Touken Ranbu - ICE BLADE - Opens General Ticket Sales
Touken Ranbu’s first ice show has entered its last ticket phase: the official site began general sales and ticket resale on August 30, with the Tokyo performances set for October 3 and 4, 2026.
What Was Announced
On August 30, 2026, the official Touken Ranbu - ICE BLADE - website announced that general ticket sales had opened at noon Japan Standard Time. The same update also made annotated-view tickets available and opened the first ticket-resale window. The show will be performed on October 3 and 4 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium First Gymnasium in Tokyo.
The production is billed as the first ice show for Touken Ranbu, the multimedia franchise based on the game Touken Ranbu ONLINE. Its format joins figure skating with live voice performance: skaters portray eight Sword Warriors while voice actors perform their characters’ lines. The official cast page lists Takahito Mura as Mikazuki Munechika, Keiji Tanaka as Heshikiri Hasebe, and Kaori Sakamoto as the original Ice Spirit. The program also features Kodo, the taiko performing group.
This is a scripted show rather than a simple exhibition skate. The official story follows a citadel charged with watching over “false books,” which can distort and consume correct history. A five-headed dragon scatters the five elemental spirits into a false history, and an Ice Spirit awakens as Mikazuki Munechika and the other Sword Warriors begin a new battle. The official site says the same story will be presented at every performance.
Why It Matters
ICE BLADE is a particularly clear example of how Touken Ranbu continues to expand through different performance languages. The franchise has already been adapted into stage plays, musicals, animation, games, and other live projects. This production moves the characters onto ice while keeping the spoken drama central, so the skaters’ physical movement and the voice cast’s characterization are designed to work together rather than operate as separate attractions.
The casting makes that division important for fans choosing a performance. All skaters are scheduled to appear at both shows, but the voice-cast lineup changes by day. Tomoaki Maeno and Kengo Takanashi are listed for October 3, while Toshiki Masuda and Mitsuhiro Ichiki are listed for October 4. Soma Saito’s Tsurumaru Kuninaga performance is recorded for both dates. When a voice actor is not present, the show uses recorded audio, including for singing sections.
That structure means the two dates share the same story but are not identical from a fan-planning perspective. A viewer deciding between October 3 and October 4 should compare the voice-cast schedule with the characters they most want to hear, while remembering that the skating cast remains the same. The official information does not describe either date as a different chapter or alternate storyline.
Context for International Fans
The event is scheduled for Tokyo only, and the official pages reviewed for this report list domestic ticket instructions through Lawson Ticket. They do not list an international seller, an overseas livestream, or an English-language ticket workflow. Overseas fans may be able to investigate Lawson Ticket’s account and payment requirements, but international access is not confirmed by the official announcement. Fans should verify eligibility directly before making travel plans.
The standard reserved ticket is 19,000 yen including tax. The newly available annotated-view ticket is 12,000 yen. The site warns that an annotated seat should still provide a view of the skating rink, but the LED video effects may be difficult or impossible to see and the sound may be harder to hear. The arena-guarantee option costs an additional 4,000 yen, but its application period has ended.
Every ticket is a Lawson electronic ticket for smartphones; there is no paper-ticket issue. The purchaser must keep one ticket in their own app and must attend for companions to enter on distributed tickets. That rule is especially important for international groups traveling together. The official page also says that two-year-olds and younger cannot enter, while guests aged three and older need a ticket.
For time-zone planning, the October 3 performance date begins in Japan on JST, which is nine hours ahead of UTC. The official pages do not publish performance start times in the ticket announcement, so international fans should not convert an assumed show time. The practical confirmed milestones are the venue, the two dates, the ticket conditions, and the electronic-ticket schedule described below.
What Happens Next
The first resale period runs from August 30 at noon through September 6 at 11:59 p.m. JST, with the result and electronic-ticket display beginning September 11 at 3 p.m. JST. A second period runs September 7–13, with ticket display from September 18. The third runs September 14–23, with display from September 29. The fourth runs September 24–28 and covers reserved tickets only, with display from October 1. Annotated-view tickets are excluded from resale.
Those windows are the next concrete dates for fans who missed an earlier lottery or whose plans changed. The next official checks should be the Lawson Ticket application page, the resale conditions, the electronic-ticket release timing, and the final performance-day guidance on the ICE BLADE website. The organizers have not confirmed an overseas stream or a separate international ticket route in the sources cited here; any such access should be treated as unconfirmed until an official update appears.
Information was checked on August 31, 2026, at 1:30 AM JST.
Sources
- Official August 30 announcement: confirms general sales, annotated-view tickets, and the first resale notice.
- Official ticket page: lists prices, smartphone-ticket rules, resale windows, and display dates.
- Official ICE BLADE site: provides the Tokyo schedule, story, cast, and show format.
- NITRO PLUS announcement: identifies the production as Touken Ranbu ONLINE’s first ice show and records its original cast and ticket plan.
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