The Ghibli Museum is located in Mitaka, Tokyo Japan. The museum is extremley popular and getting tickets overseas is highly difficult, but we will show you ways to overcome this.

The first way to buy tickets is to visit the International site at https://www.ghibli-museum.jp/en/tickets/ . On the 10th of every month at 10am Japan Standard Time tickets are released for international buyers. For many this time is at the night or in the early morning (1 to 4 am). It is advisable prior to the release time to sign up and have your account ready. It is also adviseable to use mulitple devices. Using these devices you will enter the queue. You will receive updates to your positon in the queue but its likely be in the hundreds or thousands. Even getting into the tens of thousands at times. If you get to a point of purchase you will get your tickets and be ready to go. Remember to have mulitple dates and times you are willing to go as many slots may be already sold out. Unfortunatley even with the best of efforts many find themselves unable to purchase tickets. But is this the end? No.

If you unable to get a ticket this way, the other way is look for a buying service which purchases domestic tickets on your behalf, that will have your name on it. We recommend using https://buyticketsjp.com This service will buy the tickets and then post them to you at an international address or to your accomodation / hotel in Japan. Its a premium service and has a price but its good to get those tickets for your family. Its also recommended to pre purchase the service as it will purchase the tickets at release time and get you date and time slots you prefer.

The third option is to use ticket resell shops these are spread through out Japan. But these places generally speak only Japanese and only have the tickets they purchased from others on hand. If these tickets are available and have names other than your own on it, you may find it difficult to enter the museum.