Next edition — Dec 29–31, 2026 (CONFIRMED)
Hotel check-in nights: Dec 28–30, 2026
Crowd size — 300,000 over two days · C107, 30-31 December 2025
Comiket, the Comic Market, is where individual creators sell manga, games and goods they made themselves, at Tokyo Big Sight in Ariake. C109 runs 29-31 December 2026; C110 follows on 14-15 August 2027. It suits fans of self-published manga and cosplay. Every adult needs a paid wristband or ticket, and overnight queuing is banned, so a nearby room buys you sleep, not a head start.
How the date is set — Twice a year at Tokyo Big Sight: in the last days of December and in mid-August. The organiser publishes dates months ahead (C109's on 24 March 2026) and admission details shortly before the tickets go on sale.
How often it runs — C109 is the first edition longer than two days since winter 2019, because circle applications outgrew the halls left open by Big Sight's renovation. For now the organiser calls three days a measure for this winter only; C110 returns to two days in every hall.
Goes first — The eves of all three days, 28, 29 and 30 December, at the few hotels within walking distance of Big Sight. 28 December is the official set-up day for exhibiting circles, and the last day closes at 16:00 on New Year's Eve.
Act by — Now, on a plan you can cancel. C109 ticket prices and sale dates are due in early November, and AM and PM wristbands are planned to go on sale about a month before the event.
The organiser's international page says C109 details come in late October or early November, before Early Entry tickets go on sale, with other ticket types about a month before the event.
Comic Market Committee — “Comic Market 109: Information for International Participants” — https://www.comiket.co.jp/info-a/TAFO/C109TAFO/index.html (read 2026-11-03)
A sold-out listing may reopen after a cancellation or an additional room release. 空きウォッチ Aki checks Rakuten Travel for new openings, so you can act when one appears.
Watch the rooms — free, no account
Comiket is not a convention with a show floor. It is a market: circles, which are individuals and their friends, never companies, sell work they made themselves from tables that run the length of Tokyo Big Sight. The genres and circles change completely from one day to the next, so the day you pick decides what you will find.
C109 needs three days. The previous winter drew more than 30,000 circle applications; even after squeezing in about 1,000 extra spaces, nearly 10,000 lost the lottery, and this winter renovation keeps East Halls 4-6 shut. Circles fill East 1-3 and 7, West 1-2 and South 1-2; companies take West 3-4 and South 3-4; cosplayers gather in East 8, on the rooftop and in the garden.
Waiting overnight near the venue is banned, and the organiser asks you not to arrive before the first trains; coming earlier barely changes when you get in. The Early Entry ticket exists to end the overnight queue: it carries your name, is sold by lottery and lets you in at 10:30, ahead of the AM wristbands.
So a room near Big Sight is a shorter, warmer morning, not a head start: there is little to gain from queuing at dawn, and from Ariake the line is a few minutes' walk whenever you set out. At C108, Early Entry holders checked in between 8:00 and 10:00, in the slot printed on their ticket. Once inside, you can go out and come back while wearing the wristband, so a nearby room also takes the bags.
C109's third day is 31 December, and the halls close at 16:00. Comiket has met New Year's Eve before: the December 2025 edition ran on 30-31 December, and the organiser thought the December 2024 edition, which kept clear of it, had drawn more people. In December 2025 the catering stalls sold year-end soba, and the queue rivalled a popular circle's.
That edition had unusually mild highs of 16°C and 14°C and visitors from 75 countries and regions. If you fly home on New Year's Day, settle the night of 31 December when you book the rest: we check 28 to 30 December only.
Every adult needs a ticket or wristband, bought separately for each day; the catalogue does not get you in. C109 keeps the C102-C108 system: a named Early Entry ticket sold by lottery, AM wristbands sold in advance (at C108 including an e-ticket for residents abroad) and PM wristbands, the only kind also sold at the venue. One child aged 15 or under enters free with each adult. Cosplayers register at a changing room, ¥500 a day.
Comic Market Committee — “Comic Market FAQ (updated 30 October 2026)” — https://www.comiket.co.jp/FAQ.html (read 2026-11-03)
Watching for free — There is no free-entry time at all, early or late.
How hard it actually is — Only a handful of hotels stand within walking distance of Big Sight, and circle members, cosplayers and visitors from outside Tokyo all want the same three nights. Toyosu, Shin-Kiba and Oimachi are one direct ride away; central Tokyo has far more rooms but means an earlier train. 空きウォッチ Aki checks fifteen hotels around Ariake, Toyosu, Daiba, Shiomi, Shin-Kiba, Harumi and Oimachi on Rakuten Travel for the nights of 28, 29 and 30 December.
What a night costs — C109's nights fall under Tokyo's flat accommodation tax on the room-only rate per person per night: nothing under ¥10,000, ¥100 from ¥10,000 and ¥200 from ¥15,000. Comiket tickets and wristbands are never refunded, so the room is the part of the trip to keep flexible: book a plan you can cancel.
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