Asian Games
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The 20th Asian Games run 19 September to 4 October 2026 across Aichi Prefecture and Nagoya, Japan — the continent’s largest multi-sport gathering, and India’s most important medal stage before the 2028 Olympics. Forty-five nations, dozens of disciplines. For Indian fans it is the rare Games where the tricolour is a genuine contender in event after event.

We build around India’s best chances — hockey, kabaddi, athletics, badminton, wrestling, shooting — with verified session tickets held before you fly. Venues sit across Aichi, so mornings might mean the athletics track and evenings a kabaddi mat. Between competition days, a Kyoto leg gives the trip a second gear that isn’t sport at all.

Nagoya is Central Japan’s workhorse city — Toyota’s home, a reconstructed castle, and the country’s best rail connections in every direction. Late September brings 22–28°C, warm and often humid, with a tail-end typhoon never fully ruled out. English signage is thinner than Tokyo, cash still matters, and the trains, as ever in Japan, run to the second.

Some moments are built for lingering: the whole India section on its feet as a kabaddi raider clears the line in the final seconds; a quiet Kyoto temple garden the morning after a late medal; a Nagoya izakaya where strangers in blue replay the day’s results over cold beer and skewers off the grill.

For fans who follow Team India across disciplines and want Japan’s culture wrapped around the sport — families, couples, medal-chasers. It is not for anyone wanting a single headline event; the Asian Games reward the curious, who’ll sit through a shooting final as happily as a hockey semi.