{"id":2971,"date":"2018-05-29T12:49:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T03:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/sumo-stable-nagoya-basho\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T11:35:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:35:04","slug":"sumo-stable-nagoya-basho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/sumo-stable-nagoya-basho\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Up Close and Personal at Nagoya’s Sumo Stables"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The sumo season centers around six fifteen-day major competitions, or ‘honbasho’, throughout the year, with three events held in Tokyo in January, May and September, one in March in Osaka, one in Fukuoka in November, and July sees the Nagoya Basho.<\/p>\n

The honbasho – literally ‘real tournament’ – are of great importance to the sumo world as they are the only events at which wrestlers, or ‘rikishi’ can be promoted and demoted in the rankings. As such these bouts are witness to intense competition.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most grueling of these events is the Nagoya Basho, being as it is held in one of the country’s most humid of cities at the muggiest time of the year; something that cannot be particularly enjoyable for guys who weigh in at an average of 148 kg (326 lbs), even of they are wearing nothing more than ‘mawashi’ loincloths. To acclimatize to the conditions, two weeks prior to the event the rikishi leave their Tokyo homes and decamp to the training centers – known as stable or ‘heya’ in Japanese – of Aichi to prepare for the extreme heat and competition.<\/p>\n

The great thing about this is that for the fortnight that they are in town their ‘asageiko’ morning training sessions are open to the public, giving us locals an amazing chance to watch them in action as they perfect their moves and improve before the big event.<\/p>\n

Below is a selection of some of the most prestigious stables and where you can find them. For the entire list of ‘sumo beya’ in Nagoya, check out the always fantastic kikuko-nagoya.com website’s list here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Most morning sessions are held between\u00a06:30 and 9:30 or 10:00 depending on the stable. Please note, some stables do not open for training. At the time of publication the below stables were still advertised as allowing visitors, however this is subject to change, so it is advisable to contact the stable in advance or check their website.<\/p>\n

Prestigious stables with morning practice<\/h2>\n

Isenoumi Stable<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Isenoumi name is one of the most traditional in sumo.<\/p>\n