D1GP Ebisu Tickets and Gate Times: Rd.5 & 6, 26–27 Sept 2026

D1 Grand Prix Rd.5 and Rd.6 run at Ebisu Circuit (Fukushima) on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 September 2026, and the Friday before is a closed official practice day with no spectator admission. Advance reserved seats are ¥6,600 (B) to ¥11,000 (SS) per person per day, and the advance window shuts at 23:00 JST the night before each day; miss it and the same seat costs ¥2,200 more at the gate price, which turns a two-day pair of B seats from ¥13,200 into ¥17,600. We checked the official D1 Grand Prix ticket page, the round page and the Ebisu Circuit site on 18 September 2026, when SS was the only grade marked 完売 (kanbai, sold out).

What does a ticket cost, and what changes at 23:00?

Every figure below is per person and per day. A D1 weekend at Ebisu is a double-header, so Saturday is Rd.5 and Sunday is Rd.6, and each day needs its own ticket.

Entry to the venue is included in the seat price. That is the arithmetic worth acting on: ¥2,200 per person per day is the price of leaving it late, and ¥4,400 across the weekend for a pair of B seats. Our own event record had every reserved grade marked sold out when we checked it on 4 September 2026; the page carries a last-modified stamp of 17 September 2026 and now shows only SS as 完売, so A, B and S seats were live again on the morning of 18 September.

Two other things sit on the same page. There is a Fukushima residents’ price of ¥6,600 for A and ¥5,500 for B, which the page says must be issued on a Loppi kiosk inside Fukushima Prefecture and cannot be bought in the app. And there are premium tickets at ¥30,000 to ¥55,000 that bundle a dedicated stand, a rest area, a bento, a souvenir and a drift-taxi ride; the ¥55,000 grade adds a window seat in the hospitality trailer.

Why you probably cannot buy this ticket yourself

D1GP Ebisu tickets are sold through Lawson Ticket on L-code 22514. That single line is the step most overseas readers cannot finish alone. Lawson Ticket’s own rails expect a Japanese mobile number for account verification and will not post paper tickets to an address outside Japan, and the electronic version runs through a Japanese-language smartphone app with resale disabled. The in-prefecture discount goes one step further and requires a physical Loppi kiosk standing inside Fukushima. We have written up the full mechanics of Japanese ticket platforms in our guide to buying Japanese drift event tickets from overseas, including which platforms do and do not accept a foreign card.

What time should you be at the gate?

The official timetable is identical for both days. The one difference is the round number: Saturday decides Rd.5, Sunday decides Rd.6.

If you only care about the battles, 13:20 is your anchor. If you want the paddock quiet and the cars cold, the 8:00 opening is the better hour. The organiser notes that weather and delays can move the whole schedule.

Getting to the gate on a race morning

Ebisu Circuit is at 1 Sawa-Matsukura, Nihonmatsu, Fukushima. The circuit’s own access note puts it about 15 minutes by car from Nihonmatsu IC on the Tohoku Expressway, and about 20 minutes by taxi from JR Nihonmatsu Station. The D1 timetable page recommends arriving by public transport and warns that police enforcement against illegal parking in the surrounding streets is stepped up for this event, which is worth reading together with the ¥1,000 gate-only parking charge.

Neither official page publishes an event shuttle for this round, so treat a shuttle as not officially stated. The realistic car-free route is Shinkansen to Koriyama, local train to Nihonmatsu, then a taxi or the Fukushima Kotsu route bus for the last stretch. We set out the train times, the toll costs and the bus timetable trap in how to get to Ebisu Circuit from Tokyo, and the circuit itself, including which courses are where, in our Ebisu Circuit guide.

One more point for anyone hoping to run: D1 Grand Prix is a licensed professional series with no open entry. Ebisu’s own drift matsuri and the EDS series are where a visitor drives; D1GP is where a visitor watches.

What if this weekend is already impossible?

Two more D1 Grand Prix weekends follow in 2026: Rd.7 and Rd.8 at Autopolis on 24–25 October, and Rd.9 and Rd.10 on 14–15 November. The venue for that finale is printed two ways on the official site as of 18 September 2026, as Odaiba in the site footer and as T.B.A. in the top navigation, so treat the location as unconfirmed. Both are still far enough out to plan properly rather than scramble. The venue-by-venue picture, including which rounds you can reach without a car, is in D1 Grand Prix 2026 rounds and venues, and every dated drift event we track sits on the TSUISO event calendar.

For this weekend, the decision is small and the clock is not: choose a day, then have the purchase made before 23:00 JST on Friday 25 September 2026.