A honbasho (本場所) is an official professional sumo tournament. There are six held each year, a system established in 1958.
Ryōgoku Kokugikan (両国国技館 Ryōgoku Kokugi-kan), also known as Ryōgoku Sumo Hall, is an indoor sporting arena located in the Yokoami neighborhood (bordering to the Ryōgoku neighborhood) of Sumida, one of the 23 wards of Tokyo in Japan, next to the Edo-Tokyo Museum. It is the third building built in Tokyo associated with the name kokugikan.
The growing popularity of Sumo during the Meiji period led to the building of the original Kokugikan in Ryōgoku in 1909.
The current building was opened in 1985 and has a capacity of 13,000 people. It is mainly used for sumo wrestling tournaments (honbasho)
and hosts the hatsu (new year) basho in January, the natsu (summer)
basho in May, and the aki (autumn) basho in September.
It also houses a
museum about sumo.[1]
The venue is also used for other indoor events, such as boxing, pro
wrestling, and music concerts. In past years, it has hosted the finals
of the G1 Climax, an annual tournament held by New Japan Pro Wrestling.
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