Akinomaki 41,828 Posted June 14 (edited) On 09/06/2024 at 08:46, Akinomaki said: Again the early PR event for the Kyushu basho: touch the belly of a popular rikisihi, today at the canal city Hakata in Fukuoka https://canalcity.co.jp/news/event/3998 Of course with the Kyushu locals Sadanoumi, Shodai and Hiradoumi, plus the everywhere popular Ura - and new ex-Tenkaiho (Kumamoto) - possibly in the team now - in for Ichiyamamoto, who still appears on the PR photos. With also Kyushu team oyakata Shiranui and Onogawa (likely the one plans this event). First talk, then singing, then the new Kyushu chief Asakayama, then the touching. live stream: for 200 via the fan club and 50 via the Canal City facility. Advance sales start on Sept. 14th, the pre-advance ticket lotteries on August 16th also a poster contest again Same procedure as every year now: belly touch event in June - "most popular belly" Ura, local bellies Sadanoumi, Hiradoumi and Shodai, and new the most popular foreign born belly Tamawashi First talk&fun, start at 31:30m: Tamawashi, Hiradoumi, Ura, Shodai, Sadanoumi, in the end a short visit by Asakayama and then the belly touch main part General sales start Sep. 20th, the basho on Nov. 9th Poster campaign contest https://poster.sumo.or.jp/ last year's entry in full https://poster.sumo.or.jp/gallery/gallery2024/ and later the posters for each prefecture in Kyushu https://www.sumo.or.jp/Watching/guide/Nov/room/626/#poster - ATM the posters for each pref. in the vicinity of Aichi - those for which Nagoya is the go-touchi basho, Onosato's Ishikawa included Edited June 14 by Akinomaki Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 41,828 Posted August 20 (edited) On 14/06/2025 at 21:56, Akinomaki said: General sales start Sep. 20th, the basho on Nov. 9th Poster campaign contest https://poster.sumo.or.jp/ last year's entry in full https://poster.sumo.or.jp/gallery/gallery2024/ and later the posters for each prefecture in Kyushu https://www.sumo.or.jp/Watching/guide/Nov/room/626/#poster - ATM the posters for each pref. in the vicinity of Aichi - those for which Nagoya is the go-touchi basho, Onosato's Ishikawa included No posters now in the site, the data are from the Natsu basho Kyushu PR and sales really start early, and the ticket lotteries for the fanclub members are already about to start, they all go on for 4 days. On the 22nd that for those who pay big, Y/O/S course members, on the 29th that for also makuuchi course members. The one for the general public on sumo.pia starts on Sep. 5th, those 3 with 4 days time to pay for the ticket after the announcement of the lottery results, 2 days after the lotteries close. No time limit at the lottery on ticket.pia starting on Sep.12th, results on the 17th - and on the Sep. 20th, day 7 of the Aki basho, the general sales start - and usually end now. With the new phone authentication, maybe tickets are available a bit longer https://sumo.pia.jp/sumo11.jsp I don't know if there are any security checks like this for the group applications, they can buy tickets much earlier, for Kyushu the sales for groups (of 12 or more) started on July 1st, web registration possible https://dantai-sumo.an.r.appspot.com/?name=十一月場所&year=2025 I guess the spammers mainly get their tickets from there, seems to be easy to include anybody in such a group Edited August 20 by Akinomaki Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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Akinomaki 41,828 Posted September 11 (Way) Before the Kyushu basho, chief Kaio and members of his Kyushu team were at the city hall of Fukuoka for the obligatory PR call - general sales start in about a week o o 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 41,828 Posted September 27 On 11/09/2025 at 21:59, Akinomaki said: (Way) Before the Kyushu basho, chief Kaio and members of his Kyushu team were at the city hall of Fukuoka for the obligatory PR call - general sales start in about a week On the 26th, Kaio with 3 members of his team was at the Fukuoka pref. office for the 2nd fix PR call - tickets were sold out in an hour and a half on day 7 of the Aki basho. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 41,828 Posted October 3 (edited) On 28/09/2025 at 00:00, Akinomaki said: Kaio with 3 members of his team was at the Fukuoka pref. office for the 2nd fix PR call - tickets were sold out in an hour and a half on day 7 of the Aki basho. Today the gomen-fuda for the basho was installed at the venue, chief Kaio with his team did the PR photo oo o o Asakayama/Kaio is happy that the tickets sold out on the day, the last time that happened was 1995, during the Waka-Taka boom, when he was active (sekiwake) Edited October 3 by Akinomaki 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 41,828 Posted October 28 (edited) The 2 yokozuna with Kyushu chief Kaio did the PR call to the governor and to the mayor of Fukuoka today not embeddable: youtube.com/watch?v=WAsSj1ZmZlA o oo o o o o oo o o o with the governor o at the city hall o o Edited October 29 by Akinomaki Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
