Sumo

10 Best Foods We Ate In Japan
1. Chunky Chankonabe. While on a quest to find sumo wrestlers in Tokyo, a small group of students tried this famous soup in Sumida. Chankonabe is a traditional sumo stew that consists of various vegetables and protein. It’s quite delicious, but don’t eat too much if you don’t want to gain any more weight. Traditionally, […]
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Food of the Sumo
On one of our unstructured (read: free) days, Emilee, Grant, Dylan, Jon, and I set off on a day-long journey to find some sumo wrestlers. We searched high and low, going everywhere from the sumo stables (where they train so, basically, a sumo gym) to the Ryogoku Kokugikan Sumo Arena, where most of the sumo […]
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10 Most Instagrammable Spots in Tokyo
If you’re traveling to Tokyo, one of the main challenges that you’re going to face (besides jet lag, perhaps a language barrier, etc.) will be trying to see all that you can. You’ll be walking a lot, but fear not; Tokyo has a fast, immaculate subway system that’s not difficult to navigate (if I can […]
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