Ryogoku Sumo Town Tour With Lunch
4.9
(29)
🕑 3h 30m
Free cancellation
Go beyond the wrestling ring and take a guided walking tour through Tokyo's Ryogoku—a place known as “Sumo Town." Save yourself the research time and join a Sumo expert guide to learn about the history and culture of sumo wrestlers. Visit sumo-related landmarks, including the Sumo Museum, and see sumo stables from outside while learning about wrestlers' traditions and daily lives.
📍Ryogoku Sta., 1-chōme-4-29 Yokoami, Sumida City, Tokyo 130-0015, Japan
🏢Operated by Arumachi
Highlights
- ✓Explore sumo's history, traditions, and wrestlers' daily lives
- ✓Choose from a small-group or private experience to fit your travel style
- ✓Visit the Sumo Museum when open and see sumo stables from outside
- ✓Enjoy an included chanko-nabe lunch and discover its cultural significance
What you'll see & do
- ✓Drop in for a short visit at the famous stable, and look at the sumo stable from outside where sumo wrestlers live and train.
- ✓Visit this shinto shrine where the founder of sumo is enshrined. Learn from the guide how he instigated sumo 1500 years ago; how the sumo rules have been refined to take a form as of now over years; how a ring entering ceremony is held here when a new grand champion (Yokozuna) comes into being; that Japan Sumo Association visits it to pray for a successful tournament 3 times a year.
- ✓View the sumo arena from outside, a mecca of sumo where the Grand sumo tournaments are held three times a year. Learn from your guide lots of interesting stories this sumo-dedicated arena has including its overall structure, drum tower, and banners.
- ✓Feel the atmosphere of old Edo (as Tokyo was called before). See a full-scale sumo ring. Learn from the guide so many stories about sumo observing the ring up close.
- ✓Located at Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo’s main sumo arena, the museum focuses on preserving and presenting the history and traditions of sumo. * The sumo museum is not open to visitors during the grand sumo tournaments and while its exhibits are changed. During that period, the guide will take you to alternative sumo-related landmarks.
- ✓Kasugano Stable (Kasugano-beya) is one of the most historically significant sumo stables. A sumo stable is a communal home where wrestlers train, eat, and live together according to the customs and strict hierarchy of professional sumo. Even seeing this stable from outside helps understand that sumo is not simply a sport performed in an arena, but a way of life lived every day.
- ✓See the venue of the sumo tournaments held during the edo (samurai) period. Learn the social status of wrestlers; how the tournaments were held and looked like during the pre-modern era.
- ✓We will take you to one of the best chanko-nabe restaurants in town. Enjoy this nutrient hot-pot dish which is in the centerpiece of sumo wrestlers’ diet to gain weight and muscles to build their bodies. Learn from your guide all about sumo while having the lunch.
What's included
- ✓Chanko-nabe lunch
What's not included
- ✓Alcoholic Beverages
- ✓Hotel pick-up and drop-off
- ✓Actual sumo viewing like practice or matches
Good to know
Public transportation options are available nearby
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation policy
- •A full refund will apply if you cancel more than 24 hours before the activity start time.
- •No refund is possible if you cancel less than 24 hours before the activity start time.
Free cancellation
🔒 Secure checkout
from
£ 81.00
Ryogoku Sumo Town Tour With Lunch
4.9
(29)
🕑 3h 30m
Free cancellation
Go beyond the wrestling ring and take a guided walking tour through Tokyo's Ryogoku—a place known as “Sumo Town." Save yourself the research time and join a Sumo expert guide to learn about the history and culture of sumo wrestlers. Visit sumo-related landmarks, including the Sumo Museum, and see sumo stables from outside while learning about wrestlers' traditions and daily lives.
📍Ryogoku Sta., 1-chōme-4-29 Yokoami, Sumida City, Tokyo 130-0015, Japan
🏢Operated by Arumachi
Highlights
- ✓Explore sumo's history, traditions, and wrestlers' daily lives
- ✓Choose from a small-group or private experience to fit your travel style
- ✓Visit the Sumo Museum when open and see sumo stables from outside
- ✓Enjoy an included chanko-nabe lunch and discover its cultural significance
What you'll see & do
- ✓Drop in for a short visit at the famous stable, and look at the sumo stable from outside where sumo wrestlers live and train.
- ✓Visit this shinto shrine where the founder of sumo is enshrined. Learn from the guide how he instigated sumo 1500 years ago; how the sumo rules have been refined to take a form as of now over years; how a ring entering ceremony is held here when a new grand champion (Yokozuna) comes into being; that Japan Sumo Association visits it to pray for a successful tournament 3 times a year.
- ✓View the sumo arena from outside, a mecca of sumo where the Grand sumo tournaments are held three times a year. Learn from your guide lots of interesting stories this sumo-dedicated arena has including its overall structure, drum tower, and banners.
- ✓Feel the atmosphere of old Edo (as Tokyo was called before). See a full-scale sumo ring. Learn from the guide so many stories about sumo observing the ring up close.
- ✓Located at Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo’s main sumo arena, the museum focuses on preserving and presenting the history and traditions of sumo. * The sumo museum is not open to visitors during the grand sumo tournaments and while its exhibits are changed. During that period, the guide will take you to alternative sumo-related landmarks.
- ✓Kasugano Stable (Kasugano-beya) is one of the most historically significant sumo stables. A sumo stable is a communal home where wrestlers train, eat, and live together according to the customs and strict hierarchy of professional sumo. Even seeing this stable from outside helps understand that sumo is not simply a sport performed in an arena, but a way of life lived every day.
- ✓See the venue of the sumo tournaments held during the edo (samurai) period. Learn the social status of wrestlers; how the tournaments were held and looked like during the pre-modern era.
- ✓We will take you to one of the best chanko-nabe restaurants in town. Enjoy this nutrient hot-pot dish which is in the centerpiece of sumo wrestlers’ diet to gain weight and muscles to build their bodies. Learn from your guide all about sumo while having the lunch.
What's included
- ✓Chanko-nabe lunch
What's not included
- ✓Alcoholic Beverages
- ✓Hotel pick-up and drop-off
- ✓Actual sumo viewing like practice or matches
Good to know
Public transportation options are available nearby
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation policy
- •A full refund will apply if you cancel more than 24 hours before the activity start time.
- •No refund is possible if you cancel less than 24 hours before the activity start time.
Free cancellation
🔒 Secure checkout
from
£ 81.00