I was stressed about not getting the day we wanted as we will have a quick turn around. Despite the helpful posts about booking, there were still a few unknowns.
It’s worth checking out what the ticket/date selection pages look like before the half hour to opening queue is made available. It’s not the easiest to parse.
I was worried that I would be on the wrong page within the form when the queue opened up, but it seems it doesn’t matter which page of the form you are on,it will all reset to take you to a placeholder with a countdown.
Once you’re automatically taken to the website from the placeholder page, it will show you where you are in the queue. You have ten minutes to complete the transaction, so I was glad I had all the details of passport, Japan address, and different types of cards to purchase. My bank blocked my first two cards, despite letting them know I was going to make the purchase today. Third card was an online only account and that worked with no problems.
I had several devices open ranging from 2400 ish to 12000 ish place. They weren’t placed in order of logon.
Hope this helps anyone else anxious about booking
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