ILLIT have announced their first concert tour, 2026 1ST TOUR : ILLIT LIVE ‘PRESS START♥︎’, marking a clear transition from fan meetings to structured live touring just under two years into their career.

PRESS START♥︎ marks ILLIT’s first proper tour following 2025 ILLIT Glitter Day, their debut fan-meeting run, which began at Seoul’s Olympic Hall in June 2025 and later expanded across Japan before returning to Seoul for an encore. Where Glitter Day centred on access and fan connection, this new tour reframes ILLIT as a touring act in formation.

The tour opens in Seoul in March before moving through a Japan-heavy run across summer, closing in Hong Kong in August. While compact in scale, the routing feels deliberate rather than tentative. This is not an attempt to rush into arena-level headline tour territory, but a controlled first step into a sustained live presence.

There is a notable gap between the Seoul dates and the start of the Japan leg, shaping the tour as a phased rollout and giving it a staggered structure rather than a continuous run. Japan – where ILLIT has already demonstrated strong early traction – anchors the bulk of the schedule, with multiple cities and repeat dates across summer.

Venue choices for the tour have drawn some online scrutiny due to their size, but the progression tells a clearer story. The tour begins in more intimate theatres before landing at Toyota Arena Tokyo – the city's newly opened arena with a capacity of around 10K – countering claims that the group is being held back. For a group still under two years old, this structure seemingly prioritises performance development and consistency.

Elsewhere, the absence of wider global stops positions PRESS START♥︎ as a focused regional run, prioritising markets where ILLIT are already active as a live act, reflecting a measured approach to live touring at this stage of ILLIT’s career.

Crucially, this kind of routing allows ILLIT to build a genuine live history rather than skipping ahead to headline-scale expectations. Multiple nights in key cities and varied room sizes give space for setlists to evolve, performances to tighten, and group chemistry onstage to deepen – everything that a first tour needs to accomplish. These are the conditions under which touring acts are actually formed – not announced – and PRESS START♥︎ leans into that process rather than rushing past it.

The title – PRESS START♥︎ – is telling, and frames their first run as a test of live demand, stamina, and audience response, ahead of any wider expansion.

2026 1ST TOUR : ILLIT LIVE ‘PRESS START♥︎’ — Dates

• SEOUL, South Korea
  

March 14–15, 2026 (Ticketlink Live Arena)

• AICHI, Japan
  

June 13–14, 2026 (Aichi Prefectural Art Theater)

• OSAKA, Japan
  

June 20–21, 2026 (Orix Theater)

• FUKUOKA, Japan
  

June 29–30, 2026 (Fukuoka Sunpalace)

• HYOGO (Kobe), Japan

July 18–19, 2026 (Glion Arena Kobe)

• TOKYO, Japan

July 23, 25–26, 2026 (Toyota Arena Tokyo)

• HONG KONG

August 22, 2026 (AsiaWorld-Expo, Hall 10)