Sumo Dinner Show in Tokyo: Which Meal, Which Room

If dinner is part of the plan, choose the room carefully: the Shinjuku and Shibuya sumo shows include one drink and no food. The shows that serve a real meal are in Asakusa, Ginza, at Tokyo Tower and in a former stable building in Kiyosumi, and a few in Ryogoku serve lunch instead.

For most people the best sumo dinner show in Tokyo is the Asakusa Sumo Club’s evening. You eat all-you-can-eat chicken hot pot and Japanese dishes at tables around a real ring while the wrestlers perform, with one drink and a geisha dance, over two hours. It holds 4.8/5 from 8,640 reviews, and a seat costs $102.

The dinner shows, one by one

Asakusa: hot pot around the ring

The Asakusa Sumo Club is a restaurant with a ring at its centre, about 230 m from Senso-ji and 560 m from Asakusa Station (straight-line). The meal is chanko-style chicken hot pot, the dish sumo stables cook for their wrestlers, served all-you-can-eat with other Japanese dishes. The MC commentates in English and Japanese, a few guests are drawn to challenge a wrestler, and a geisha dance is part of the evening.

Its premium branch on the same block, the Asakusa Sumo Club Annex, is the smaller, more intimate version: a wagyu sukiyaki bento with chanko hot pot and a matcha dessert, a geisha dance to open, and seat classes, with tempura added in the upper two. It costs $102 and holds 4.7/5 from 1,019 reviews.

Tokyo Tower: show, set dinner and the view

On the fifth floor of Foot Town, the building at the base of Tokyo Tower, a sumo show comes with a Japanese set meal, one drink and traditional performances: oiran, a lion dance and classical instruments. It holds about 170 seats. This is the pick if you want the tower’s observation decks in the same evening, and it costs $102.

Ginza: kaiseki dinner, or the show alone

In Ginza 1-chome, a show on a full-size ring comes with a kaiseki-style set meal, an on-site sake bar and vegan, halal, gluten-free and children’s menus on request. Two things to weigh: the ticket is non-refundable, and its rating is lower than the others here (4.5/5 from 60 reviews). It costs $121.

Ginza also has a show without dinner, a few minutes from Ginza Station: 1.5 hours with former professional wrestlers and an interactive ticket that guarantees time in the ring, from $57 in current promotion (usually $96).

Kiyosumi: the Tokyo Sumo Room

Sold as the Tokyo Sumo Room, this show runs in a former stable building in Kiyosumi, about 370 m from Kiyosumi-shirakawa Station and 1.6 km south of the Ryogoku Kokugikan. The meal is the catch: all-you-can-eat chicken hot pot comes with the VIP option only, so check which ticket you are buying. It starts from $64 in current promotion (usually $89). tokyosumoexperience.com covers this evening in more depth.

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Sumo lunch shows

Lunch is the quieter option, and the one built around families. Ryogoku, the district around the national sumo arena, has two:

• The family sumo workshop and live show with lunch: two hours with former professional wrestlers, about 440 m from Ryogoku Station. Everyone learns the shiko and teppo basics, watches a full-speed match and can challenge a wrestler, then eats a mini chanko hot pot, with vegetarian, vegan, halal and allergy options. From $96 in current promotion (usually $120).
• The sumo experience with chanko nabe and mochi: you watch the wrestlers while eating chanko, try sumo on the ring and pound mochi with them for dessert. From $92 in current promotion (usually $102).

If lunch is the meal and getting into the ring is the point, our own sumo training morning is the full version: training and bouts with two former professional wrestlers in a former stable, then chanko lunch with them.

What the food really is

Chanko nabe is the hot pot sumo wrestlers eat in their stables: a large pot of broth with chicken, vegetables and tofu, eaten with rice. Chicken is traditional because a chicken stands on two legs, as a wrestler should. At the dinner shows it is the casual end of the menu. A few recent reviewers of the Asakusa show found the food the weakest part of the evening; if the meal matters most, the Annex’s sukiyaki or the Ginza kaiseki is the more serious dinner.

Make an evening of Asakusa

The Asakusa shows sit a few minutes’ walk from Senso-ji, so the temple at dusk and the show after is the natural order.

Free walking tours in AsakusaTip-based walks with local guides around Senso-ji and old Asakusa: book a free place and pay the guide what the walk was worth at the end.See the walks on GuruWalk →

GuruWalk's Asakusa walks cover the temple district; its Tokyo walks cover the rest of the city.

To walk back after dinner, stay close: hotels in Asakusa put you near the two Asakusa shows, and hotels in Ginza near the Ginza ones.

Show without dinner?

If you would rather eat elsewhere, the Shinjuku sumo show and the Shibuya sumo show are the show-only rooms, 75 to 90 minutes long.