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Hoping to get some Sumo tickets in a few hours. Anyone ever been? |
Visiting Japan • Page 13
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Armoured_Bear 31,233 posts
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One_Vurfed_Gwrx 4,467 posts
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Registered 15 years agoYeah, I went to the Tokyo Sumo in 2013. It was something I always planned to see while living there but I always ended up on a trip to the wrong city whenever it was on. I thought it was quite interesting. Managed to get some pretty good seats too (good for the cheaper upstairs area that is). You basically get a day pass to come and go as you please. And the shows are done in order from the lower ranks to the higher ranks. The arena is quiet in the mornings and gets busier as the day goes on. Personally, I watched a lot of the beginners then went for aje xtended lunch/arcade break to Akihabara and came back in time for the top divisions. It was an interesting day. -
Armoured_Bear 31,233 posts
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Registered 10 years agoOne_Vurfed_Gwrx wrote:
Cheers, I booked tickets in Section A upstairs (in Fukuoka), about 40 quid rather than 100 for a box downstairs. I didn't get assigned a seat number though, not sure if that happens when I collect the ticket or if it's free allocation in that block.
Yeah, I went to the Tokyo Sumo in 2013. It was something I always planned to see while living there but I always ended up on a trip to the wrong city whenever it was on. I thought it was quite interesting. Managed to get some pretty good seats too (good for the cheaper upstairs area that is). You basically get a day pass to come and go as you please. And the shows are done in order from the lower ranks to the higher ranks. The arena is quiet in the mornings and gets busier as the day goes on. Personally, I watched a lot of the beginners then went for aje xtended lunch/arcade break to Akihabara and came back in time for the top divisions. It was an interesting day.
Either way, I'm excited! -
elstoof 28,125 posts
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Registered 16 years agoWish I didn’t have to come back the other day. Soon as I landed I was out to dinner with a load of friends, the meal started with horse sashimi which wasn’t really my favourite. The rest was good though. I also went to a ramen joint where you order from a vending machine then sit in a viewless cubicle where you can concentrate fully on flavour, the food pops out of a hatch in front of you. Went to my favourite yakiniku and had incredible wagyu as well as the guts. Can’t wait to go back in the spring, so many good restaurants and bars and things to do in Tokyo, gonna stretch it out and take a trip outside I think -
fontgeeksogood 12,913 posts
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Registered 3 years agoDid you go to that place where the waitresses shit on a plate for you -
elstoof 28,125 posts
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Registered 16 years agoIt wasn’t the place, but they’re such an accommodating people that she did it anyway for this gaijin -
fontgeeksogood 12,913 posts
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Registered 3 years agoI suppose any restaurant does that if you're enough of a cunt patron -
elstoof 28,125 posts
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Registered 16 years agoShe asked I knew a Scottish man -
Armoured_Bear wrote:
I hadn't planned mine so bought face to face from the ticket booth in front of the stadium and got offered a specific front seat if I paid cash as someone had cancelled (possibly cheaper that way too IIRC). It had a fixed seat number but no idea how the Fukuoka stadium works.
One_Vurfed_Gwrx wrote:
Cheers, I booked tickets in Section A upstairs (in Fukuoka), about 40 quid rather than 100 for a box downstairs. I didn't get assigned a seat number though, not sure if that happens when I collect the ticket or if it's free allocation in that block.
Yeah, I went to the Tokyo Sumo in 2013. It was something I always planned to see while living there but I always ended up on a trip to the wrong city whenever it was on. I thought it was quite interesting. Managed to get some pretty good seats too (good for the cheaper upstairs area that is). You basically get a day pass to come and go as you please. And the shows are done in order from the lower ranks to the higher ranks. The arena is quiet in the mornings and gets busier as the day goes on. Personally, I watched a lot of the beginners then went for aje xtended lunch/arcade break to Akihabara and came back in time for the top divisions. It was an interesting day.
Either way, I'm excited!
Advantage of not being in the expensive seats by the ringside is you have zero chance of having to dodge a flying sumo wrestler in your seat...
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