Kenshi Yonezu Announces Biggest World Tour, With 14 Shows Across 11 Cities

GHOST opens at Taipei Dome before heading across three continents

Kenshi Yonezu will open his largest world tour with two concerts at Taipei Dome on December 26 and 27, 2026, before travelling through Asia, North America and Europe. The 14 shows in 11 cities are expected to draw approximately 200,000 people, more than twice the attendance of his previous international tour.

Announced on October 15, KENSHI YONEZU 2026-2027 WORLD TOUR / GHOST will finish at Amsterdam's Ziggo Dome on February 28, 2027. Singapore, Oakland, Mexico City, Toronto and Amsterdam will host Yonezu concerts for the first time.

Yonezu's official tour announcement, published by Reissue Records, confirms that every performance will take place in a dome or arena. Taipei receives two dates, Seoul gets three, and each of the remaining nine cities has one concert.

The international run follows KENSHI YONEZU 2026 TOUR / GHOST in Japan, which begins at Nagano Big Hat on November 6 and ends at K-Arena Yokohama on December 17. Together, the Japanese and overseas schedules comprise 28 performances, with nine days between the final domestic concert and the opening in Taipei.

For fans, the announcement brings both a wider choice of destinations and different ticket arrangements depending on the city. Taipei has a registration lottery and several priority purchase periods, while the announcement covering the 2027 dates gives October 22 as the general sale date.

How much bigger is this tour?

The 2025 WORLD TOUR / JUNK sold out all 10 international performances across seven cities, attracting approximately 90,000 people. GHOST expands that overseas itinerary to 11 cities and 14 performances, with projected attendance of about 200,000.

Those figures mean four additional cities and four additional shows. The city count rises by approximately 57%, the number of performances by 40%, and anticipated attendance by about 122%. The biggest increase is therefore in the number of people organisers expect to accommodate.

The figures also suggest a substantial change in the average audience per performance. Dividing 90,000 attendees by 10 shows gives about 9,000 people per concert in 2025. The new target of 200,000 across 14 shows works out to roughly 14,300 per performance. Actual attendance will depend on the venue and concert configuration.

The 2025 JUNK campaign also drew approximately 440,000 people across its Japanese and international concerts combined. The useful comparison for the new world tour is its overseas predecessor's 90,000 attendees, while the larger figure describes the full domestic and international campaign.

Taipei moves from an arena to a dome

Taipei will host Yonezu's first concerts at Taipei Dome, following his March 2025 appearances at Taipei Arena. The two venues have similar English names but are separate buildings, making the venue name an important detail for anyone arranging travel.

The local organisers say Yonezu will become the first Japanese solo artist to hold solo concerts at Taipei Dome since it opened. His December 26 and 27 performances will both begin at 6 p.m., with doors opening at 3 p.m.

Taipei also holds a prominent place in his streaming audience. Figures cited around the announcement put his Spotify monthly listeners above 9.5 million and identify Taipei as his strongest listening city outside Japan. Monthly listeners count the people who listen during a rolling monthly period, rather than the number of times songs are played.

BIG ART, SUPER DOME and HAPPY MUSIC are the Taipei promoters, with CTBC and Taiwan Mobile listed as major sponsors. Their involvement also shapes the first ticket purchase windows, which are reserved for eligible bank customers and mobile subscribers.

Taipei tickets use registration and a lottery

Standard Taipei tickets cost NT$1,800, NT$2,480, NT$2,800, NT$3,880, NT$4,480, NT$4,880, NT$5,680 and NT$5,980. Accessible concession seats are listed at NT$2,240 and NT$2,840. Sales use registration under the attendee's real name and a lottery, meaning applicants register first and selection determines who receives an opportunity to buy.

The published schedule separates priority purchases, public registration and a possible sale of remaining tickets. All the following dates are in 2026, with times applying locally in Taipei:

• October 24, noon to 4 p.m.: priority purchases for eligible CTBC premium wealth management cardholders.
• October 25, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.: the wider CTBC cardholder priority period. The eligibility notice excludes American Express cards.
• October 26, noon, to October 28, noon: priority purchases for qualifying Taiwan Mobile customers with a dedicated purchase code.
• October 29, 1 p.m., to October 31, 1 p.m.: public lottery registration through Ticket Plus.
• November 2: the lottery draw, followed by further selection rounds.
• November 19, noon: a provisional general sale, subject to tickets remaining after the earlier stages.

The November 19 sale is conditional. Organisers say it may not take place if the earlier purchase and lottery stages use the available tickets. The detailed registration and eligibility rules are being handled through Ticket Plus and the Taipei promoters.

The complete international itinerary

Asia accounts for six of the 14 performances, North America for five and Europe for three. Taipei is the only stop scheduled in 2026; all remaining concerts take place in January and February 2027.

The official schedule names Newark as the February 12 destination. Although the announcement also describes a return to the New York/Newark area, the concert itself is at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.

• December 26 and 27, 2026: Taipei, Taipei Dome.
• January 14, 16 and 17, 2027: Seoul, Inspire Arena.
• January 29: Singapore, Singapore Indoor Stadium.
• February 4: Oakland, Oakland Arena.
• February 6: Los Angeles, The Kia Forum.
• February 9: Mexico City, Sports Palace, also known as Palacio de los Deportes.
• February 12: Newark, Prudential Center.
• February 14: Toronto, Scotiabank Arena.
• February 24: London, The O2 Arena.
• February 26: Paris, Accor Arena.
• February 28: Amsterdam, Ziggo Dome.

Seoul's three performances fall on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, with no concert listed for Friday, January 15. The European finish is more tightly spaced: London, Paris and Amsterdam each follow two days after the previous show.

Five new destinations widen access

Singapore, Oakland, Mexico City, Toronto and Amsterdam make up five of the tour's 11 cities. For audiences in those places, GHOST brings a first opportunity to attend a Yonezu concert in their own city rather than travelling to one of his established stops.

North America has the widest spread of destinations, with five cities across the United States, Mexico and Canada. Oakland and Los Angeles open that leg, followed by Mexico City, Newark and Toronto. All five performances fall between February 4 and 14.

Amsterdam adds a third European destination alongside returning stops London and Paris. Singapore joins Taipei and Seoul on the Asian leg, while Seoul's expanded three date run gives it more performances than any other city on the itinerary.

Live Nation is named as promoter for the announced 2027 dates, with a general sale beginning Thursday, October 22, 2026, at noon local time. Reissue Records directs fans to the relevant local promoters for each concert's ticket details. Taipei follows its separate schedule, beginning with priority purchases on October 24.

IRIS OUT brings a larger global audience

Yonezu enters the GHOST campaign after the international success of IRIS OUT, the theme song for Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc. Released in September 2025, it reached No. 5 on the Billboard Global 200, the highest position achieved by a song in Japanese.

The Global 200 ranks songs using streaming and sales activity from markets around the world. A position near its top places Yonezu's music alongside major international releases, extending his reach beyond Japan's domestic charts.

IRIS OUT also became the fastest song in Billboard JAPAN history to reach 100 million streams. It spent 24 consecutive weeks at No. 1 on Oricon's weekly streaming chart, the longest such run by a solo artist. Yonezu performed it on the 76th NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen on December 31, 2025.

His connection with Chainsaw Man also includes KICK BACK, the television anime's opening theme, which became the first song in Japanese to receive Platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America. JANE DOE, performed with Hikaru Utada, serves as the Reze Arc film's ending theme.

Yonezu first gained attention as Hachi in the Vocaloid community, where creators use software to produce singing voices, before beginning his career under his own name in 2012. His catalogue now connects listeners arriving through anime with those who know songs such as Lemon, written for the television drama Unnatural, and Chikyugi – Spinning Globe, created for Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron.

Japan's GHOST dates lead directly overseas

The Japanese GHOST tour consists of 14 arena performances across Nagano, Kanagawa, Osaka, Fukuoka, Miyagi and Aichi. Nagano Big Hat hosts November 6 and 7, followed by K-Arena Yokohama on November 11 and 12.

Osaka Castle Hall follows on November 18 and 19, Marine Messe Fukuoka Hall A on November 27 and 28, and Miyagi's Sekisui Heim Super Arena on December 3 and 4. Port Messe Nagoya hosts December 8 and 9 before the tour returns to K-Arena Yokohama for December 16 and 17.

The shared GHOST name links the domestic and international schedules. A set list and detailed staging plan have not been announced. The confirmed information centres on dates, venues and ticket arrangements.

Yonezu's recent work also includes Karasu – Raven, the 2026 NHK soccer theme, and Yodaka, the theme for KINGDOM: THE CLASH OF SOULS. During the international tour, Sayonara, Mata Itsuka! will return as the opening theme for the feature film Tora ni Tsubasa, scheduled to open in Japan on January 15, 2027, between the first and second Seoul performances.

Key Points

• GHOST runs from December 26, 2026, to February 28, 2027, with 14 concerts in 11 cities.
• Organisers expect approximately 200,000 attendees, compared with 90,000 on the 2025 international JUNK tour.
• Taipei hosts two dome concerts, while Seoul receives three arena performances.
• Singapore, Oakland, Mexico City, Toronto and Amsterdam are new destinations for Yonezu.
• Taipei tickets range from NT$1,800 to NT$5,980, with public lottery registration from October 29 to 31.
• The 2027 dates have an announced general sale on October 22 at noon local time; Taipei uses a separate purchase schedule.
• The final concert takes place at Amsterdam's Ziggo Dome on February 28, 2027.