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On the again of watching a whopping 21 completely different sports activities in 2023, final 12 months’s whole was a extra modest 12 and I used to be pretty pleased with that. I don’t have any actual curiosity in bettering that 2023 whole and would have been content material with reaching double digits. But once more my primary focus was on my three favorite sports activities (soccer, rugby and tennis) in addition to any sports activities occasion happening at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on Fridays once I’m off work. Rating all of them so as of desire is an unimaginable process so I’ve as a substitute opted to only checklist them in alphabetical order.
1. American Soccer
The possibility to see this type of soccer being performed at Tokyo’s iconic rugby floor was too good a possibility to show down. While I struggled to comply with what was happening at instances I nonetheless had a beautiful night out at Chichibunomiya Stadium because the X-League season kicked off. Receiving a free shirt was an enormous bonus too! Extra particulars right here.
2. Athletics
The massive showpiece observe and area occasion of the 12 months was the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. I booked a pair of tickets for 2 of the dates a few 12 months prematurely so had some moderately good seats within the most cost-effective part for the 2 Sunday night periods which included elite motion like the boys’s 100 metres ultimate and the group relay finals within the 4 x 100 and 4 x 400 metres. Extra particulars right here.
3. Baseball
For a sport I nonetheless don’t actually like an excessive amount of, I ended up attending three video games in three completely different cities in 2025 together with a brand new expertise at Yokohama Stadium which has the perfect environment of any sports activities stadia in Japan’s second largest metropolis. Extra particulars right here.
4. Basketball
Having seen Kylie in live performance at Ariake Area in March I actually was not anticipating to return there anytime quickly however to my shock I used to be again in July to observe the ladies’s nationwide basketball groups of Japan and Denmark dealing with off in a Mitsui Fudosan Cup exhibition collection in preparation for the FIBA Girls’s Asia Cup in China later that very same month. Extra particulars right here.
5. Breaking
Many individuals scoffed on the concept of breaking being included eventually 12 months’s Olympics in Paris and I’m in all probability not 100% harmless in that regard both. This was in all probability the one sport I might not have anticipated to see in any respect. Extra particulars right here.
6. Soccer
Soccer is and all the time would be the bread and butter of my sporting calendar, and in 2025 I attended 30 matches in seven prefectures with six of them being new stadiums for me. Extra particulars right here.
7. Gymnastics
After I purchased the ticket, I didn’t really realise it was the identical match I attended the earlier 12 months in Gunma Prefecture. The ticket was not free this time but it surely saved on transportation prices and naturally time. It was simply as overwhelming as in 2024 as there have been typically a couple of occasions happening on the identical time. Virtually each efficiency seemed massively spectacular via the eyes of this novice! Extra particulars right here.
8. Handball
My second ever handball match and but once more I noticed Zeekstar Tokyo in motion. I even remembered a few of their gamers from my inaugural look in November 2023.
9. Rugby
It was troublesome to stay as much as the heights of my rugby experiences in 2024 however after all there have been nonetheless some memorable moments from the 9 video games I attended together with one worldwide and two showpiece finals. Extra particulars right here.
10. Swimming
My second swimming occasion ever was the Japan Open Championship in March. I can’t say I keep in mind an excessive amount of about any of the motion, but it surely was good to see it with a good friend once I often watch most sports activities alone.
11. Desk Tennis
This was fairly an awesome spectacle as there have been 17 matches happening on the identical time. It’s a sport which seemingly will get numerous airtime every time the Olympics comes spherical and as a result of that I’m really conscious of fairly a couple of Japanese gamers, and nearly all of them have been collaborating on this occasion. Of the 20+ sports activities I’ve watched for the primary time in the previous couple of years, that is in all probability the one I’ve loved essentially the most. Extra particulars right here.
12. Taekwondo
The Tokyo 2025 Deaflympics provided the prospect to see a couple of sports activities I’d by no means seen earlier than however finally, I used to be solely capable of see one. It’s all the time good to go to a brand new place too, and I used to be capable of perceive this martial artwork far larger than judo or karate.
13. Tennis
It was a bumper 12 months for tennis too as I watched 9 days of motion in whole together with Davis Cup, Kinoshita Open and the Toray Pan Pacific Open amongst others. Moreover, it was a bumper 12 months for assembly gamers. Extra particulars right here.
14. Wheelchair Basketball
The on-court motion was extremely aggressive as certainly I anticipated having seen a little bit of it in earlier Paralympic video games. There have been two video games happening concurrently and it was end-to-end stuff within the two matches I hung round for. Extra particulars right here.
15. Wrestling
The All-Japan choice wrestling championships have been happening over 4 days and I made a decision {that a} return to the match I first witnessed in 2024 was value it once more. Not like 12 months earlier although I sadly didn’t know any of the rivals in motion. Nonetheless, it’s all the time good to see a sport I wouldn’t often watch. Extra particulars right here.
Bonus: Not precisely stay sport however a motor automotive occasion kicked off my sporting 12 months in early January. It featured driver and influencer Hana Burton, and a large choice of sports activities vehicles.
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