Hiroshima: Sumo Wrestling Provincial Tour & ExpertGuide

Enjoy Hiroshima’s sumo provincial tour from 1F row1-chair seats in a group of up to 5. Relax with snacks and drinks, learn from your guide, meet wrestlers, take photos, and even get autographs.
○ Group Session (8:30-14:30)

【1】 Meeting at 8:30 AM
Meet your friendly English-speaking guide at Ushida Station. Together, you will walk approximately 3 minutes to the venue.

Detailed meeting-point information will be provided no later than 2 days before the event.

【2】 Enter the arena at approximately 9:00 AM
Enter the Maeda Housing Higashi Ward Sports Center and experience the distinctive atmosphere of a regional sumo tour.

Your guide will explain the history, traditions, rules, and highlights of sumo, helping you understand everything taking place inside the arena.

The morning program is expected to include:

・The opening drum performance
・Photo opportunities
・Open practice by professional sumo wrestlers
・Children’s sumo

Regional tours offer a much more relaxed and intimate atmosphere than official tournaments. Wrestlers and spectators move through the same venue, giving you the chance to see professional sumo wrestlers up close. You may also have opportunities to take photographs, ask for autographs, or greet the wrestlers, although these interactions cannot be guaranteed.

【3】 Watch from Row 1 of the first-floor chair section
Enjoy the event from Row 1 of the first-floor chair section on the mukojomen, opposite the main viewing side. Row 1 is the front of this chair section, not a tamari or ringside seat. Tamari and box seats are located between this section and the dohyo. From your chair, you can see the entire ring and the wrestlers’ entrance route on the mukojomen side.

After arriving at your seat, you are free to explore the venue and return whenever you wish. Your guide will help you identify the day’s most important moments.

Around 11:30 AM, matches featuring lower-ranked wrestlers are expected to begin.

From approximately 1:00 PM, enjoy traditional sumo entertainment that may include:

・Shokkiri, a humorous demonstration of forbidden sumo techniques
・Sumo folk songs performed by wrestlers
・Traditional drumming
・Topknot dressing or ceremonial rope-tying demonstrations

At approximately 1:40 PM, watch the ring-entering ceremonies of the top-division wrestlers and yokozuna, followed by the most exciting matches featuring the highest-ranked wrestlers.

Feel the power of the wrestlers and share in the excitement of an authentic regional sumo event.

【4】 Tour ends at approximately 2:30 PM
After the final match and traditional bow-twirling ceremony, the experience concludes at the venue.

Please note that the event schedule and performances are subject to change. The tour may finish slightly earlier or later depending on the official program.

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