Asakusa Sumo Club · Asakusa 2-chome
At the Asakusa Sumo Club, a short walk from the temple, retired wrestlers explain the rules, fight a few bouts and take on volunteers while you eat chicken chanko, the hot pot wrestlers live on. A geisha dance opens the show. It's a fun evening after a morning at Senso-ji.
Asakusa Sumo Club holds a 4.8 rating from 1,616 reviews. It is an entertainment show with retired sumo wrestlers, not a training session; the listing itself says to visit a sumo stable elsewhere in Tokyo if you want real morning practice. Here an English-speaking host explains history and rules, the wrestlers demonstrate the moves and fight a few bouts, and some guests get to challenge them, by lottery if too many volunteer.
Dinner is all-you-can-eat chicken chanko-nabe with a Japanese set meal and one free drink; more drinks are extra. A geisha dance comes first, a printed group photo with the wrestlers and the geisha comes at the end, and everyone leaves with a souvenir gift set. Vegetarian and vegan meals are available with two days' notice.
There's no temple time here, but it pairs well with Senso-ji: the club is on the ground floor of the ROCKZA Building in Asakusa 2-chome, two doors from Don Quijote, a few minutes from the temple. Its own website gives opening hours of 12:00 to 22:30.
2-10-12 Asakusa, ground floor, two doors from the Asakusa Don Quijote.
Settle in, order your free drink, then a short geisha performance.
History, rules and rituals from the host, with the wrestlers demonstrating.
Matches, audience challengers in gear, and the hot pot refilled as you go.
A group photo with the wrestlers and the geisha, then the souvenir set.
★★★★★Amazing from start to finish. You will watch a beautiful geisha dance first and then learn about the history and rules of sumo in a very fun and entertaining way. The staff is really helpful!
★★★★★The show was really well done. The food was very good and the service was excellent. [...] The two Sumo wrestlers were fantastic (Asanogaku and Asanokuma)...they put on a great show and really interacted well with the audience.
★★★★★The show had just the right amount of informative facts, witty banter and sumo wrestling. The all you can eat food was filling and tasty, drinks kept flowing quickly and the show was great.
★★★★★You get to see a short Geisha show, learrn about Sumo, see 3 matches all while enjoying an all-you-can-eat meal. The hot pot was some of the best we had while traveling around Tokyo.
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They are retired wrestlers. The listing calls it an entertainment show and suggests a sumo stable elsewhere in Tokyo for real practice.
All-you-can-eat chicken chanko-nabe with a Japanese set meal and one free drink. Vegetarian and vegan meals with two days' notice. More on Asakusa food in our food guide.
On the ground floor of the ROCKZA Building, 2-10-12 Asakusa, two doors from the Asakusa Don Quijote, a few minutes from Senso-ji.
Yes. Reviewers bring kids, and infants aged 0 to 1 join the show free.
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Former wrestlers, a geisha dance and all-you-can-eat chanko hot pot, a short walk from the temple.
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