Where In The World Is Lance?: I am in Japan and loving it (Sumo Rocks)

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I am in Japan and loving it (Sumo Rocks)

(blog hoppers-look below for the blog hop post)

So after a long hiatus, I am back to my blog. I was up at 5 am and that is so not me. But only in Japan, I am a morning person at least for the first week. I got here a couple of nights ago and went right to my hotel to sleep my first night. Then I woke up early and headed to the Sumo Tournament. It is Day 6 out of 15 and I LOVED IT.

I took the subway from my hotel to the Sumo event and as I got off the subway I wasn't sure exactly where to go and then I saw a Sumo in his ??? and then another and then another. Sumo were everywhere. So I just followed them to the stadium.

I got there early in the day. Sumo is an all day event that lasts from about 8:30Am until about 6pm when the Grand Champions wrestle. I learned so much about it. First of all, the seats are so uncomfortable. You sit on the floor with a pillow. A really thin pillow. As a westerner, I am so unused to sitting like that and after a day of it, I just began to hurt. The tickets were relatively cheap. General admission was about $25 and ring side went up to about $200 for ringside. The cool thing was for most of the day you can sit ringside and watch it until about 4PM when the top wrestlers come out. I had Sumo Soup for lunch and that was fun and an adventure.

More to come about my Sumo Adventure but for now I have to leave to teach at Sakura in Tokyo.

Posted by Lance at 02:58 PM | Permalink

Comments

Next time you'll have to take your own pillow!!!

Posted by: Stacy Rodriguez | September 18, 2009 at 07:13 PM

That sounds like so much fun! I was glad to see the Sumo fella wearing a kimono (?) - at first the picture in my head was all these sumo guys running around the subway in those tiny 'thongs' they wear in the ring :)

Posted by: Sue McGettigan | September 19, 2009 at 08:09 AM

Sumo does ROCK!! I love watching matches on TV on my comfy couch.
Hope you are feeling better.

Posted by: Rose Ann in oHIo | September 19, 2009 at 07:07 PM

Sounds like you're having fun. I've been having fun hopping around the RP blog hop tonight. Time to put some of the great things I've seen and learned into action with my projects.

Posted by: Pam | September 19, 2009 at 07:35 PM