What other travelers are saying about Saitama Stadium 2002
Awesome stadium! Me and my brother watched Japan vs Saudi Arabia in a FIFA qualifier match. They let you bring beers in if if you pour it into their cups and the drinks inside don't cost much anyways. Bathrooms were good and never had that long a wait. The stadium is huge and the people were all very nice and helpful!
I didn't realize though that when getting tickets for behind the goal all the seating is open seating. You don't have an actual seat you just bran what you can. If I had known that we would have gotten to the stadium earlier. We were walking around the town thinking we had specific seats lol but hey no biggie just get their earlier if you want a closer seat.
The huge soccer stadium has over 60,000 seats and is the home stadium of the Japan national team.
It takes about 30 minutes from the city center of Tokyo to Urawa-Misono, the nearest station.
And then it needed to walk 20 minutes from the station to the stadium.
It gets very crowded after matches.
In today’s match, while I was taking pictures of players warming up on the pitch, one supporter approached me with aggressive behavior and told me that the cameras are not allowed here. I don’t understand why we are not allowed to take photos inside football stadium. Personally, I would say that please be careful while attending the home supporters’ stand; not all people welcome us foreigners.
