Important Notices
- Comiket is a massive and very crowded event with approx. 200,000 participants per day. Please be well prepared.
- Please agree on a meeting place and time with your group in case you get lost. Don't expect your Wi-Fi or phone to work.
- Pay close attention to your valuables and passports. Beware of pickpockets.
- Do not wait outside over night. You can only come after the first train.
- For cosplay, you must use the changing room at Tokyo Big Sight. Do not come or go home in cosplay.
- Please always ask before taking photos of individual people like cosplayers.
- We may conduct luggage checks. Please follow instruction of staff and security.
- We speak English at the International Desk. Come visit us if you need any help.
Please note that
you need to buy and wear an "Admission Wristband" to enter Comic Market 97, to cover the increased costs due to changes to the venue. A different color wristband is needed for each separate day. This is a big change from past Comikets.
- The paper catalog includes wristbands for all 4 days (at bookstores: 2,750 Yen; at Comiket: 2,200 Yen)
- Wristbands for individual days are sold separately (at selected bookstores: 550 Yen/day; at Comiket: 1,000 Yen/day)
- We encourage you to buy the wristbands beforehand, as the lines to buy them at Comiket might be long
- Wristbands are available from July 13 at selected Animate, Toranoana and Melonbooks shops and their online store. We are ont aware of any that sell directly overseas
- A different color is needed each different day
- Please wear the wristband around your wrist when entering Comiket. We will check at the entrance
- The same wristband can be used at South/West Halls (Dojinshi Area) and the Aomi Exhibition Halls (Corporate Area)
- Depending on the liness outside and the overall density inside, entry might become free for all at later hours. But, it could be that entry without a wristband is not possible the whole day
- The DVD and online catalogs do not include wristbands
We prided ourselves of not charging any entry fees for visiting participants. But, due to restrictions to the Tokyo Big Sight related to the Tokyo Olympics 2020, we must do Comic Market at a much smaller space over 4 days. This unfortunately means much increased costs, and less space available for advertisement or Corporate Area, both important sources of income. Still, it is not realistic to further increase fees for amateur circles or corporations. So we have to ask visiting participants to share the burden. Additionally, the wristband will also function as a tool to prevent overcrowding at the much smaller venue.
We are not making this decision lightly, as it does not fit to our traditional policy to provide an open "space", that is a market. But we hope your understanding.