In the end, very late goals from V-Varen on 87 and 94 minutes gave them a 2-0 win that did not tell the story of the match but left no one on the home side concerned as Gamba marched on in the Levain Cup 4-3 on aggregate.
The quarter-finals of the tournament will be played across two legs in early September, when the four 2019 ACL-qualified J.League clubs will join the draw.
Team - Hayashi, Yonekura, Suganuma, Aoyama, Oh, Konno (Fujiharu, 46), Ko, Kurata (Fujimoto, 46), Concha, Ademilson (Meshino, 63), Watanabe
Attendance - 5,708