Sumo Museum (Re: Tokyo Kokugikan)

[abe@kaleida.com (Masumi Abe)]

Take JR Sobu-line to Ryogiku station. If you take North Exit, Ryogoku
Kokugikan is right in front of you. Don't disappointed with its size, Sumo
Museum is only one-room exhibition. They change the display from time to
time. I was kind of disappointed for I expected it to be the museum full of
sumo information and history.

When I visited there last month, during Nagoya-basho, they had Yokozuna
Kesho-mawashi exhibit going on. There were Taiho's, Kashiwado's,
Kotozakura's and others. There were also old scrapbooks with clipped
newspaper articles from old days, from Tochi-Waka Era on. It was very quiet
and we, particularly my 12-year-old son and I enjoyed the exhibit.

I don't know if it is open on Sunday or not, but it is open free to public. 

-Masumi

At  5:11 PM 8/9/94 +0900, Riley@hachi.hi-tech.ac.jp wrote:
>Who's been to the above place?  I'm staying across the street from it
>later this month, and would like to visit the museum there.  Is it
>open on Sundays?  Tell me about it if you have some time!!
>
>Mata nee....
> 
>David
>riley@hachi.hi-tech.ac.jp
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