The Japanese Baseball Experience
Japanese baseball is nothing like what you've seen at home. The organized cheering sections, the in-seat bento boxes, the beer vendors sprinting up the stairs with kegs strapped to their backs, the seventh-inning stretch with balloon releases. NPB stadiums are an experience that exists nowhere else in sports.
We handle everything: tickets, transit to the stadium, navigating the food stalls, explaining the cheering culture, finding the best seats, and making sure you walk away understanding why Japanese fans treat their team like family. Before or after the game, we build the rest of the day around the city the stadium is in.
Game Day Formats
Game Day Essential
Stadium arrival, ticket guidance, food tour of the stadium concourse, guided cheering, cultural commentary throughout. The game itself is the tour.
Full Game Day
Morning or afternoon exploring the host city, lunch at a local spot, then the full game experience. A complete day designed around the schedule.
Multi-Day Baseball Trip
Multiple games across different cities and stadiums. Train between cities, different teams, different atmospheres. The ultimate baseball tour of Japan.
Batting Cages and Beer
Hit some balls at a Japanese batting center, then izakaya hopping in the neighborhood. Low-key, high-fun. No game required.
The 12 NPB clubs
Two leagues, six clubs each. Every stadium name and address below is the one Nippon Professional Baseball publishes on its own English site, read on 2026-08-14.
Club names and marks are the property of their respective clubs and Nippon Professional Baseball. They appear here to identify each club and do not indicate any affiliation, sponsorship or endorsement.
Central League
| Club | Home stadium | City | Links | |
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Hanshin Tigers阪神タイガース | Koshien Stadium1-82 Koshien-cho, Nishinomiya | NishinomiyaHyogo | Official siteSchedule |
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YOKOHAMA DeNA BAYSTARS横浜DeNAベイスターズ | Yokohama StadiumYokohama Park, Naka-ku, Yokohama | YokohamaKanagawa | Official siteSchedule |
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Yomiuri Giants読売ジャイアンツ | Tokyo Dome1-3 Koraku, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo | TokyoTokyo | Official siteSchedule |
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Chunichi Dragons中日ドラゴンズ | Vantelin Dome Nagoya1-1-1 Daikominami, Higashi-ku, Nagoya | NagoyaAichi | Official siteSchedule |
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Hiroshima Toyo Carp広島東洋カープ | Mazda Zoom-Zoom Stadium Hiroshima2-3-1 Minamikaniya, Minami-ku, Hiroshima | HiroshimaHiroshima | Official siteSchedule |
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Tokyo Yakult Swallows東京ヤクルトスワローズ | Jingu Stadium3-1 Kasumigaoka-machi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo | TokyoTokyo | Official siteSchedule |
Pacific League
| Club | Home stadium | City | Links | |
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Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks福岡ソフトバンクホークス | MIZUHO PayPay Dome FUKUOKA2-2-2 Jigyohama, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka | FukuokaFukuoka | Official siteSchedule |
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Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters北海道日本ハムファイターズ | ES CON FIELD HOKKAIDO1 F VILLAGE, Kitahiroshima | KitahiroshimaHokkaido | Official siteSchedule |
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ORIX Buffaloesオリックス・バファローズ | Kyocera Dome Osaka3-naka2-1 Chiyozaki, Nishi-ku, Osaka | OsakaOsaka | Official siteSchedule |
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Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles東北楽天ゴールデンイーグルス | Rakuten Mobile SAIKYO Park Miyagi2-11-6 Miyagino, Miyagino-ku, Sendai | SendaiMiyagi | Official siteSchedule |
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Saitama Seibu Lions埼玉西武ライオンズ | Belluna Dome2135 Kamiyamaguchi, Tokorozawa | TokorozawaSaitama | Official siteSchedule |
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Chiba Lotte Marines千葉ロッテマリーンズ | ZOZO Marine Stadium1 Mihama, Mihama-ku, Chiba | ChibaChiba | Official siteSchedule |
Fixtures
This page does not carry fixtures or scores. NPB publishes its schedule as web pages only, with no data feed of any kind, so anything reproduced here would go out of date without warning and a stale score is worse than none. The Schedule link on each club above goes to NPB’s own English calendar for that club.
Access
Each club’s own site is linked above. Nearest stations are not listed here, because NPB publishes no station or access information for any stadium in either language, and a station guessed from a map is not a fact worth putting in front of somebody catching a train.
How a season is shaped
| Phase | When | What it is |
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| Regular season | Late March to early October | 143 games per club. Interleague play (交流戦) runs across a stretch of late May and June. |
| All-Star Series | Usually July | Two games between a Central League and a Pacific League selection. |
| Climax Series | October | The play-offs. Each league runs a First Stage and a Final Stage; the league winner advances to the Japan Series. |
| Japan Series | Late October to early November | Best of seven between the Central and Pacific League champions. |
https://npb.jp/eng/ — NPB's own English site. Phase names and sequence as NPB presents them; month ranges are the usual shape of the calendar rather than a fixture claim for any single year.
What's Included
Personal guide throughout the experience. Ticket sourcing and procurement guidance. Stadium food and drink recommendations. Cultural context and cheering section coaching. Pre-game or post-game city exploration. Restaurant selection for meals outside the stadium.
Tickets, meals, and transit are at your cost (purchased with guidance). Guide fee covers the guided experience itself.