2021 July 31 - August 1 (Saturday-Sunday)
SHIZUOKA/KANAGAWA
PRICE: ¥10,000/person
Discounts:
- Pay by bank transfer (4%)
- Group of 4+ (5%)
Sumo Watching Event [Box B]
Come let’s watch Japan’s national sport!
The Japanese consider sumo a modern Japanese martial art, though the sport has a history spanning many centuries.
The annual Grand Sumo Tournament is performed outside of the normal league but exciting and fascinating all the same. They will decide the strongest wrestler from competitors of the January league, all in one day.
Before the start of the tournament, famous wrestlers “lecture” young children how to play Sumo. They demonstrate all the winning (and banned) techniques in a very comical way ;p
A truly Japanese cultural experience!
- Event: Sumo Watching
- Date: 2026 February 8 (Sunday)
- Venue: Ryogoku Kokugikan [National Sumo Arena]
- Event time: 11am – 5:30pm
- Meeting time (to pickup your ticket/s): 11am – 12:30pm
- Meeting place (to pickup your ticket/s): Outside JR Ryogoku station (not Oedo Ryogoku station), exit for Ryogoku Kokugikan, by the ticket gate
- Fee inclusion: Entry fee, reserved Box B seat (shared with 3 other people) and organizing fee
- Contact person: To be announced by email
- Event details may vary due to unforeseen circumstances.
- Your ticket/s will be distributed on the day at the meeting spot. Contact name and cellphone will be provided by email two (2) days before the event.
- Tickets are reserved (Box B).
- Box B is shared by 4 people.
- Group of of 4 can have their own Box B (of 4) seats.
- Organization and participation fee are added in the price of the ticket.
- Bring an extra seat cushion or a small stool if you’re not used to traditional Japanese seating (seiza) position.
- Children 4yo and above must pay the full price. Children 3yo and below are free but must not take a seat.
- Tickets are non refundable but transferable.
- Tournament finishes around 5:30pm but you can leave anytime you want.
- There will be special Sumo food (chanko) and drinks for sale in the stadium.
- Oedo Ryogoku station is a 5min walk to the JR Ryogoku station (the meeting spot) in case you need to take the Oedo line.
- Final details will be sent to the participants by email two days before the event.
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