Two Days of Firsts at TWICE's National Stadium Show with My Daughter, and the Roar of 80,000 Voices

On April 25, 2026, I went with my daughter to see TWICE at National Stadium.

We went to the first of the additional shows for TWICE <THIS IS FOR> WORLD TOUR IN JAPAN. My daughter flew from Hokkaido to Tokyo that morning, and we met up at Haneda Airport. From there, we headed straight to National Stadium, so it was a pretty packed schedule from the start.

To make it even better, we had plane ticket trouble both at the beginning and at the end. Between the concert itself, the long merch line, trading cards, negotiating to get silver tape, and going back to the venue again the next day, it turned into two days packed with firsts.

Table of Contents

• TWICE National Stadium Additional Show Overview
• The Tour Atmosphere Through Video from Tokyo Dome
• April 25 Setlist
• The Roar of 80,000 at National Stadium
• April 25: To National Stadium with My Daughter from Hokkaido
• April 26: Back to National Stadium Again
• After Our TWICE Trip

TWICE National Stadium Additional Show Overview

This National Stadium run was held as the Japan additional dates for the world tour that started in Seoul, across three days: April 25, 26, and 28. We went on the first of those dates.

The second and third dates were also streamed on U-NEXT, so some people may have watched online.

The announcement for the additional National Stadium dates was also posted on the TWICE JAPAN OFFICIAL YouTube Channel.

Watch “TWICE <THIS IS FOR> WORLD TOUR IN JAPAN Additional Shows Announced!” on YouTube

This tour had an incredibly packed schedule, and there were also absences caused by injuries and health issues. On the dates right before this one, DAHYUN and CHAEYOUNG were unable to participate, so seeing all 9 members together at National Stadium felt even more reassuring than usual.

It was also late in the tour, which made me, as a fan, start wondering on my own whether I’d get to keep seeing TWICE together as all 9 going forward. There were still European dates scheduled after National Stadium, so it was a slightly strange point in the tour to treat as a milestone. Even so, if all 9 members were going to be onstage together at a huge venue in Japan, there was no way I wasn’t going.

The Tour Atmosphere Through Video from Tokyo Dome

This isn’t official footage from National Stadium itself, but the opening performance of “THIS IS FOR” from the Tokyo Dome show on the same Japan leg has been released on official YouTube.

The visuals that pull you into the darkened venue all at once, and then the cheer the instant all 9 members appear onstage. It’s the kind of video that gives you a clear feel for how this tour begins.

From the middle into the second half, one signature TWICE song after another keeps coming: “FANCY,” “What is Love?,” “YES or YES,” and “Dance The Night Away.”

Official footage of “What is Love?” from the Tokyo Dome show is out too. The way the entire venue moves with the same choreography, and the way the whole atmosphere changes as soon as the intro starts, was exactly the same at National Stadium.

Watch “What is Love?” from the Tokyo Dome show on YouTube

There were also lots of people outside the venue just to hear the sound. This video gives a good sense of what the area around National Stadium felt like during the show.

April 25 Setlist

The setlist that day was 36 songs total. The main tour songs, solo performances from each of the 9 members, signature Japanese tracks, and the encore, it really had everything.

“ONE SPARK” is one of those songs whose MV I absolutely love too. The way all 9 members keep moving forward together overlapped with what I was seeing that day at National Stadium.

Watch the “ONE SPARK” M/V on YouTube

The Roar of 80,000 at National Stadium

This concert was full of firsts for me: my first time at National Stadium, my first time at a venue on the scale of 80,000 people, and my first time seeing the members ride around on the concert carts.

What stays with me the most is still the cheering.

When 80,000 people all yelled at once, it felt like an army straight out of Kingdom. More than just loud, it felt like a deep rumble coming up from under the ground. Every time a member appeared on the screen, another wave of cheers rolled in, and that wave circled the whole stadium.

This video was filmed from outside the venue on day 3, April 28, during “What is Love?” and “YES or YES.” Even from outside the stadium, you can clearly hear how big the sing-along and the cheers were.

And the concert carts, which were only used at the National Stadium dates on this tour. We were in the stands, so it wasn’t like they were close, but it still made me happy that the members came around the venue.

The show started, as usual, right after “Like OOH-AHH” finished playing. Once it began, it went by in no time at all.

I got to watch TWICE as all 9 members, in the same place as my daughter. That alone made it feel worth bringing her.

April 25: To National Stadium with My Daughter from Hokkaido

A Sudden Ticket Problem at the Airport

That morning, my daughter was supposed to travel from Hokkaido to Tokyo.

But as soon as she got to the airport, I got a call saying she’d been told, “We can’t issue this ticket, so you’ll need to buy it again.” Trouble right from the start.

I stayed on the phone with my daughter and spoke with the airline staff, and in the end they agreed to handle it internally for the moment. The catch was that they couldn’t apply the support service for children flying alone. I told them that part was fine, and they let her board the flight she was originally scheduled to take.

That service is the one where a guardian can stay with the child all the way to the gate, the cabin crew looks after them during the flight, and staff guide them to the exit after arrival. My daughter had already turned 12, so at that point I assumed that was probably why.

I met up with her safely at Haneda Airport. I asked whether the same thing might happen again on the return flight, and they told us it would be fine, so I let myself relax for a bit.

Dropping Our Bags at a Haneda Airport Hotel and Heading to Gaienmae

Because we also had to think about getting back the next day, I had booked Villa Fontaine Grand Haneda Airport. We went to the hotel first, left my daughter’s luggage there, and then headed for National Stadium.

I figured going from National Stadium Station would be packed, so we decided to walk from Gaienmae Station instead.

On the way, when we transferred at Shimbashi, we stopped at a stand-up soba place. My daughter said she wanted an oyakodon but probably wouldn’t be able to finish the whole thing, so I planned to order a little less for myself and share hers.

What she left behind, though, was maybe two bites of rice.

Come on, if you’re going to leave the rice, at least leave a little of the egg part too.

Fan Club Perks and a Ninety-Minute Merch Line

We walked from Gaienmae Station and arrived at National Stadium. First, we headed to the nearby fan club booth and picked up the novelty perk.

Then we went straight to the merch area, and the line was way beyond what I expected. In the end, we stood there for about an hour and a half before we could buy anything.

After buying merch, we moved over to the area where people were gathering to trade photo cards.

Seeing My Daughter Grow Through Trading Cards

My daughter laid out the cards she wanted to trade and started looking for someone who would swap for the SANA card she wanted.

Before, she used to get embarrassed about talking to people she didn’t know, and she’d have a hard time making a trade. This time, though, it seemed like her desire to complete the set was stronger.

She told me, “Hold down the fort here for me,” left me with the cards, and went off with a few of them to look for someone to trade with. After a while, she really did come back with a successful trade.

People really do grow when they get desperate enough.

While I was watching the cards, an even younger child than my daughter came over and asked if we would trade for one of their cards. I almost said yes on the spot, but the cards belonged to my daughter. I told them I’d check once she came back, and asked them to look around a little more for the time being.

Later my daughter said it was OK too. They came back again, and the trade worked out in the end.

While we were in the trading area, we could also hear the rehearsal from inside National Stadium. One of my favorite songs, “Fanfare,” came on, and at first I was happy just to hear it during rehearsal, but it seemed they were actually checking the set they were going to use for that night’s encore.

Getting Inside, Getting Sunburned, and Then the Concert Starts

My daughter and I had agreed that we’d go in early once the gates opened, so we made our way to the gate around opening time.

On the way, a MINA wrapping truck showed up too. It looked like something put together by people who support MINA, and I was honestly impressed by the energy and drive of ONCE.

Once we got inside, we were hungry, so we grabbed a light meal and drank some water. We’d been out in the sun the whole time in the trading-card area, and by then I was already a little sunburned and my skin was starting to hurt.

Then “Like OOH-AHH” finished playing, and the concert finally started.

The cheering was unreal.

The concert carts looked far away from our seats in the stands, but even so, my daughter had the best time seeing TWICE as all 9 members together with 80,000 other people. Before I knew it, the 36-song show was over in an instant.

The Post-Show Silver Tape Mission

Even after the concert ended, we still had one more thing to do. The mission was to get silver tape.

Usually, there are plenty of ONCE who’ll share silver tape when they notice a younger kid, but this time it didn’t seem like waiting around would be enough. We moved to an area where lots of people had silver tape, and I had my daughter try asking a few of them, saying, “Why don’t you ask that person?”

And just like that, she came back with silver tape in hand.

After the trading cards, this was another moment when I could really feel how much she’d grown.

National Stadium Station looked like it would still be crowded on the way back, so we walked to Gaienmae Station again. We were at least able to get seats on the train from there, but our hotel was at Haneda Airport. It was still a pretty long trip.

For the moment, I bought some rice balls at a convenience store and got my daughter to eat them. She said, “I’m full now,” and then slept basically the entire train ride.

She’d flown in from Hokkaido, spent the day in the sun trading cards with adults, gone wild at the concert, and then negotiated for silver tape at the end. Of course she was exhausted.

After we checked into the hotel, I sent my daughter to take a bath first, and I went out to the convenience store to buy food. She was eating bread after her bath, so apparently she really had been hungry after all.

But after that, she fell asleep almost immediately.

April 26: Back to National Stadium Again

A Hot Spring Before Sunrise and the Morning Glow Over Haneda

I should have been exhausted too, but I woke up before sunrise. Since I was awake anyway, I went to Izumi Tenku no Yu Haneda Airport, the natural hot spring attached to the hotel.

By the time I got out of the bath, the sun was starting to rise from behind the buildings of Haneda Airport.

My daughter got up around 9:00, so we got ready and checked out. We left our bags at the hotel, though, because we were heading back to National Stadium one more time.

Drinks, Crepes, and More Trading Cards

That day, she wanted to enjoy the food stands and drinks at the venue and keep trading cards until the absolute last minute before she had to catch her flight home.

We had the drink printed with “THIS IS FOR,” ate crepes, and I think we had beef tongue too. Unlike the actual concert the day before, this time we could just take our time enjoying the outside of the venue.

While I was watching the cards in the trading area, we could hear that day’s rehearsal too. We heard “Wake Me Up,” “CANDY POP,” and “Pink Lemonade,” and I started guessing that those three songs might be that day’s encore.

For a second I thought maybe I should come back on April 28 just to hear the sound leaking out from outside, but I had plans to go out for drinks that day. I gave up on the idea.

When it was finally time to leave and we headed toward the ticket gates at National Stadium Station, there was another ad put up by MINA fans. Lots of people had stopped to take photos.

The wrapping truck, the station ad, the people supporting their favorite member really are on another level.

We Finally Figured Out the Cause of the Ticket Problem at Haneda Airport

We picked up our bags at the hotel, and then, as a late lunch and early dinner combined, we went to Meiran Haneda Airport Garden.

We ordered gyoza, xiao long bao, fried rice, and tantanmen for me. My daughter ate almost all of the xiao long bao and fried rice by herself. I was a little moved seeing how much more she can eat now than she used to.

After that, we went to the airport a little early and asked whether we could use the support service for children flying alone.

And then we were told again, “You’ll need to buy the ticket again.”

I had already checked when we arrived to make sure the return flight would be fine, and yet we ended up in the exact same situation. This time, I asked them to please tell me what the actual problem was, and we finally got the answer.

When I bought the ticket, my daughter was still 11. Based on the information from when it was purchased, the ticket had been issued as a child fare. But by the day of the flight, she had already turned 12, which meant she couldn’t board under that fare category anymore.

If the fare category was wrong, there was no choice but to buy it again. When we checked the price, they let us use Smart U25 this time. Including the refund for the original ticket, the extra payment ended up being about 10,000 yen, so that was a relief.

It’s not uncommon for children in sixth grade to turn 12 during the school year. Airlines don’t go by school grade. Fares and support conditions change based on the passenger’s age on the day of the flight, so it’s something you really have to watch out for. The rules differ by airline, so if you’re booking across a birthday, it’s safest to confirm at the time of purchase.

That said, it’s not like the child fare is dramatically cheaper anyway.

After Our TWICE Trip

It started with plane ticket trouble, then a ninety-minute merch line, trading cards, the cheers of 80,000 people, hunting for silver tape, and then going back to National Stadium again the next day.

Looking back, it really was one first after another.

What stayed with me most was seeing my daughter look for her own photo-card trades and, after the concert, speak up to people holding silver tape. Those were things she would have been too shy to do before, but this time she did them herself to get what she wanted.

And more than anything, I’m glad my daughter and I got to see TWICE with all 9 members together.

Those two days were an absolute blast. I want to go see TWICE together with my daughter again when all 9 members are there.