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2024 NPB Tour: Full Tour

Become an NPB Expert and a JapanBall HOFer

August 28 - September 14, 2024

Get all 12 NPB notches on your belt in one fell swoop! This tour combines NPB Tour Segments 1, 2, and 3 for one epic Japanese baseball journey. Attend games in 12 stadiums in 18 days along with fellow adventurous baseball fans. Enjoy baseball off-days for sightseeing in Japan’s cultural hub of Kyoto and Hiroshima, home of the Peace Park and Atomic Bomb Dome. You’ll get to see NPB’s sleekest new ballpark, ES CON Field Hokkaido, Japan’s oldest ballpark, 100-year-old Koshien Stadium, a rare Orix Buffaloes home game at Hotto Motto Field in Kobe, and everything in between!

You will also have the opportunity to attend a professional sumo wrestling tournament, a J1 League soccer game, and the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

Finally, to ensure JapanBall immortality, completing the full NPB tour earns you induction into the JapanBall Hall of Fame!

For an idea on what to expect, check out our 2023 Tour Recap.

For an even more epic Asian baseball adventure, combine this tour with our South Korea Baseball Tour

We recommend arriving to Tokyo one day early to give your body time to rest, adjust to the time change, and ensure you arrive on time for the welcome dinner. We would be happy to reserve your hotel for an additional night. 

This tour may be very physically demanding for some guests due to our frequent travel and Japan’s heat and humidity in August and September. We will change hotels nine times via sometimes long train rides. It is required that all guests must be able to carry/roll their own luggage during train transfers for about 1/3 mile (including up and down flights of stairs), and also lift their bags to the overhead space on trains. If you expect to have any difficulties with these requirements, then we recommend that you consider the Tokyo NPB Tour.

*Itinerary

    • Tuesday, August 27: Depart U.S.A., cross international date line in-air
    • Aug 28: Arrival to Tokyo and welcome dinner
    • Aug 29: Hanshin Tigers vs Yokohama BayStars @ Yokohama Stadium (6:00 PM)
    • Aug 30: Yokohama BayStars vs Chunichi Dragons @ Vantelin Dome Nagoya (6:00 PM)
    • Aug 31: Ichiro Museum; J1 League soccer match (optional)
    • September 1: Yakult Swallows vs Hiroshima Carp @ Mazda Zoom-Zoom Stadium Hiroshima (6:00 PM)
    • Sep 2: Hiroshima sightseeing
    • Sep 3: Nippon-Ham Fighters vs SoftBank Hawks @ Fukuoka PayPay Dome (6:00 PM)
    • Sep 4: Seibu Lions vs Orix Buffaloes @ Hotto Motto Field (6:00 PM)
    • Sep 5: Koshien Stadium Museum; Chunichi Dragons vs Hanshin Tigers @ Koshien Stadium (6:00 PM)
    • Sep 6: Kyoto sightseeing
    • Sep 7: Baseball HOF & Museum; Yokohama BayStars vs Yomiuri Giants @ Tokyo Dome (2:00 PM)
    • Sep 8: Tokyo Big6 college baseball game (optional); Rakuten Eagles vs Lotte Marines @ ZOZO Marine Stadium (6:00 PM)
    • Sep 9: Fly to Sapporo
    • Sep 10: Seibu Lions vs Nippon-Ham Fighters @ ES CON Field Hokkaido (6:00 PM)
    • Sep 11: Fly to Sendai; SoftBank Hawks vs Rakuten Eagles @ Rakuten Mobile Park Miyagi (6:00 PM)
    • Sep 12: Rakuten Eagles vs Seibu Lions @ Belluna Dome (6:00 PM)
    • Sep 13: Sumo tournament (optional); Yomiuri Giants vs Yakult Swallows @ Meiji Jingu Stadium (6:00 PM)
    • Saturday, Sep 14: Depart Tokyo
*This itinerary is subject to change.

Price

TBA double occupancy

 TBA single occupancy

Price includes a discount off the combined price of NPB Tour Segments 1, 2, and 3.

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