Sumo Museum

Area

Ryogoku

Category

Museum / Gallery Educational tour

The Sumo Museum is located on the first floor of Ryogoku Kokugikan. This museum offers a display of props and items used in real sumo wrestling tournaments by real sumo wrestlers, such as the mawashi (the thick rope around their abdomen) and the gunbai (the fan-like object in the referee’s hands). The museum offers English pamphlets as well for 100 yen.

Basic Information

Address

1-3-28 Yokoami, Sumida-ku, Tokyo

Phone

03-3623-5111

Hours

10:00a.m. - 04:30p.m.(last entry at 04:00p.m.)

Closed

Saturday・Sunday
Year-end hoildays

Fee

Free

Website

http://www.sumo.or.jp/KokugikanSumoMuseum/

Access

FromShinjuku Station

JR Chuo-Sobu Line / for Tsudanuma
→ 【Ryogoku Sta.】from the West Exit → about a 2-minute walk

FromTokyo Station

JR Yamanote Line / for Shinjuku
→ 【Yoyogi Sta.】
Chuo Sobu Line Local Service / for Tsudanuma
→ 【Ryogoku Sta.】from the West Exit → about a 2-minute walk

FromNarita Airport

Skyliner / for Keisei Ueno
→ 【Nippori Sta.】
JR Yamanote Line / for Ueno
→ 【Akihabara Sta.】
JR Chuo-Sobu Line Local Service / for Chiba
→ 【Ryogoku Sta.】from the West Exit → about a 2-minute walk

FromHaneda Airport

Tokyo Monorail  / for Hamamatsucho 
→ 【Hamamatsucho Sta.】
JR Keihin Tohoku Rapid Line / for Omiya
→ 【Akihabara Sta.】
JR Chuo-Sobu Line Local Service / for Chiba
→ 【Ryogoku Sta.】from the West Exit → about a 2-minute walk

Tags of this spot

Traditional Culture