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November Sumo Tournament tour in Fukuoka (Tickets Included)
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26 Ratings
Fukuoka
Experience the thrill of Sumo in Fukuoka with an expert guide. Enjoy the intense atmosphere, history, and traditions of Japan’s unique sport.
Duration:
3 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
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Fukuoka Kokusai Center - Watch the Japanese national sport, sumo wrestling in Fukuoka with a professional guide!
To ensure that you understand the sumo matches and the sport itself, watch the sumo with a knowledgeable and passionate guide on this tour!
Sumo tournaments take place six times a year, and Fukuoka hosts the tournament in November. Tickets are likely sold out quickly but with our tour, you don’t have to worry about it, as they are included!
We will meet at Fukuoka Kokusai Center at 2:15 PM, and our guide will lead you to Fukuoka convention center, where you can learn about the history and traditions of sumo wrestling, enhancing your experience.
Fukuoka Sumo Tournaments start early, at 8 am, with matches between lower-ranked wrestlers. Stronger wrestlers enter the ring at around 3:30 pm for the dohyo-iri ring-entering ceremony.
The tournament finishes at 6:00 PM.
What's Included
- Local and professional speaking guide
- Sumo tournament Chair B Seat Ticket (distributed by guide on tour date)
Additional Information
Experience Japan’s unique and traditional sport, Sumo, with an expert tour guide. If you’re in Tokyo during January, March, or September, this is a must-see event! (Tournaments are held six times a year: three times in Tokyo, and once each in Osaka, Nagoya, and Fukuoka. Each tournament spans 15 days.)
Meet your English-speaking guide at the Fukuoka Convention Center. Your guide will explain the history, rules, and significance of Sumo before you enter the stadium, and will provide additional insights between matches.
Immerse yourself in the intense and serious atmosphere of the tournament. Feel free to grab some beer, Yakitori (skewers), and other snacks from the vendors inside the stadium to enjoy at your seat. *Please note that food and drinks are not included in this tour.
- Children 3 years old and under can enter for free, however they will not have their own seat and will need to sit on your lap. Children 4 years and up must have their own tickets.
- There is a place in the stadium you can store baby strollers, however they cannot be brought up to the seats.
- This is a group tour. We will leave at 2:30PM sharp, so please make sure to be there on time!
- You will get Chair seats(You cannot choose seats). Your guide will hand out the ticket on the tour date
- Large luggage cannot be brought into the seat.
- If you plan on bringing a child 3 years or younger, please let us know in the “Special Requirements” section
Location
Fukuoka Kokusai Center
[ Meetup ] 2:15 pm Please meet up at Fukuoka Convention Center, in front of stationary flagstaffs.
*We will leave at 2:30 pm sharp, so please make sure to be there on time!(We could not wait!)
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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Z2174hnnickw
Jul 29, 2024
Sumo enthusiast here to say it's worth it. - View was amazing, guides were amazing. I've wanted to see sumo for years and I couldn't have been happier. Thank you Erica and Yayo for making my summer incredible.
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Beverley
Jul 18, 2024
Great experience - Great experience and our guide Kazumi was very nice and friendly. She answered to all of our questions and gave full explenations of the rules of sumo.
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Katelynj871
May 15, 2024
Amazing experience - Exceptional communication from the coordinator when we had gotten lost trying to find the correct entrance. We had the more incredible time experiencing the Sumo tournament thanks to Japan Wonder Travel!
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Amanda_h
Mar 25, 2024
Wonderful guide, great experience - Tam Tam was an amazing guide! Her passion for sumo made the experience even more exciting for us. We learned that sumo is as much a ritual as it is a sport. Without her explanations we likely would not have appreciated the experience as deeply. So, it broke our hearts when another group she was guiding at the same time were less than respectful of Tam Tam's explanations and the venue. At the end of the event we cleaned up their garbage that they left on the floor. If our group could, we would have loved to watch the whole tournament with Tam Tam as she was an absolute delight! The whole event was electric! We had two groups of four and the tour accommodated by seating us all together.
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Netkap
Jul 19, 2024
Great! - It was an amazing experience and we enjoyed it very much! Our group guide was very friendly and helpful. The only thing that bothered me was the price we paid for the tickets. The A seat tickets that we got were 5'000 yen per seat (the price was included on the ticket), but we paid them 15'000.00 each, hence 45'000 total. We understand that the company should cover their costs, but charging 3 times more is quite a lot.
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Beth_s
Apr 12, 2024
Good information pack... - Good information pack about the sumo and wrestlers. Timely communication regarding the pickup details. The tour guide was very friendly and helpful.
It will be great if other seat options are available in the future.
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Seaside390804
Mar 24, 2024
Unavoidable - Definitely worth seeing once, good turnover between fights, because their preliminaries between participants can be long but still pleasant to see
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Eric_s
Mar 23, 2024
Great show bad seats - Lots of fun a must see.l, was a highlight of the trip. The guide explained quite a bit so we were able to follow the rules and each match. However the seats were the last row of the arena probably the worst seats in the house. Still a lot of fun
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Ari_b
Mar 24, 2024
Pricey - The sumo wrestling is amazing. I would always recommend that experience. The tour company was a scam. Sumo tickets sold out in seconds on the direct website so we found this group offering tickets with a guide to explain what was going on. The price was $120 per person, and the tickets offered were listed at around $75 on the official Sumo Tournament site. Since they were sold out, I figured it was worth another $50 to get tickets at all, and on top of that to have a guide. Before the tournament we got an email explaining the tickets were higher up than promised, I did not go back to check the price (shame on me). On the day of the tournament we met our guide and were brought to the last row of the auditorium with a group of 20 others. the tickets were $35 face value, so they charged us $85 per person to share a guide with 20 others in the back of the auditorium. We were pissed! As I mentioned, the sumo tournament is a great experience, and I really couldn't find another way to get tickets, so if you want to go, do your best to comparison shop and find the best deal!
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Ejoyce2017
Mar 25, 2024
Very disappointing value for Osaka sumo tour. - I do not recommend this tour as it is not worth the price of $120 per person. Four of us attended and we were informed that there would be about 8 per group and that we would get S class seats. There were about 16 in the group and we ended up with B class seats at the very back of the auditorium - they made a mistake and by the time they told us the whole event was sold out so we could not buy our own tickets. The guides did their best but could not really communicate about what was going on effectively due to the large number of people. There were 2 groups sitting together. We wished we have bought tickets at the time of being released and reading around the sumo rules ourselves.
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