SAPPORO, Nov 25 (News On Japan) –
Arashi will maintain the opening live shows of its closing nationwide dome tour in Sapporo in March 2026, sending lodge bookings hovering throughout town and elevating issues that the spike in lodging costs will have an effect on college entrance examinees arriving for essential exams on March twelfth.
The group, which can finish its actions in May 2026, introduced tour dates that start on March thirteenth in Sapporo earlier than transferring on to 4 different main domes nationwide. Excitement is already constructing at retailers related to Arashi, together with a patisserie in Sapporo’s Minami Ward the place muffins mentioned to have been eaten by the members throughout a live performance go to seven years in the past turned a success amongst followers. The owner-patissier, Tsutomu Nakamoto, mentioned, “On the morning after the concert, several taxis pulled up right at opening time and the first customer who walked in said, ‘This is the cake.’ I only realized then when fans told me, ‘The cakes given to Arashi were from this shop.’” Nakamoto added that he hopes to recreate the muffins from seven years in the past despite the fact that some gadgets have modified in form, saying he desires to arrange totally so the store can deal with giant crowds.
Meanwhile, lodges throughout Sapporo are already at full capability. A enterprise lodge within the Susukino leisure district, with roughly 400 rooms, exhibits no availability from March twelfth to fifteenth, the interval surrounding the live performance dates. Director Mikio Hayashi mentioned different lodges within the group throughout the metropolis additionally seem to don’t have any vacancies. Hotel operators say reservations poured in instantly after the tour schedule was introduced on November twenty second.
At one other lodge in Nishi Ward with 150 rooms, single rooms priced at 7,800 yen on March tenth and eleventh have jumped to as excessive as 52,000 yen from March thirteenth, in keeping with Hayashi.
The mixture of sold-out rooms and hovering costs is more likely to affect college entrance examinees. Arashi’s live shows will run from March thirteenth to fifteenth, however on March twelfth—simply someday earlier than—the latter-stage entrance exams for Hokkaido University and different establishments are scheduled. Preparatory college officers say round 2,000 college students sometimes sit for Hokkaido University’s later-stage exams annually, with many touring from outdoors Hokkaido. Takeshi Kawasaki, principal of Yoyogi Seminar Sapporo School, mentioned college students coming from distant areas after finishing the unified exams could face lodging prices increased than regular and that will probably be troublesome for examinees to seek out countermeasures at this level.
With heavy snowfall and transport disruptions widespread through the examination season, issues are rising over how far the ripple results will unfold.
Source: 北海道ニュースUHB