In June 2008, miyavi embarked on his very first world tour. Needless to say, over the whole world, his fans were going crazy with the prospective of seeing the multitalented artist live. Kicking off with a performance in Japan in May, miyavi and his crew then headed to the United States, followed by three performances in South America (courtesy by JaME Brazil), a Europe tour taking him to eight different European countries, five shows in East Asia and ending with a number of concerts in his home country, Japan.
miyavi‘s management sent us the following summary and pictures of the tour.
雅-miyavi-
1st WORLD TOUR
THIS IZ THE JAPANESE KABUKI ROCK TOUR 2008
VOCAL&GUITAR: MIYAVI
MC: TYKO
MC: DAGFORCE (only EU CIRCUIT)
BASS: HIGE-chang
DRUMS: RYO YAMAGATA
DJ: TeddyLoid
TAP&HANDSONIC: SARO
Total amount of countries performed in: 14
A total of 33 performances.
Total traveling distance of the tour: 48,385 miles
The same distance as the total length going around the world!
Total number of local media: covered by about 200 Companies
Including JaME.
Total number of local currency used: 10 different currencies
$ (Dollar), $ (Peso), R$ (Real), € (Euro), krone (Kröne), ￡ (Pound), NT $ (Taiwanese dollar) ₩ (Won), 元 (Yüan), 円 (Yen)
Total number of languages Miyavi used on stage: 11 different national languages
English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, French, Chinese, Korean and Japanese
Performance in Chile:
miyavi was the first JRock Artist EVER to do a SOLO performance in Chile. 2000 tickets sold out instantly!
Performance in Sweden:
The Japanese drum (Wadaiko) and miyavi’s guitars were lost on the way to Finland. After a search, we found out that they were left in Sweden. Urgent transportation was needed. The instruments reached the venue just as doors were opening, and the live was held successfully.
JaME Coverage of the Tour:
Popularity: 18% [?]
Kay is the English version manager, aka editor in chief/executive editor and one of JaME’s vice-presidents. Between her job, second BA studies and random language courses, she’s able to find time to shout at her darling team members and write an article or two once in a while. If that isn’t enough, she runs a JRock company in her home country and occasionally organizes concerts of well-known Japanese rock acts.
Although she got into Japanese music through visual kei, she has now moved onto different sorts of music such as pop, alternative/indie rock and will talk your ears off about anything related to reggae in Japan. More information on this creature can be found at 
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うわー!
Busy busy busy!
I’m SO thankful that I got to see you in LA!
Your performance was FUCKIN SAIKO!
My neck still hurts from headbanging
I thought my summer was crazy
but you beat me!
I hope all is well!
Tell Tyko’s little one I send my love!
Baiyonara!
I saw Miyavi in Chile! the first Jrocker in my country
It was an amazing performance, people was totally crazy, including me hehe
Hope I have the chance to see him again… I just wanna come back in time to relive my best May 21st!!!
WHHAAAAAAAAAAT!? miyavi was in portugal and i didnt knew it? buaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!!! do you know if he’ll come to portugal again???? i really wanted to see him in a concert -_-’
Pikii-chan: no, miyavi never went to Portugal! He did go to Brazil though, they speak Portuguese there as well.
i’m portuguese lol xD
and now he did, i went to see him in barcelona in 2009 and now in lisbon <3 but thanks for the information :3