It will cost a little more this season for tickets to Japanese professional baseball games, like everything else in Japan. Because of the rise in the consumption tax rate from 5 to 8 percent effective April 1, most teams are increasing ticket costs by¥100 or ¥200 across the board from 2013 prices.
Also, more teams are going to the "flex" system with various prices for games depending on the day of the week and opponent team. The Fukuoka Softbank Hawks, Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles and Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters are the clubs "flexing" this season.
So, for example, you might pay as little as ¥2,500 or as much as ¥5,900 for an "Eagle" seat at Rakuten's Kobo Stadium in Sendai, as low as ¥8,000 or as high as ¥12,000 for a Premium SS seat for a Hawks game at Softbank's Yafuoku Dome in Fukuoka and between ¥4,000 and ¥7,000 for an SS reserved seat at Fighters games at Sapporo Dome.