Japanese Baseball

Japanese baseball is not just a game – it's more an assault on all of your senses.

From talking to American baseball fans it appears that the noise in the baseball stadiums in Japan makes the supporters in the US seem quiet and controlled.

Arriving at the closed roof Tokyo dome, trying to avoid the summer heat, we were asked which teams we supported (Swallows or Giants) – we ended up sitting with the Giants fans.

There were dozens of ladies walking up and down the stairs serving all sorts of drinks and snacks. The hardest workers were the beer ladies carting a keg up and down the stairs. But the beer was good - very good.