Early-morning and late-night occasions are geared toward guests with an curiosity in excessive locations and wealthy tradition who even have deep pockets.
Tokyo’s Sumida Ward has an attention-grabbing double nature. On one hand, being the a part of the town the place the Tokyo Skytree stands, there’s an plain trendy side to Sumida, however on the similar time, the neighborhood is understood for its cultural connections to Tokyo’s Edo interval, when the close by Sumida River was the foremost route by which new items and concepts got here to the capital.
Now, a collection of particular occasions is about to mix these two components of Sumida’s id, as the Skytree’s remark deck, 350 meters (1,148 ft) up within the sky, will function a venue for geisha dance and sumo wrestling.
When you’re questioning how geisha are supposed to bounce, or sumo wrestlers grapple, inside one among Tokyo’s most-visited tourism areas, it’s as a result of these demonstrations will happen exterior of the Skytree’s regular 10 a.m.-10 p.m. working hours, when the remark deck is open completely to these attending the occasions. The geisha exhibition begins at 10 p.m. and runs till 12:30 a.m., whereas the sumo occasion is for early risers, starting at 5:30 a.m. and wrapping up at 8 within the morning.
The timing of the occasions additionally means you’ll get to see the view of Tokyo underneath very stunning circumstances, both the lights of the town shining within the night time, or the solar arising and bathing the town in its gentle because it crests the mountains that deceive Tokyo’s west.
When you’re frightened in regards to the morning sumo present overlapping together with your common breakfast time, you may put your thoughts, and abdomen, relaxed, because the program features a breakfast bento boxed meal made with regionally sourced Tokyo substances.
The nighttime geisha occasion, in the meantime, gives you with drinks, snacks, and even a sake cup made in Tokyo’s conventional Edo Kiriko glasswork fashion to take dwelling with you.
Each occasions may also embrace skilled photograph service, with a photographer to take images of you with the night time view behind you or a sumo wrestler at your facet.
The nighttime geisha occasion will happen this month on November 26 and once more on February 15 in 2025, and the morning sumo occasion on November 27 and December 16. Each are restricted to twenty individuals per day, and that exclusivity comes at a value of 100,000 yen (US$667) per individual for the sumo occasion, and 150,000 yen per individual for the geisha occasion. Reservations may be made by the Skytree’s official web site right here.
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