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Long lines of customers

Year-end lottery tickets go on sale with 1 bilion yen prize in Japan

Today’s morning (Monday 27) began the sale of the popular Japanese lottery year-end - nenmatsu jumbo takarakuji. For those who usually get a package of sequential numbers has the chance to take the 3 awards, which add up worth 1 billion yen.

For this year, the megaloteria will provide 25 winners of the first prize of 700 million yen. Prizes for the numbers before or after the first are 150 million yen each. In addition, the lucky one can become a billionaire.

As usual, the biggest line was at Tokyo’s Nishi-Ginza where more than 700 people were already waiting when the booth opened at 8:30 a.m. Throughout the day, the waiting time at the booth was 90 minutes.

The Nishi-Ginza booth is popular because it has sold a number of winning tickets in the past. The first person in line at the Nisei-Ginza booth was a 37-year-old man from Ishioka in Ibaraki Prefecture. He said he had arrived on Sunday morning. He bought 60 tickets and said if he wins the big money, he will donate most of it to help the recovery effort in the Tohoku region.

Tickets for a Jumbo Mini Lottery also went on sale, with 70 million yen in prize money. Lottery tickets, which cost 300 yen, will be sold through Dec 22 and winning numbers will be announced on Dec 31.

Source: GMB / Japan Today