TVXQ concert "TIME" in Nissan Stadium

On Saturday, August 17th and Sunday, August 18th, TVXQ held their final concert dates for their "TIME" summer concert.

It was held at the Nissan Stadium in Yokohama. This is the largest stadium in Japan and can hold up to 75,000 spectators (concert layout mode) at one time. This stadium is famous for holding soccer matches for FIFA and well for the national J-League.
http://www.nissan-stadium.jp/floor/index.php

This venue is not easy to fill and so far not a single international star has held a concert here yet. In Japan, famous singers such as Southern All Stars, SMAP, B'z, AKB48, Eikichi Yazawa, to name a few, have held concerts here. But TVXQ has become the first non-Japanese star to hold a concert here and have it completely sold out for both days.

This concert was the last leg of their "TIME" summer concert and it was added part way through there regular 5 dome concert tour. I was so happy to get one set of tickets to their Tokyo Dome concert and never imagined I would win two more tickets for this Stadium concert. So when I did win the tickets, I was ecstatic!!

But we don't get our tickets until about two weeks before the actual concert date to avoid scalping. Of course it still happens but less and usual, I guess. So when I got my tickets I could finally see where I'd be sitting. This is what it looked like...


We sat smack in the middle and had a direct view of the center stage (even though it was so far away)!! Plus the sub stage was directly in front of us so this was a great bonus for us!! But I had never been to a venue so large that I've never experienced sound delay before. So light does travel faster than sound!! i would be watching the huge screen and see their mouths moving but the sound is off... Duh!! Physics!! Lol!!

So the concert started at 5:30 sharp and the set list was pretty much the same as that of the Dome tour. But there were a few songs added to the set list as well as their new single called "Scream" (to be released September 4th, 2013). The MC section was different from that of the Dome tour too so that was great. The video sections were of course the same though.

We all got a special wrist watch style light that has a computer chip in it and the staff controlled the colors it emitted depending on the song and area we sat. It was amazingly beautiful!! The entire audience became one and switched like a well trained synchronized swimming team between the regular red pen lights to the special wrist lights. We got to keep the wrist light and the color was fixed at "red", which is TVXQ's image color!!

One thing that was a bit of a problem is that it was a very windy day but it was very sunny. The reason why this was a problem is because it kept "wrecking Changmin's hair style"!! Lol!! He kept complaining about this, as a joke, of course!! Lol!! As for me, it was a little chilly so I wrapped myself in the concert tour towel I had brought with me... But considering that it's still summer and usually hot and humid in Japan, this breeze was very refreshing and a saving grace for an outdoors concert for all of us. Both TVXQ members were saying how grateful they were for the breeze that day too!!

I don't know how to express my excitement and even though I'm uploading this blog many days after the concert, I can still feel I'm there enjoying it...
They've announced the DVD and Blu-ray release of the Tokyo Dome concert (the day I went, too!!) and I've made a reservation for it already, of course. I hope they decide to release a special one for the Stadium concert too!!

Next time I get to see the two of them will be at the "a-nation fest" on Saturday, August 31st, 2013 at Ajinomoto Stadium. I shall write about that later on!! 

TVXQ at Nissan Stadium

Click the link above to check out the news video for how exciting it was!!