends and a holiday (Respect for the Aged Day on 15 September)

It’s not as confusing as it sounds, but here are the prices (U.S. conversions rounded to the nearest dollar):

Morning sessions:
(13-14-15-20-21 September)
● ¥ 15,000 for Premium 1 ($96 U.S.)
● ¥ 10,000 for Premium 2 ($64)
● ¥ 7,000 for Category A ($45)
● ¥ 4,000 for Category B ($26)
● ¥ 2,500 for Category C ($16)

Evening sessions/weekdays:
(16-17-18-19 September)
● ¥ 30,000 for Premium 1 ($192)
● ¥ 22,000 for Premium 2 ($141)
● ¥ 14,000 for Category A ($90)
● ¥ 7,000 for Category B ($45)
● ¥ 4,000 for Category C ($26)

Evening sessions/weekends and holiday:
(13-14-15-20-21 September)
● ¥ 50,000 for Premium 1 ($320)
● ¥ 35,000 for Premium 2 ($224)
● ¥ 20,000 for Category A ($128)
● ¥ 8,000 for Category B ($51)
● ¥ 5,000 for Category C ($32)

Each ticket is also charged with a ¥550 fee ($3.52 U.S.) for handling.

There’s also a promotional Tokyo 2025 ticket for ¥2,025 or $12.96, available for all sessions in Category C up to 2,025 tickets per session, in the 68,000-seat venue.

These prices are higher than the 2023 Budapest Worlds, where tickets went for $7 U.S. for all morning sessions and $44-33-21-16 for categories 1-4 on weekdays and $54-42-30-21 on weekends.

But the Tokyo 2025 pricing is pretty good compared to the Eugene 2022 Worlds – in a much smaller stadium – where morning sessions went for $25-95, and evening sessions cost from $70-250 depending on the day and location.

Tickets are shown to be available for all sessions, although a “Limited” banner has already been attached to the second-day evening session, featuring the men’s and women’s 100 m final!

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