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Authentic Sumo Show & Experience in a Local Tokyo Street
Two things you cannot get in Shinjuku: a sumo ring anyone can stand on, and a Tokyo neighborhood that is not for tourists.
Professional sumo bars women from the dohyo. Here, anyone can step on it.
Sunamachi Ginza is one of Tokyo's three great shotengai: 140 shops, trading since 1932, still drawing 15,000 locals on a weekday. Come early, buy your street food there, and eat it beside the ring. Food is not included, and that is deliberate.
Then 90 minutes: 30 on how sumo works, 30 watching two former pros fight a few meters away, 30 for your turn.
Taking part is optional. If you try, we provide a changing room, clothes and a real mawashi. You face a wrestler barefoot on the clay. You will lose. That is the point.
Photos on the dohyo after. Max 40. Year-round. English and Japanese.
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Authentic Sumo Show & Experience in a Local Tokyo Street