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<\/p>\nThe National Treasure Exhibition at the Tokyo National Museum (‘Tōhaku’) is said to be the centrepiece of the art exhibitions to be held in Japan in 2022.<\/p>\n
The Tōhaku is the oldest museum in Japan and celebrates its 150th anniversary this year.<\/p>\n
The National Treasures Exhibition is an unprecedented exhibition that will mark this memorable year by showcasing all 89 national treasures in the museum’s collection.<\/p>\n
The exhibition is divided into four periods, from Tuesday 18 October to Sunday 11 December, and ticket sales have been introduced on an advance booking basis.<\/p>\n
The schedule of advance booking for each session will be sequential, as follows.<\/p>\n
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Reservations for this third period, from Tuesday 15 November to Sunday 27 November, started at 10am on Tuesday 1 November, and I was planning to visit the exhibition during this period, so I was on my PC from morning.<\/p>\n
This is because, according to one source, I had heard of people who had not been able to get a ticket in the first or second period, and I thought that there might be a possibility that the competition might be so strong that I might not be able to get the time slot I wanted.<\/p>\n
However, inwardly, I was high on the idea that there would never be that much of a struggle for art exhibition ticket reservations, no matter what the cost.<\/p>\n
However, inwardly, I underestimated that in any case, there would not be that much of a struggle to book tickets for an art exhibition.<\/p>\n
However, by 10.00 am, the Tōhaku website stopped working altogether.<\/p>\n
Even if the website was working, the page display was unstable, with the layout appearing as if it was out of order and pages not displaying, resulting in a heavy load on the server due to the excessive concentration of accesses to the website.<\/p>\n
After some minutes, I finally reached the ticket purchase page, and when I clicked on the date and time of my first choice, it now said “Accessing… Waiting time: 08 minutes”!<\/p>\n
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Moreover, at the end of the message was a frightening statement: ‘Waiting for this time does not guarantee that you will get a ticket…’<\/p>\n
Then, eight minutes later, I really couldn’t buy it. While we were waiting for eight minutes, our first choice of ticket was sold out! Oh! My God!!<\/p>\n
To be honest, I felt a sense of urgency and immediately clicked on the second choice of date and time, but this time I had to wait 20 minutes!!! (Oops!!)<\/p>\n
I was worried that if I waited for 20 minutes and the ticket was sold out again, the tickets for the other dates would also be sold out during this time loss, so I decided to wait after clicking on several candidates at the same time as insurance.<\/p>\n
The result was a relief, as I managed to buy a ticket for my second choice of date and time.<\/p>\n
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After that, I watched the ticket sales for a while, and by noon that day about 70% of the tickets had been sold, and by evening they were almost completely sold out, which made me realise just how popular the National Treasure Exhibition is.<\/p>\n
The fourth and final period will be available for booking from 10am on Tuesday 15 November, so if you missed out on the 1st~3rd period, this will be your last chance, so we recommend you get your head in the game and buy as soon as possible.<\/p>\n
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