Naruto Card Game Teaching Sessions: How to Get a Seat

Updated 1 November 2026: Tokyo now has a Naruto page, so ten of the eleven fest stops carry a session. Of the seven Asian Teaching Session windows, six have closed (Singapore's on 12 October and Kuala Lumpur's on 25 October among them) and only Taipei's is still open, until 3 November. Tokyo's own application window opens on 20 November.

NARUTO CARD GAME does not go on sale until June 2027, when Bandai says the three starter decks and the first booster pack, "Enter: UZUMAKI NARUTO!", arrive together. Bandai has announced no card product to buy before then beyond event exclusives, so every route the company has published to actually sitting down and playing the thing is a demo table at an event.

Until August, BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27 was the vaguest of those routes: eleven stops, Naruto on the title roster, and nothing else. Across August to October that turned into real pages. Ten of the eleven stops now carry a NARUTO CARD GAME event page with a date and a venue. Seven of those ten — Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Taipei — add an application window, a lottery-result date and a prize; Tokyo, added on 16 October, has a window and result dates but publishes no prize; Orlando and London have the page and nothing else yet. Shanghai's separate site showed no Naruto session when last read on 10 October.

Bandai's convention tutorial tables outside the fest run on different rules: free tutorial tickets at New York Comic Con, and first-come bookings that opened on 14 October for SPIEL Essen, Paris Games Week and Lucca. Those shows are now over; Tabletop.me in Dubai (6–8 November) is the next one on Bandai's list. Our Paris Games Week and Lucca guide covers those sign-ups.

The ten stops that have a Naruto session

Bandai runs the fest site in three top-level language editions — English, Japanese and Traditional Chinese — plus a Thai venue site for Bangkok, and Shanghai sits on a separate Simplified Chinese site. Ten of the eleven stops carry a NARUTO CARD GAME page: a Teaching Session at Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Taipei, a Tutorial Session at Orlando and London, and a trial session (体験会) at Tokyo.

Four things about that table are easy to miss. The Hong Kong and Taipei venue sites exist only in Traditional Chinese, and Bangkok's lives only in the Thai edition (its Naruto block is written in English) — there is no English edition of any of the three, and the NARUTO CARD GAME site carries the Hong Kong and Taipei announcements on its Traditional Chinese edition only. Orlando and London, the two stops outside Asia, are the ones with the least on them: each Naruto page lists "Tutorial Session" under Main Event and then says details will be updated in the future. No window and no prize. Singapore is the only stop that prints a capacity for its session: 192. And six of the seven Asian windows have now shut. Bandai has extended application periods at Jakarta (28 August), Hong Kong (1 October) and Bangkok (5 October), but each extension notice lists other titles' events (Jakarta's also lists the admission ticket) and leaves NARUTO CARD GAME off.

Eight of the ten are a lottery, not a queue

This is the part worth internalising if you were planning to turn up and put your name down. Bandai's pre-registration page for Jakarta says the event "is open only to participants who have been selected through the lottery. Same-day registration or entry will not be available." Manila's, Singapore's and Kuala Lumpur's pages repeat it word for word. Hong Kong's page uses the same structure in Chinese, with a 抽籤結果公布 — lottery results announcement — dated from 15 October 2026; Taipei's says in Chinese that only lottery winners may take part, and Bangkok's says the same in Thai.

Applications go through BANDAI TCG+, Bandai's account app, and each stop has its own entry link. As of 1 November 2026, six windows have closed — Jakarta on 24 August, Manila on 3 September, Hong Kong on 27 September, Bangkok on 4 October, Singapore on 12 October and Kuala Lumpur on 25 October — and one is open: Taipei until 3 November. Tokyo's main-event window opens on 20 November. The fest site says every date on it is local time at the venue; none of the Naruto pages gives a closing hour.

Results run on the same stagger. Jakarta's have been out since 10 September, Manila's since 17 September, Hong Kong's from 15 October and Bangkok's from 22 October; Singapore's are due from 5 November, Kuala Lumpur's from 12 November and Taipei's from 19 November. Tokyo's main-event results are due around 14 December.

The face photo is a hard prerequisite in Asia

The hard blocker is not the lottery. It is this, from the pre-registration pages for Jakarta, Manila, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur:

A face photo must be registered in advance to participate in this event. Please complete your registration as early as possible. If your profile does not display "Face Photo Verified" during the application period, you will not be able to apply for this event. The verification process may take one week or longer, so please register your face photo well in advance.

Bangkok's, Hong Kong's and Taipei's pages carry the same requirement in Thai and Chinese. So the gate is not the application date — it is the date your TCG+ profile finishes verification, which Bandai itself puts at a week or more. Singapore and Kuala Lumpur have closed, and Taipei closes on 3 November, so only an account already showing "Face Photo Verified" can still apply there. Tokyo's window opens on 20 November, which leaves roughly three weeks against a review Bandai puts at a week or more.

Two more clauses from the same pages. Minors cannot register a face photo, but Bandai says they remain eligible and should apply on their own account anyway. And Bandai may check ID at the reception desk against the TCG+ account; participation rights are explicitly non-transferable, which is a resale answer as much as an admin one. Tokyo's Japanese pages carry the face-photo requirement too, rule out same-day entry entirely, and add a priority lottery for applicants who link a My Number card.

Orlando is different, but not open-door. Its pre-registration page says the event "will require application in advance to attend", that entry comes through a Competitor Pass bought with a tournament ticket (sales opened on 25 October), and that there will be no on-site waitlist or general admission. It carries the TCG+ account requirement, the ID check and the non-transferable line. What it does not carry is a face-photo requirement or any lottery language, and none of the tournaments it lists is a Naruto one. London's pre-registration page also requires application in advance, with no on-site registration, says same-day visitors cannot participate, and adds a pre-registered general-entry tier. On the outline pages, London's admission reads "Pre-Registration Required." and Orlando's "Pre-Registration Required. Tournament Participants only."; neither mentions a Naruto ticket.

The admission-ticket wording does not line up

The Jakarta and Manila pre-registration pages split applications into two types, "Events for each title" and an admission ticket. Then they add this note:

Please note that admission tickets allow access only to merchandise sales and teaching sessions. Participants with admission tickets will not be able to join any other pre-registration events.

Singapore's and Kuala Lumpur's pre-registration pages carry the same note, and Taipei's says it in Chinese. Read literally, that puts teaching sessions inside the plain admission tier. But the Naruto page for each stop still files its Teaching Session under a pre-registered heading and gives it its own TCG+ entry link with its own window and its own results date. Bandai has not reconciled the two statements anywhere I can find on either site. If you want the session, the Naruto page's own link is the route the Naruto page tells you to take.

Two venue pages call the same event two things

Small, but it is the kind of mismatch worth pinning down before you book travel. On the fest's Manila page, the Naruto block is indexed under the heading Pre-Registered Event and then the section itself is headed On-Site Registration Side Event. Bangkok's page does exactly the same thing. The NARUTO CARD GAME site's own Manila news page calls it a Pre-Registered Side Event.

Jakarta, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Taipei use the pre-registered wording in both places. Everything inside the Manila and Bangkok blocks — an application window, a lottery-results date, a TCG+ entry link — describes pre-registration, and a "winner announcement" date is not something an on-site queue produces. I would treat both as pre-registered and screenshot the page, but Bandai has not corrected either label.

Naruto is still not in the door giveaway

Each fest stop hands attendees a commemorative item as they enter the venue, and the lists are published per venue. Jakarta, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Taipei and Tokyo each cover six titles — Battle Spirits, Digimon, One Piece, Union Arena, Dragon Ball Super and Gundam. Manila and Orlando cover five of those, dropping Battle Spirits. London covers four, dropping Battle Spirits and Union Arena. Shanghai's separate site, as read on 10 October, listed Shanghai entry cards for four titles — Digimon, One Piece, Union Arena and Gundam — with the art still marked "coming soon". NARUTO CARD GAME is on none of the eleven lists, and the ten on the main fest site draw on the same six cards, none of them a Naruto card.

That has not changed since the fest was announced, and it puts CP-001 in a different bucket from the other titles' promos: it is a Teaching Session prize at seven stops, not a walk-in item at any of them.

Where the fest playmats are listed

The seven Asian stops list one NARUTO CARD GAME item. The NARUTO CARD GAME Official Playmat -Arriving in 2027- appears under SPECIAL PRODUCTS on the Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Taipei product pages, with contents given as "Playmat x 1" and the usual limited-quantity note.

Orlando and London are different. Bandai's Premier Demo Event page (13 October) names both as sale points for the Official Playmat -NARUTO vs. SASUKE- (MSRP $40). It originally named them for the $20 Premium Card Collection vol.00 -CHAKRA set- too, but a correction notice dated 22 October says that set will not be sold at Orlando or London. The Orlando and London Naruto pages on the fest site still say details will be updated in the future. Tokyo's event page says the fest's commemorative merchandise there is sold only through Premium Bandai, not at the venue; it does not name a Naruto item.

One wrinkle for the Asian stops. The day-by-day merchandise notices Bandai has since posted for Jakarta (2 October) and Manila (9 October) list which titles are on sale each day, and NARUTO CARD GAME is not named on either day at either stop. Treat the playmat as listed, not guaranteed.

The Asian fest pages publish no price for their playmat. The figure Bandai has published elsewhere is $35 plus tax, on its New York Comic Con, PAX Aus, SPIEL Essen, Paris Games Week and Lucca event pages — different shows in different markets, so do not assume it carries to Jakarta, Manila or Hong Kong.

The prize art on the Asia pages is Japanese

The prize image on all seven Asian Teaching Session pages — Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Taipei — is the Japanese printing of CP-001. The card is titled チャクラカード, and its rules line reads チャクラを使用する際、このカードを裏向きにする。 — the Japanese of the English card's "When using Chakra, turn this card face-down."

Everything else matches the English copy Bandai has shown for the North American events: same Itokazu illustration of Naruto and Sasuke mid-clash, same SAMPLE watermark, same NOT FOR SALE line down the right margin. Bandai does not state which language version is distributed at which stop, and all seven Asian pages use this one image, so treat the artwork as a placeholder rather than a promise about what lands in your hand.

Tokyo now has a Naruto page, Shanghai still does not

Kuala Lumpur and Taipei, which had no venue site when this post was first checked on 31 August, got venue sites whose earliest items are dated 4 September, and they added their Naruto pages on 18 and 25 September. Tokyo followed on 16 October: the NARUTO CARD GAME site posted a Tokyo page and the fest site added a Naruto contents page listing a trial session (体験会). That leaves Shanghai as the one stop where no Naruto page was found when its separate site was last read, on 10 October.

Tokyo's whole event is pre-application only, with no same-day entry, a face-photo requirement and a priority lottery for applicants who link a My Number card. The Naruto page files both weekends' sessions under the main event, so the main-event schedule applies: applications 20–29 November 2026, results around 14 December. The two side-event dates that once looked contradictory belong to different categories rather than disagreeing: a first side-event round from 25 December to 3 January (results around 15 January) and a second round opening on 10 February 2027. Bandai names no prize or capacity for the Tokyo sessions.

The dates firmed up in waves through August and September. On 6 August the fest's front page still read "October 2026" for Manila, "November 2026" for Hong Kong and "January 2027" for Orlando; every stop now carries exact days, Shanghai's being 26–27 December.

What Bandai still has not said

• Orlando's and London's terms. Application window, whether the Tutorial Session needs its own entry, and whether it carries a prize at all. Both Naruto pages say details are coming; tournament tickets for both went on sale on 25 October, but neither pre-registration page lists a Naruto entry.
• Capacity. Singapore prints 192. No other stop publishes how many seats a Teaching Session has, and none says how long one runs or how many run per day.
• What you play with. Nothing published says whether the fest demo decks match the ones Bandai used at Gen Con.
• Tokyo's prize and capacity, and Shanghai. The Tokyo trial-session page names neither a prize nor a seat count, and nothing I could read says whether Naruto appears at Shanghai at all.
• Language. Which printing of CP-001 goes out where.

Taipei is the clock now: its window shuts on Tuesday 3 November, and Singapore and Kuala Lumpur have already closed. If you do not already have a verified face photo on a BANDAI TCG+ account, that is the job to do first, because Bandai's own estimate of the review is a week or more and Tokyo's window opens on 20 November.

Stop list, dates, venues, application windows, lottery dates, capacity, prize and product listings above were verified against the BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27 venue sites (including Shanghai's separate site, last read on 10 October) and the official NARUTO CARD GAME news indexes on 10 October 2026; the Tokyo pages, the Premier Demo Event page (with its 22 October correction) and the 13 October New York Comic Con announcement were re-read on 1 November 2026. Windows are shown as open or closed by their published dates.