Watching Sumo– tax –
Tickets, venues, seats, and what a day at a tournament is like.
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How to Watch Sumo Live: NHK World, ABEMA and Start Times
The simplest way to watch live sumo from outside Japan is NHK World-Japan, which is free and in English. It shows a 27-minute highlights programme of every top-division bout each day, and broadcasts four days of each tournament live. Ins... -
Grand Sumo Tournament Schedule: All Six Basho
Professional sumo runs on a fixed calendar. There are six tournaments a year, always in the odd-numbered months, each 15 days long, and each starting and ending on a Sunday. The Japan Sumo Association publishes the sumo tournament schedu... -
Ryogoku Kokugikan: Inside Japan’s National Sumo Hall
Ryogoku Kokugikan is the building where professional sumo lives. Three of the six annual tournaments are held here, in a hall of 11,098 seats in the Yokoami district of Tokyo, two minutes on foot from Ryogoku Station. It also holds a mus... -
How to Buy Sumo Tickets in Japan: Prices, Seats and Timing
The general sale of sumo tickets for the November 2026 tournament in Fukuoka runs from 10 a.m. Japan time on September 19, 2026, until 5 p.m. on each day of the tournament. One website sells them in English: Ticket Oosumo English, which ...
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