I was in Sendai for three days in early July and found myself back in Tokyo on a Tuesday afternoon with about nine hours to kill before a HND - LAX flight. While on the metro, it dawned on me to check to see if any games were happening in Tokyo and saw that the Giants were playing the Tigers at the Tokyo Dome. I headed down there, half expecting to not be able to get tickets due to the match up but despite walking up prior to the game, I was able to get in.

I posted in this thread years ago about buying tickets from JapanBall, so this was my first time buying baseball tickets in person (although I have been to see FC Tokyo and bought tickets at the box office). I would assume that some of it was due to the fact I was in Tokyo but the Giants seemed decently well equipped to handle the non-Japanese/non-so-great-at-Japanese speakers. Besides myself, there were definitely some other groups waiting in line who did not speak Japanese and everyone seemed to be able to purchase a ticket. I was told by the friendly lady at the box office that a couple of sections I was interested in were sold out and ended up about three rows down from the top along the third base line.

Good fun as always but that was my third dome in a row, sadly. Was supposed to see the Golden Eagles v. Seibu Lions but since I was afraid of a rain out, I headed up to Yamadera instead on that day.