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Ryogoku Station & Edo Noren 両国駅・両国 江戸NOREN

Sumo's home station: the restored 1929 station building houses Edo Noren, a food hall built around a full-size sumo ring, while the platforms are decorated with sumo wrestler banners and handprints.

About

Ryogoku is sumo country, and its station shows it. The old JR station building, an Art Deco-tinged structure from 1929, was restored and reopened in 2016 as Ryogoku Edo Noren, a food hall modelled on an Edo townscape with a full-size dohyo (sumo ring) in the middle, ringed by restaurants serving chanko-nabe, monjayaki, tempura, sushi and soba. The station's concourse displays sumo champions' portraits and handprints, and during tournament weeks you may share the platform with wrestlers in yukata. The station's little-used Platform 3, a remnant of its days as a terminus, is used for special trains such as the B.B.Base cycle train to the Boso Peninsula. Ryogoku Kokugikan, the sumo hall, and the Edo-Tokyo Museum are a few minutes' walk away.

Highlights

• Edo Noren: a food hall built around a full-size sumo ring inside the 1929 station building
• Chanko-nabe, the sumo wrestlers' hot pot, at counters inside Edo Noren
• Sumo champion portraits and wrestler handprints in the station concourse
• Platform 3, a lower-level terminus remnant for special trains like B.B.Base
• Wrestlers in yukata on the platforms during January, May and September tournaments

Tips

• Use the West Exit for Edo Noren and the Kokugikan.
• Edo Noren's restaurants are busiest after the day's sumo finishes (around 18:00 on tournament days); eat early.
• A tourist information desk inside Edo Noren has maps of sumo stables you can walk past.
• On tournament days come in the morning to spot junior wrestlers arriving.

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Nearby

• Coin Lockers · Ryogoku StationLuggage Storage · 50 m away
• Ryogoku Tourist Information CenterTourist Info · 70 m away
• Ryogoku KokugikanSports & Sumo · 70 m away
• Sumo MuseumMuseum · 120 m away
• Beer Club PopeyeBars & Nightlife · 140 m away
• Edo-Tokyo MuseumMuseum · 230 m away
• Kyu-Yasuda GardenGarden · 230 m away
• Japanese Sword MuseumMuseum · 290 m away