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With just three weeks left until the end of the Osaka-Kansai Expo, most of the admission reservation slots have been filled, but it has been found that many reserved admission tickets are being sold at high prices on auction sites and similar platforms.

In some cases, tickets are being bought and sold at prices more than five times the official rate. The Expo Association is urging people not to purchase such tickets, stating, If you do not purchase through official channels, it constitutes a violation of the rules, and such tickets cannot be used.

For this Expo, you need to make a reservation for entry by specifying the date and time, but as the closing approaches, most of the reservation slots are almost fully booked.

In this situation, it was found that on some auction and flea market sites, a large number of reserved admission tickets are being sold at high prices.

When NHK checked, more than 100 tickets were being sold on some auction sites as of the afternoon of the 22nd, and there were cases where a one-day ticket for one adult, valid from 9 a.m. on the holiday of September 23rd, which has a regular price of 7,500 yen, was being auctioned off for as much as 39,000 yen—more than five times the original price.

The Expo Association prohibits the transfer or resale of admission tickets to an unspecified or large number of people in its regulations. In an interview with NHK, they stated, If the ticket was not purchased through official channels, it cannot be used, and are urging people not to buy such tickets.

LINE Yahoo, which operates auction and flea market sites where multiple cases have been confirmed this time, stated, We are taking measures such as deleting listings of tickets that violate the Act on Prohibition of Unauthorized Ticket Resale or our guidelines as needed.

On the other hand, the major flea market site Mercari states, Expo admission tickets are prohibited from being listed, and if such cases are found, we take measures such as canceling transactions or deleting the items.