Watching Izumo hotels for the opening leg of the collegiate ekiden triple crown on Sports Day.
Watched nights: Oct 11. Base: Izumo Taisha. This event is watched on demand: tap resume on the page to start it, and the instant a highly-rated hotel frees up (a cancellation), Aki alerts you with a one-click Rakuten Travel booking link.
The collegiate triple crown opens at Izumo Taisha's torii on Sports Day morning, and every team's entourage sleeps in Izumo the night before — a Sunday inside a three-day weekend that we verified running at half the normal room count.
A one-day race decided by noon — only the eve is tight. Rooms return near free-cancellation deadlines, and Matsue along the San-in Line adds options.
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