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http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120103003698.htm

Sky Tree booked for 1st month

The Tokyo Sky Tree, set to open on May 22, has been completely booked by groups seeking to visit the tower during the first month of its opening, while individual tickets are yet to be made available.

Requests can be made to visit the tower up to six months in advance, but only 2,654 of the 27,122 groups that had requested to tour the Sky Tree during the first month of its opening have been able to secure tickets.

Up to 4,000 people can visit the tower each day in groups of 25 people or more.

Sky tree ticket reservations are mandatory only for the first 1-1/2 months after its opening. But it appears that daily tickets for the next six months are completely booked out as they become available.

Operator Tobu Tower Sky tree Co. has said demand is so high that all group slots from May 22 to June 27 had been filled.