{"id":2484,"date":"2026-10-23T15:24:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T15:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/?p=2484"},"modified":"2026-10-23T15:24:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T15:24:46","slug":"ryogoku-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/ja\/ryogoku-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryogoku Guide 2026\u201327: Edo-Tokyo Museum, Hokusai, Chanko Nabe and the Sumo Town by Day of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryogoku is Tokyo’s sumo town: the Ryogoku Kokugikan arena, a cluster of chanko nabe restaurants and three of the city’s best history museums all sit within a 10-minute walk of Ryogoku Station. This Ryogoku guide covers the reopened Edo-Tokyo Museum, the Sumida Hokusai Museum, Kyu-Yasuda Garden, the Edo NOREN food hall and where to eat chanko, with 2026 prices and the January 2027 tournament dates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One thing shapes every plan in this Ryogoku guide: most of the museums close on Mondays. Get the day right and you can do two museums, a garden and a sumo wrestlers’ hotpot lunch in one easy half day, all on foot.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Edo-Tokyo Museum permanent galleries, adult<\/p><\/div>

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Sumida Hokusai Museum special show, adult<\/p><\/div>

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Kyu-Yasuda Garden<\/p><\/div>

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Next sumo tournament at the Kokugikan<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Ryogoku Kokugikan. Photo: Steve Cadman<\/a> \uff0f\u30a6\u30a3\u30ad\u30e1\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2\u30fb\u30b3\u30e2\u30f3\u30ba\u3001 CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n

Which day should you visit Ryogoku?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Pick Tuesday to Saturday. The Edo-Tokyo Museum, the Sumida Hokusai Museum and the Japanese Sword Museum all close on Mondays (when Monday is a public holiday they open, then close the next weekday). The free Sumo Museum inside the Kokugikan does the opposite and closes at weekends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u65e5\u7a0b<\/th>What’s open<\/th>What’s shut<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Monday<\/td>Kyu-Yasuda Garden, Edo NOREN, most chanko restaurants, Sumo Museum (weekdays)<\/td>Edo-Tokyo Museum, Hokusai Museum, Sword Museum, Sumo Chaya Terao<\/td><\/tr>
Tuesday\u2013Friday<\/td>Everything<\/td>Nothing regular<\/td><\/tr>
Saturday<\/td>All museums; Edo-Tokyo Museum until 19:30<\/td>Sumo Museum<\/td><\/tr>
\u65e5\u66dc<\/td>All three museums, garden, Edo NOREN<\/td>Sumo Museum; Chanko Ouchi<\/td><\/tr>
Tokyo tournament days<\/td>Everything; Terao and Ouchi drop their closing days<\/td>Sumo Museum is for tournament ticket-holders only<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hours and closing days are from each venue’s official site or Sumida City’s tourism site, checked 23 October 2026. Ryogoku has two separate stations: JR Ryogoku (Sobu Line) and Toei Ryogoku (Oedo Line), about a 7-minute walk apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

North of the tracks: the Yokoami museum block<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Leave JR Ryogoku by the west exit and almost everything big in this Ryogoku guide lies north of you, in the Yokoami district between the railway and the Sumida River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ryogoku Kokugikan<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The national sumo arena hosts three of the six annual Grand Tournaments: January, May and September. The next one runs from 10 to 24 January 2027, with advance tickets on sale from 5 December 2026, according to the Japan Sumo Association<\/a>. The 2027 Tokyo dates after that are 9\u201323 May and 12\u201326 September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We won’t repeat the ticket strategy here: seat types, prices and the 10:00 JST sale-day rush are all in our \u5927\u76f8\u64b2\u30c1\u30b1\u30c3\u30c8\u30ac\u30a4\u30c9<\/a>. If you can’t get tickets, our sumo show and morning practice guide<\/a> covers paid shows, stable visits and the free Sumo Museum on the arena’s ground floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The giant museum on stilts next to the Kokugikan closed for renovation in April 2022 and reopened on 31 March 2026, after about four years. It tells the story of the city from Edo to modern Tokyo over two floors (5F and 6F) of permanent galleries covering about 9,000 m\u00b2, including its full-size reproduction of the Nihonbashi bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Edo-Tokyo Museum, reopened in March 2026. Photo: Wiiii<\/a> \uff0f\u30a6\u30a3\u30ad\u30e1\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2\u30fb\u30b3\u30e2\u30f3\u30ba\u3001 CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

New since the reopening: a full-size model of the Hattori clock shop, a symbol of Meiji-era Ginza, a walk-through \u6d45\u8349<\/a> Hanayashiki gate, a model of the Dojunkai Daikanyama Apartments with period furniture, and large screens recreating the skies over Edo. The \u6771\u4eac\u90fd<\/a> says audio guides in 13 languages, including English, run on your own smartphone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n