TWICE's 'THIS IS FOR' World Tour Arrives in Europe: The 360-Degree Stage, the Eight-City Run, and the London O2 Finale

On May 9, 2026, TWICE walked onto the stage at MEO Arena in Lisbon — and made history twice over. The Lisbon date opened the first European arena leg of the TWICE 'THIS IS FOR' World Tour 2026: the nine-member group's sixth world tour and the first time they have performed in Europe at full headlining arena capacity. With eleven shows across eight cities and a final night at London's O2 Arena on June 4, the TWICE THIS IS FOR World Tour Europe leg is also one of the most structurally ambitious K-pop productions the continent has seen — built around a 360-degree in-the-round stage designed with Moment Factory that places every audience member inside the show rather than in front of it.

For the 'THIS IS FOR' World Tour, TWICE collaborated with Moment Factory — the Montreal-based creative studio behind landmark live productions for U2, Nine Inch Nails, and several Super Bowl halftime shows — to build a stage format unlike anything previously deployed in a K-pop world tour. Every European arena on the tour has been reconfigured to a 360-degree in-the-round layout: the stage occupies the centre of the room, audience sections surround it on all sides, and the visual design — screens, lighting rigs, projection surfaces — wraps the full perimeter. The effect is not a concert where a crowd watches a stage. It is a concert where a crowd is inside a production.

The practical consequence for fans is that there is no substandard vantage point — and no position from which the full visual experience is invisible. TWICE's choreography has been specifically reworked for the 360-degree format: formations designed to read completely from any angle, sequences built to travel across the full stage circle rather than front-face a single orientation. For a group whose choreographic identity has always been defined by geometric precision and large-group formation work, the format represents a creative challenge they have addressed with evident care. Multiple attendees at the Lisbon and Paris shows have reported the staging as the most immersive K-pop concert experience they have encountered.

The European leg opened May 9 in Lisbon at the MEO Arena and moves through eight cities: Lisbon, Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Berlin, Munich, Stockholm, and London. The London finale at The O2 Arena on June 4 closes the run — at The O2's 20,000-capacity configuration, the largest single TWICE show of the European leg. Across all eleven dates, the setlist runs approximately 35 to 40 songs across four acts and lasts around two hours and forty minutes, with TWICE performing material spanning their decade-long discography alongside songs from their fourth studio album 'THIS IS FOR.'

The setlist architecture gives audiences both the catalogue depth they have waited years to hear live and the coherence of the album era that motivated the tour. Act I opens with 'THIS IS FOR' and 'Strategy' before building through 'MAKE ME GO,' 'SET ME FREE,' 'I CAN'T STOP ME,' and 'MOONLIGHT SUNRISE.' Act II shifts into the energetic mid-show section — 'MARS,' 'I GOT YOU,' 'The Feels,' 'CRY FOR ME,' 'HELL IN HEAVEN,' 'RIGHT HAND GIRL.' Act III delivers individual member solo stages alongside the nine-member unit performance 'TAKEDOWN.' Act IV closes the show with the sequence that has become the tour's emotional finale: 'FANCY,' 'What Is Love?,' 'YES or YES,' 'Dance the Night Away,' and the closing track 'ONE SPARK.'

The 'THIS IS FOR' World Tour is the sixth in TWICE's career — the longest and most geographically expansive they have undertaken. The full run encompasses 78 shows beginning in late 2025 and running through June 2026. The North American leg ran from January 9 in Vancouver to April 17 in Austin, Texas, covering 26 dates across major arena markets including Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Dallas, and Atlanta. The European leg represents a structural commitment to a market that K-pop has historically treated as a touring afterthought: eleven shows, eight countries, and venues at the level of The O2 and the Accor Arena in Paris signal that TWICE — and their label JYPE — now regard Europe as a primary tour destination rather than an extension stop.

The timing is significant. The fourth studio album 'THIS IS FOR' carries the personal directness of a milestone release: a declaration addressed to the group's fanbase, ONCE, after a decade of shared history. With TWICE now a decade into their career, the world tour translates that emotional weight into live performance — and the first time European ONCE are experiencing it at this scale makes the current leg feel like a corrective to years of geography. For fans who have followed the group through every era, hearing 'What Is Love?,' 'Dance the Night Away,' and 'FANCY' on the same bill as the 'THIS IS FOR' material, in a 360-degree room with no bad view, is the kind of concert that becomes a fixed point in how they remember the group.