Please follow the below measures to help prevent the COVID-19 spread. Your understanding and cooperation are much appreciated.

⁃ We ask you not to come to the venue if you seem to have symptoms such as a fever, cough, sneezing, sore throat, or simply not feeling well.

⁃ Wear a face mask to cover your nose and mouth. Please show consideration for fellow audience members.

⁃ Strictly follow the precautions against infectious diseases such as the cough etiquette and washing and disinfecting your hands frequently.

⁃ Our staff members conduct temperature screening with thermal imaging cameras for all those who are entering the venue. If you have a fever of 37.5°C/99.5°F or higher, you are not allowed to enter the venue.

⁃ No beverage is sold in the Recital Hall area.

⁃ Show your ticket to the usher. Then tear off the stub by yourself and put it in the box.

⁃ We do not hand out program leaflets and such printed materials. Please pick them up by yourself from specific areas.

⁃ The cloakroom is closed except for large luggage.

⁃ We do not accept flowers and gifts for the artists. Nor can you give them directly to the artists.

⁃ Allow enough time to get into the venue.

SOYU RAKU-RAKU LIVE Vol.52—The Collaboration of Music and Rakugo— scheduled for Thursday, April 30, 2020 has been rescheduled for Thursday, March 11, 2021 to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 infections.

[Reschedule of the performance]

Performance and Original Schedule

SOYU RAKU-RAKU LIVE Vol.52—The Collaboration of Music and Rakugo—

Thursday, April 30, 2020 11:00 at Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Recital Hall

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Rescheduled Date

Thursday, March 11, 2021 11:00 at Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Recital Hall

* Your purchased tickets are valid for the rescheduled performance. Please retain your tickets safely until the day of the event.

* Please note that your tickets cannot be changed to other performances.

Rakugo (Traditional Japanese comedic storytelling): KATSURA Konan

Percussion: KOBAYASHI Yojiro

Cello: MUKAI Wataru

Piano and composition: ISHIZAKA Yoshihiko

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First Part: Mini Concert

KOBAYASHI Yojiro: Pinky Candy

ISHIZAKA Yoshihiko: Improvisation

Mark SUMMER: Julie-O

PIAZZOLLA: Libertango

Second Part: The Collaboration of Music and Rakugo “The Snow in Hawaii”

* Performed in Japanese

[Tickets Availability (as of Mar 8, 2021)]

There are no day tickets nor additional ticket sales available.

The tickets initially sold as general admission have been changed to reserved seats. For those who have already purchased general admission tickets, we are contacting them accordingly to inform of their reserved seats.

Reserved Seats 550yen

[Day tickets]

Tickets not available.

Tue, Jan 28, 2020

Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Box Office

[For those who need to avoid visiting the venue for specific reasons, a refund is available]

If any of the following cases apply to you, we ask you not to come to the venue. Regarding the ticket refund, please follow the below steps during the designated period.

⁃ You have a sudden fever (37.5°C/99.5°F or higher), or your fever has been lasting continuously.

⁃ You seem to have a cold with symptoms such as a fever, cough, sneezing, sore throat, and fatigue.

⁃ You have problems with your health condition other than those mentioned above, or you simply do not feel well.

⁃ You have had close contact with someone with a positive PCR test result for COVID-19.

⁃ You have stayed in countries and regions, where the Japanese government’s entry ban or quarantine after landing into Japan apply, within 2 weeks prior to the date you are planning to visit the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan. Or you have had close contact with someone who applies to the case mentioned above.

Period for accepting refund requests:

Until Wednesday, March 31, 2021

(The request submission must be postmarked by the deadline.)

How to request a refund (By post only)

Please send your tickets and a sheet of paper filled out with the following information to the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Box Office.

* Used tickets are not refundable. Refunds will only be provided for tickets with a stub attached.

* If you have not collected the tickets at a 7-Eleven shop yet, please make sure to collect them by the ticket-issuing due date. The tickets are also required for those who request a refund. You cannot get the ticket issued after the due date.

Required information:

Your name (Japanese phonetics included)

Your telephone number

The total number of your purchased tickets

Your bank account information (Please leave a note if you do not have your bank account in Japan.): bank name, branch name, account holder (Japanese phonetics included), account type (checking or savings), account number

Postal Address:

Attn: Ticket Refund Team

Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Box Office

5-45 Ueno Koen, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-8716

* Please note that your tickets will not be reimbursed in case the mail is not delivered to the Box Office by misdelivery and so on.

Costs you get refunded

1. Ticket Cost

2. Service fees

* All expenses presented by the box office on purchasing tickets.

* If you have purchased with tickets for other events, only the system charge and the ticket issuing fee will be refunded.

3. Postage fee for sending back tickets (Up to 244yen)

* Please note that your tickets will not be reimbursed in case the mail is not delivered to the Box Office by misdelivery and so on.

Refund Period

You will receive a refund in your designated bank account in about three months at the latest after the box office receives your tickets.

Tokyo Bunka Kaikan operated by Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture/ Rakugo Geijutsu Kyokai