Tokyo is home to several prominent theaters including the National Noh Theatre and Nippon Budokan arena. Tokyo often hosts national and international sporting events at venues like the National Stadium, and has two professional baseball clubs as well as football and basketball clubs. Major festivals in Tokyo include the Sannō Festival, Sanja Festival, and the fireworks festival over the Sumida River which attracts over a million viewers. Tokyo has a variety of shopping districts known for different products, with Ginza featuring high-end boutiques, Asakusa featuring vintage curios and food shops, and Shibuya known for its music shops.
Tokyo is home to several prominent theaters including the National Noh Theatre and Nippon Budokan arena. Tokyo often hosts national and international sporting events at venues like the National Stadium, and has two professional baseball clubs as well as football and basketball clubs. Major festivals in Tokyo include the Sannō Festival, Sanja Festival, and the fireworks festival over the Sumida River which attracts over a million viewers. Tokyo has a variety of shopping districts known for different products, with Ginza featuring high-end boutiques, Asakusa featuring vintage curios and food shops, and Shibuya known for its music shops.
Tokyo is home to several prominent theaters including the National Noh Theatre and Nippon Budokan arena. Tokyo often hosts national and international sporting events at venues like the National Stadium, and has two professional baseball clubs as well as football and basketball clubs. Major festivals in Tokyo include the Sannō Festival, Sanja Festival, and the fireworks festival over the Sumida River which attracts over a million viewers. Tokyo has a variety of shopping districts known for different products, with Ginza featuring high-end boutiques, Asakusa featuring vintage curios and food shops, and Shibuya known for its music shops.
Tokyo is home to several prominent theaters including the National Noh Theatre and Nippon Budokan arena. Tokyo often hosts national and international sporting events at venues like the National Stadium, and has two professional baseball clubs as well as football and basketball clubs. Major festivals in Tokyo include the Sannō Festival, Sanja Festival, and the fireworks festival over the Sumida River which attracts over a million viewers. Tokyo has a variety of shopping districts known for different products, with Ginza featuring high-end boutiques, Asakusa featuring vintage curios and food shops, and Shibuya known for its music shops.
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TOKYO
Theatres The National Noh Theatre opened in Japan in September 1983. The auditorium seats 591 people, but theres also the Nippon Budokan arena in the center of the city. It is 42 m high, it has an octagonal structure and it holds 14,471 people. Though it still functions as a venue for big musical events, like concerts, for Japanese martial arts (judo, kendo, karate, aikido, etc.) and for wrestling.
Sports Tokyo is home to two professional baseball clubs, football and basketball clubs. Tokyo often hosts national and international sporting events as tennis competitions, swim meets, marathons, rugby union, American football exhibition games, judo, and karate. In 1964 Tokyo held the Summer Olympics Games, known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, an international multi-sport event in October 1964. The 1964 Summer Games were the first Olympics in Asia and the first to be telecast internationally with colour. For that event it were built the National Stadium, which served as the main stadium for the opening and closing ceremonies. The stadium's official capacity was 57,363, but the real capacity was only 48,000 seats. Demolition was completed in May 2015, and the site will be redeveloped with a new larger-capacity for the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympic Games.
Festivals and carnivals
Many different festivals occur throughout Tokyo. Major events include the Sann at Hie Shrine, the Sanja at Asakusa Shrine, and the biennial Kanda Festivals. The last features a parade with elaborately decorated floats and thousands of people. Annually on the last Saturday of July, an enormous fireworks display to remember the decisive victory at the battle of Sekigahara over the Sumida River. This celebration attracts over a million viewers. The Asakusa Samba Carnival is one of Tokyo's more lively and popular summer festivals. It attracts 500,000 visitors each year. The festival has been held at the end of August since 1981. The one exception was 2011 when the festival was canceled due to the impact of the 2011 earthquake. The parade features thousands of musicians and dancers in elaborate costumes. The Asakusa Samba Carnival is a team dance competition with around 20 teams competing. Each dance team is led by their prospective candidates for next year's Queen of the Drums. These group leaders bear flags and have the most extravagant costumes of each team.
Shops Tokyo shopping has it all: high-end and offbeat fashion, traditional crafts, vintage wares, all manner of only-in-Japan souvenirs, and that gadget you didn't know existed but now desperately want. 1. Ginza is the affluent shopping district in Tokyo, home to the city's aristocratic boutiques: the shelves are full of ingenious toys. You shouldn't miss the nine floors of supplies at Itya. 2. Asakusa was once the heart of Edos low city, home to artisans, merchants and prostitutes. Its small streets and winding alleys are still full of surprises, including vintage curios, the beautiful noren (shopfront curtains), souvenir trinkets and food shops. 3. In Kagurazaka shops sells geta (traditional wooden sandals) and drawstring purses made from kimono. In the area there are also shops of Japanese sweets. 4. Roppongi is traditionally known for bars and its also home of a few of the citys most interesting and characteristic shops and showrooms of contemporary interior design. 5. Shibuya is famous for music shops . 6. Southwest of Shibuya is a favourite haunt of students and arty types and is also good for its record stores. 7.
