Akinomaki Posted April 19, 2019 Posted April 19, 2019 (edited) They really are early now: on the 21st starts the application period for the pre-advance ticket sales lottery for Nagoya. Usually this takes place during the previous basho - for Natsu it went on till after senshuraku, but this time the period already ends on day 4 of the basho. Ichinojo did PR this time - these PR videos are with questions to sekitori vid Edited April 19, 2019 by Akinomaki 1
Akinomaki Posted April 19, 2019 Author Posted April 19, 2019 (edited) The big ticket sales battle takes place during the Natsu basho - not as usual on a Saturday, but on day 12, Thursday, 10 a.m. - till 12:00h no option to select the seat location, only the type of ticket. http://sumo.pia.jp/sumo07.jsp They also have changed the options to pay: so far you could buy a ticket and select "payment at a convenience store" - in other words, the possibility to abandon the ticket by simply not going there to pay. Now only real credit card and NTT Chokom https://www.chocom.jp/en/ are available, like already for the pre-advance sales lottery. Also, tickets ordered by phone with a special reservation dial have to be payed for within one day or the reservation is canceled - people also here skip their ticket options. http://sumo.pia.jp/info/info-20170116.jsp The same happens with the tamari-seki lottery by phone application (a phone call from within Japan).: people who have won the chance to buy a ticket don't use it. For Natsu this led to a secondary tamari-seki lottery on the pia site, like the usual ticket lottery for other types of tickets. As far as I know it wasn't announced, and it was for just 2 days - I found it by chance and got my 2nd ticket for the basho there, for day 9. They surely will change the tamariseki procedure for Nagoya as well - I have found no mention of it so far. Another change in the pre-advance sales lottery is the possibility to have 6 choices: 6 chances for a ticket on 1 day or tickets for all 6 days, so far it were 3. The reservation period for groups of 20 or more and travel agencies etc. had already started on Feb. 12th https://www.chunichi.co.jp/event/sumo/reservation/agency/ Edited April 21, 2019 by Akinomaki 1
Akinomaki Posted April 21, 2019 Author Posted April 21, 2019 The pre-advance sales application time has started http://sumo.pia.jp/ticket07.jsp New is that now also 1, 2 and 3 person masu seat boxes can be selected (not for A rank)- so far it were only the 4 person masu seats, those in the last row are sold for 2 person use. Unlike promised, only 3 choices and so far no option for multiple visits. 1
Akinomaki Posted May 11, 2019 Author Posted May 11, 2019 (edited) The PR video for Nagoya - pre-advance sales end on Wednesday attached to one special masu seat ticket: a box of rikishi drops (and a bag) - else not on sale o Edited May 12, 2019 by Akinomaki 1
kapil857 Posted May 12, 2019 Posted May 12, 2019 Hi Akinomaki. I have been a sumo fan for 5-6 years now and am planning to travel to Tokyo 2020 as well as the Nagoya Basho before the Olympics. Have already started looking for the best way to get tickets but still have some questions, so would really appreciate any help. 1) I will need 4 chair seats, as my mom and dad can't sit on the floor. So is Arena B actually better than Arena A in Nagoya ?? I understand that Arena A seats are only on the west and east ends of the stadium while Arena B are on the front and back. So Arena B gives me a 50% chance of facing the gyoji whereas Arena A ensures I will be looking at the back of rikishi during the tachiai. How does the front view compare with the fact that Arena B will be farther from the dohyo (cost difference between Arena A and Arena B doesnt matter to me) ?? 2) I also understand that its pretty hot in Nagoya at the time of the Basho. Since the ACs are in the back, is there any significant difference in terms of heat between the towards the back Arena B and the closer Arena A?? 3) Ideally, I would like to go on Senshuraku but seems like it is very tough to get those tickets. Buysumotickets.com often doesn't even bother to sell arena seats on the final weekend and ticket oosumo seems to sell out in seconds. Are there any other options for a non-Japanese?? Any way for a non-Japanese to apply in the lottery ?? Any idea if things like Voyagin or Viagogo work for Senshuraku? Any help would be hugely appreciated. Thanks in advance. On 19/04/2019 at 22:00, Akinomaki said: The big ticket sales battle takes place during the Natsu basho - not as usual on a Saturday, but on day 12, Thursday, 10 a.m. - till 12:00h no option to select the seat location, only the type of ticket. http://sumo.pia.jp/sumo07.jsp They also have changed the options to pay: so far you could buy a ticket and select "payment at a convenience store" - in other words, the possibility to abandon the ticket by simply not going there to pay. Now only real credit card and NTT Chokom https://www.chocom.jp/en/ are available, like already for the pre-advance sales lottery. Also, tickets ordered by phone with a special reservation dial have to be payed for within one day or the reservation is canceled - people also here skip their ticket options. http://sumo.pia.jp/info/info-20170116.jsp The same happens with the tamari-seki lottery by phone application (a phone call from within Japan).: people who have won the chance to buy a ticket don't use it. For Natsu this led to a secondary tamari-seki lottery on the pia site, like the usual ticket lottery for other types of tickets. As far as I know it wasn't announced, and it was for just 2 days - I found it by chance and got my 2nd ticket for the basho there, for day 9. They surely will change the tamariseki procedure for Nagoya as well - I have found no mention of it so far. Another change in the pre-advance sales lottery is the possibility to have 6 choices: 6 chances for a ticket on 1 day or tickets for all 6 days, so far it were 3. The reservation period for groups of 20 or more and travel agencies etc. had already started on Feb. 12th https://www.chunichi.co.jp/event/sumo/reservation/agency/
Akinomaki Posted May 12, 2019 Author Posted May 12, 2019 3 hours ago, kapil857 said: 3) Ideally, I would like to go on Senshuraku but seems like it is very tough to get those tickets. Buysumotickets.com often doesn't even bother to sell arena seats on the final weekend and ticket oosumo seems to sell out in seconds. Are there any other options for a non-Japanese?? Any way for a non-Japanese to apply in the lottery ?? I have never been at the Nagoya venue and can only try to answer this question. To apply in the lottery, you have to be able to cope with the Japanese sumo.pia pages and register with some address in Japan (a hotel might do) - but the chances to get tickets for senshuraku are small there as well. There are also phone numbers from Nagoya organizer Chunichi shimbun, also for the Nagoya chaya - if you speak Japanese, you might be able to reserve tickets there https://www.chunichi.co.jp/event/sumo/ticket-buy.html Pre-order is also possible with the eplus site, from the 14th till the 22nd https://atom.eplus.jp/sys/main.jsp?prm=U=82:P2=003808:P5=0001:P3=0326:P21=001:P7=1:P6=001:P1=0003:P0=GGWC01:P55=//eplus.jp%2Fsf%2Fdetail%2F0038080001-P0030326 There was something in the news last week about making tickets for a variety of events available for foreigners as well - sumo included - but I don't know the details yet.
kapil857 Posted May 12, 2019 Posted May 12, 2019 1 hour ago, Akinomaki said: I have never been at the Nagoya venue and can only try to answer this question. To apply in the lottery, you have to be able to cope with the Japanese sumo.pia pages and register with some address in Japan (a hotel might do) - but the chances to get tickets for senshuraku are small there as well. There are also phone numbers from Nagoya organizer Chunichi shimbun, also for the Nagoya chaya - if you speak Japanese, you might be able to reserve tickets there https://www.chunichi.co.jp/event/sumo/ticket-buy.html Pre-order is also possible with the eplus site, from the 14th till the 22nd https://atom.eplus.jp/sys/main.jsp?prm=U=82:P2=003808:P5=0001:P3=0326:P21=001:P7=1:P6=001:P1=0003:P0=GGWC01:P55=//eplus.jp%2Fsf%2Fdetail%2F0038080001-P0030326 There was something in the news last week about making tickets for a variety of events available for foreigners as well - sumo included - but I don't know the details yet. Thanx...
Akinomaki Posted May 24, 2019 Author Posted May 24, 2019 (edited) On 19/04/2019 at 20:30, Akinomaki said: The big ticket sales battle takes place during the Natsu basho - not as usual on a Saturday, but on day 12, Thursday, 10 a.m. - till 12:00h no option to select the seat location, only the type of ticket. http://sumo.pia.jp/sumo07.jsp Sales started yesterday, with Araiso being on location for PR - no complete sell-out so far, only weekends and the holiday are sold out o o o local TV Edited May 24, 2019 by Akinomaki 1 1
Akinomaki Posted June 11, 2019 Author Posted June 11, 2019 (edited) The Nagoya responsible oyakata team led by Dewanoumi on the 6th opened the ahead office at the location in the Aichi pref. (momentary under the name of) Dolphins Arena o o the others in the team: Iwatomo, Wakamatsu, Tatsutayama and Wakafuji o PR message by Nishikigi vid Edited June 11, 2019 by Akinomaki 3
Akinomaki Posted June 18, 2019 Author Posted June 18, 2019 (edited) About 70 sumo nobori for Nagoya are produced at a traditional shop (all done by manual labor) for dyed goods and flags in Gifu city, established 147 years ago. A nobori is 5.4m high and 90cm wide and colorful.http://hicbc.com/news/detail.asp?id=0004AC34 Local NHK vid: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/lnews/gifu/20190619/3080001904.html http://www.gifu-np.co.jp/news/20190618/20190618-148124.html o ------------------------ PR by Ryuden and Aoiyama vid vid Shibatayama interview for Aichi Sports: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1dvXAfkI5Y Edited June 23, 2019 by Akinomaki 1
Akinomaki Posted June 18, 2019 Author Posted June 18, 2019 (edited) 9 hours ago, Akinomaki said: About 70 sumo nobori for Nagoya are produced at a traditional shop (all done by manual labor) for dyed goods and flags in Gifu city, established 147 years ago. A nobori is 5.4m high and 90cm wide and colorful. 6min. report from local TV http://www.tokai-tv.com/tokainews/article.php?i=87732&date=20190618 The shop makes sumo-nobori for over 70 years Rules for nobori: no black for rikishi names, to avoid the image of a kuro-boshi - ok for heya of tate-gyoji names no red for the names of the nobori sponsor below, to avoid the image of going into the red no (mizu/water-)blue or (cha/tea-)brown at the strips hanging from the gyoji gumbai part: nothing must hinder (mizu o sasu) or disrupt (cha-cha-ire) the bout The characters are written in squares in a way to fill every corner: they represent the masu seat boxes filled with spectators. In a shikona, the strokes are written with a slight rising angle to the right, meant as the wish for an upward movement of the rikishi on the next banzuke. Nobori as a lucky charm are renewed every basho. Edited June 18, 2019 by Akinomaki 1 1
Akinomaki Posted June 19, 2019 Author Posted June 19, 2019 (edited) The 3.5m high (plus pole) gomen-fuda for Nagaoya is in place local NHK vid http://www3.nhk.or.jp/tokai-news/20190619/3000005262.html local TV http://hicbc.com/news/detail.asp?id=0004AC61 the Nagoya team: Wakamatsu, chief Dewanoumi, Tatsutayama, Wakafuji, Iwatomo o Edited June 20, 2019 by Akinomaki 1
Akinomaki Posted June 25, 2019 Author Posted June 25, 2019 (edited) Yusho winner Asanoyama had the task to perform the traditional sumo bouts with the mayor of Nagoya and the governor of Aichi - he made the courtesy calls with the Nagoya responsible oyakata Dewanoumi and sempai Wakamatsu (Asanowaka) - local NHK vid http://www3.nhk.or.jp/tokai-news/20190625/3000005357.html (FNN vid: https://www.fnn.jp/posts/2019062500000005BBT) better from: local TV vid: https://news.bbt.co.jp/topics_detail.phtml?Record_ID=f669769ed28b69c6f16515194429e1eb the mayor - the bigger sumo fan oooo oo o the governor in the next post the basho pamphlet with Asanoyama o rikishi at PR: Tochiozan, Chiyomaru vid vid today at the rikishi-kai - Shimanoumi with a basho flyer o on the 27th: a talk show with Enho amd Abi o Edited June 26, 2019 by Akinomaki 1 1
Akinomaki Posted June 26, 2019 Author Posted June 26, 2019 (edited) On 25/06/2019 at 16:48, Akinomaki said: Yusho winner Asanoyama had the task to perform the traditional sumo bouts with the mayor of Nagoya and the governor of Aichi - he made the courtesy calls with the Nagoya responsible oyakata Dewanoumi and sempai Wakamatsu (Asanowaka) Today more pics with the governor - I put the new mayor pics with the 1st post and moved the one here o to business oo o o o o basho PR from Abi o Edited June 26, 2019 by Akinomaki 1 1
Akinomaki Posted June 27, 2019 Author Posted June 27, 2019 (edited) the talk show with Enho amd Abi today ooo o o o o oo news clib from Inhashi vid Edited June 28, 2019 by Akinomaki 1
Akinomaki Posted July 3, 2019 Author Posted July 3, 2019 Dohyo preparation started yesterday vidvid o o oo o o oo o o oo oo o to go on tomorrow o 1
Ack! Posted July 4, 2019 Posted July 4, 2019 I haven't seen a picture banzuke for some time. Has anyone else found one?
Tsuchinoninjin Posted July 4, 2019 Posted July 4, 2019 They are still being sold at the basho, so I guess it's up to someone to upload one?
Asojima Posted July 4, 2019 Posted July 4, 2019 23 minutes ago, Ack! said: I haven't seen a picture banzuke for some time. Has anyone else found one? Here. 1
Akinomaki Posted July 4, 2019 Author Posted July 4, 2019 (edited) Today was the recording of the zenya-sai program for the basho, it will be aired on the zenya, the evening before the basho - only on local TV. Takakeisho was there because he had intended to enter the basho and was still "fighting" about it with with his oyakata - the 4h discussion of the 2 continued after he returned from the TV show o o o Edited July 5, 2019 by Akinomaki 1
Akinomaki Posted July 5, 2019 Author Posted July 5, 2019 On 11/06/2019 at 21:16, Akinomaki said: The Nagoya responsible oyakata team led by Dewanoumi on the 6th opened the ahead office Chief in Nagoya Dewanoumi is kyujo for some time due to a bad physical condition, NSK no.2 Oguruma steps in for him and will be at the dohyo-matsuri tomorrow http://www.sanspo.com/sports/news/20190705/sum19070512560005-n1.html 1
Akinomaki Posted July 5, 2019 Author Posted July 5, 2019 The dohyo is ready for the dohyo matsuri tomorrow o o vid o o o o at the zenyasai - Demon interviews Araiso o o o more from the hold the baby event after the rikishi-kai for those who bought the right tickets. Only y/o on duty this time Takayasu- Takakeisho - Goeido o o o Tochinoshin - Hakuho -Kakuryu oo o 1
Akinomaki Posted July 6, 2019 Author Posted July 6, 2019 (edited) the venue is ready for the basho o o the Tanabata tree for tomorrow at the entrance - detailed wishes: http://www.sumoforum.net/forums/topic/37107-rikishi-kai-reports/?page=2 o o o Today the doyho matsuri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv9GMpCXw8E local NHK vid: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/tokai-news/20190706/3000005541.html a new member o oo old guard ooo also the officials are reduced o o oo o o o the yobidashi parade at Chiganoura-beya o Edited July 6, 2019 by Akinomaki 1
R.G Posted July 6, 2019 Posted July 6, 2019 Watching the building of the dohyo it’s such a good to build up towards anticipation and hype. I hope it’s a fierce basho!
Otokonoyama Posted July 6, 2019 Posted July 6, 2019 Now that they are using the same clay that is used in Tokyo, we'll have fewer complaints and fewer cracks.
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