Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Movie tickets

On Friday, which is movie night at our house, we are taking Lucinda and Arno to the movie theater at Roppongi Hills. This is quite rare for us because most American/English kids movies don't come to Tokyo at all or arrive weeks or months after we can rent it on Apple TV.

We're going to see Wall-E - six months or so after it opened in the US.

This is where it gets tricky. The easiest way to buy tickets is over the internet to choose your seats before the theater sells out, as it always does. But Toho Cinemas recently changed its website, and the explanation of which tickets (adult, child, discount, senior) are available at which prices is entirely in Japanese. I guessed at 4 tickets for 1500 yen each, which is probably the adult price; if not, we will have to sort it out on Friday night.

This is the email I received to confirm. Fortunately, I don't have to know Japanese to figure it out.

Kowal Jessica 様

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このたびはご購入いただきまして誠にありがとうございます。
Thank you very much for your purchase.

■購入番号 Confirmation Number XXXX (TEL:080-XXXX-9785)
■映画館 Theater TOHOシネマズ六本木ヒルズ TOHOCINEMAS ROPPONGI HILLS 
■上映日 Date 2008/12/5 ■時間 Time 18:40~
■合計金額 Total Price \6,000 ■座席番号 Seat Number I-24 I-25 I-26 I-27
■映画名称 Movie (字)WALL・E/ウォーリー WALLE/ENGLISH

※チケット発券時には、上記の電話番号と購入番号の入力が必要となります。
*You need the above phone number and the confirmation number
when you pick up your ticket(s) at the vit ticketing machines.

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