Top Tokyo Shows & Performances - page 3

4-hour tour with Shigeru. Outstanding tour guide. Like taking a tour with my uncle. Professional, knowledgeable, and fun. He helped my family understand the historical and cultural aspects of 4 important sites. Shigeru even helped us purchase metro cards and taught us how to navigate the metro strategically! Recommend highly.

Mahir was awesome. He went above and beyond to make sure this was a great experience for me and my wife. The tour was awesome also. The flexibility Mahir offered us to move stops around or extend time make it so we could get the most out of our day. Highly recommend!!!

Actually, we had a really fun time at the Tokyo Ginza Sumo Experience! I should start by stating that it was just the two of us. We are in our very late 70s/mid 80s… so probably not your “normal” age range…unless you are with your family. Originally, my husband did NOT want to go at all, but I talked him into it. After it was over, he said that he was pleasantly surprised and not just “happy” that he had gone, but “really happy” that he had gone. Now for the show, in a very informative … yet fun way… the emcee explained the history of sumo, the meaning of certain wrestling positions (along with detailed displays of each position by the wrestlers), and the customs, rules, and techniques of the sport which included interaction from the crowd. This included throwing small pillows into the ring and trying to “out-cheer” your opposing team. There were two wrestlers, so there were two teams, and the cheering was quite loud, intense, and exciting. We all were pounding our tables, stomping our feet and yelling at the top of our lungs in support of OUR wrestler…yes, even us old folks…LOL At the end, spectators could volunteer to see if they could “out wrestle” the wrestlers. These “spectators/volunteers” came back on stage wearing “sumo fat suits” …sooo funny. And, of course, at this point, we were all cheering for the fat-suit spectator… (Secretly, I’m regretting that I didn’t give it a try.) Overall, this was a super great experience, and that is coming from somebody that never ever thought, for a New York minute, that I would even be considering going to watch fat men wrestling with their heinies hanging out….LOL Go!!! If my husband, who is super bah-humbug negative enjoyed it, it’s a no brainer. Worth the expense and our time. Now with that being said, once you get there, it's complicated to find. You have to go down steps to what we would classify as a shopping corridor. They are then located shortly on the left. Hope that helps. It was confusing to us old folks as we had decided to walk there from Ginza 6 (10 minute walk).