Before you read on
- When you race
- 21–25 January 2027
- How many nights to book
- 3 nights
- Who this race suits
- A cheap, dry winter race in the best eating city in Japan.
- Nearest airport to the venue
- Kansai International (KIX), About 50 min on the limousine bus, or 90 min by train with two changes
- Cost for the weekend
- JPY 40,400 (USD 252) per person, Flights and race entry.
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Should you race here?
A cheap, dry winter race on Osaka Bay, in the best eating city in Japan.
Reasons to
- An ordinary meal is about JPY 1,000 and a room by the venue starts around JPY 8,800.
- Dry and bright: 47mm of rain across six January days, at 61% humidity.
- Dotonbori, Kuromon market and Shinsekai are the reason people come to Osaka.
- Kyoto is thirty minutes away and Nara forty, both at their quietest in January.
Reasons not to
- INTEX is forty minutes from the centre and there is nothing around it.
- The train from the airport takes ninety minutes with two changes.
- Two Kyocera Dome shows land on the race days, so central rooms are tighter.
Conditions on the day
BYD HYROX Osaka runs January 21st, 2027 to January 25th, 2027 at INTEX Osaka. Here is what that specific window is like on the ground.
The catch
Cold, dry and bright
10°C (49°F) by day, 3°C (37°F) at night
Osaka in late January
- The January average reaches 9.7°C (49°F) by day and falls to 3.0°C (37°F) at night.
- Humidity is 61%, which is low for Japan and makes the cold easier than a European winter.
- 47mm of rain falls across six days, so most January days here are dry and clear.
- Daylight runs 07:02 to 17:17, which is ten hours and a quarter.
- Daylight
- Dark
- Bar height is temperature
What racing here is like
Your race is here
INTEX Osaka
January 21st, 2027
BYD HYROX Osaka
- Everything below describes this building first, and the other for comparison
The venue at a glance
- Address
- 1-5-102 Nanko-kita, Suminoe-ku, Osaka
- Nearest station
- Nakafuto station, the New Tram (5 min walk)
- Parking
- Nakafuto parking serves the venue. The daily rate is not published.
- From the nearest hotel
- 5 to 15 min from Hotels on the bay
- Altitude
- 3m above sea level, low enough to make no difference to your race.
- Bag drop
- Hyrox has not published the bag drop arrangement for Osaka.
- Supporters
- Hyrox has not published spectator ticketing for Osaka.
Osaka has moved building, moved season, and grown from a single day into the best part of a week. Where you race, and when, changes the day more than most people expect.
INTEX Osaka, your race is in this building
Six halls on reclaimed land in Osaka Bay, out at the end of the New Tram line, forty minutes from the centre.
Known for. The trade fairs that fill Osaka Bay, and the 2019 G20 summit, which was held here.
The building. Opened in 1985 on reclaimed port land as Osaka built out its bay, and expanded as the fair business grew.
Race day and start times
The thing that shapes your travel is not the race date. It is when you find out what time you are racing on it.
Hyrox links individual start times on the event page about three days before the race. A provisional schedule goes up earlier.
What to bring
At INTEX, and only on the day you compete. Registration opens 90 minutes before the first wave of your division.
You do not bring a chip. You collect the ankle strap at check-in, wear it for the race, and hand it back after the line.
What your wristband does not cover
You are given a wristband at check-in. Hyrox has not published what the Osaka one admits you to. Check-in is open only on the day you race, so do not assume it covers a second day.
Getting there on the morning
The New Tram to Nakafuto, then five minutes on foot. From the city allow forty minutes and a change.
What you need to book
Before you book
Book flights and the last night around the provisional schedule, not around a wave you have not been given.
If Hyrox cancels or postpones the event, its terms do not cover your flights or your room. Check the cancellation deadline on both before you pay for either.
Flying into the city
Itami is closer and handles domestic flights only, and Kobe is the third, smallest option.
Search flights to OsakaBy train
Check train times and faresSomewhere to stay
The closest beds go first, and those are the ones that matter on race morning.
Compare hotels near the venueSomething to do with the rest of the weekend
Most people fly in for one race and see nothing. The day before is dead time if you do not plan it.
Tours and tickets in OsakaSomewhere to put your bag
Flying out the same evening? This is the difference between a good afternoon and hauling a kit bag around a city.
Left luggage in OsakaYour entry
Sold by Hyrox, one ticket per division per day. We earn nothing from this link and include it because you need it.
Official Hyrox entriesEstimate weekend cost
| Item | Local currency | USD |
|---|---|---|
| Three nights Nights near the venue | JPY 26,400 | $165 |
| Travel, airport and around the city | JPY 5,000 | $31 |
| Eating, three days | JPY 9,000 | $56 |
| One athlete plus one supporter | JPY 40,400 | $252 |
Getting to Osaka
The Kansai limousine bus runs to the Hyatt Regency next to INTEX in about 50 minutes for JPY 1,500.
The Kansai limousine bus
Fifty minutes from the airport to the Hyatt Regency next to INTEX, for JPY 1,500. One vehicle, no changes, and it stops at the venue.
The train, if the bus has gone
JR rapid to Bentencho, Chuo line to Cosmosquare, New Tram to Nakafuto. Ninety minutes, two changes and JPY 1,390.
Entry requirements
Quick tip
The train is JPY 1,390 and takes 90 minutes with two changes. The bus costs a hundred yen more and saves forty minutes.
Getting to the venue
There are hotels on the bay beside the venue, including the Hyatt Regency next door. Namba and Umeda are forty minutes away and are the real city.
INTEX is out in the bay and everything takes about forty minutes from the centre, with a change at Cosmosquare onto the New Tram. The weekend metro day ticket is JPY 620, which is cheaper than two single journeys.
Where to stay
You can stay on the bay next to the hall or in the city forty minutes away. The bay is convenient and empty; the city is the reason to come to Osaka.
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1. Hotels on the bay
The Hyatt Regency is next door and the limousine bus stops at it. From about JPY 8,800 a night and nothing around it.
2. Hotels in Namba
Dotonbori, Kuromon market and the best eating in Japan. Forty minutes out, and the reason most people come.
3. Hotels in Umeda
The business district, the Shinkansen connection and the department stores. It is the same forty minutes, more polished.
Two Kyocera Dome nights land on the race days, which tightens central rooms. The bay hotels are unaffected and nearer.
Neighbourhoods worth the commute
Osaka is large and INTEX is out on the bay, so almost everything below is forty minutes by train.
| Area | To the venue | Why | Suits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nanko and the bay | 5 to 15 min on foot | Reclaimed port land with a few hotels, an aquarium and a ferris wheel. Convenient and empty. | |
| Namba | about 40 min by train | Dotonbori, the neon, the food streets and Kuromon market. The loudest and best part of the city. | |
| Umeda | about 40 min by train | Towers, department stores and the Sky Building. The business half, and the Shinkansen is next door. | |
| Tennoji | about 40 min by train | A transport hub with Japan's tallest building above it and Shinsekai, the old pleasure quarter, behind. | |
| Kyobashi | about 40 min by train | A workaday junction east of the castle, with cheap izakayas under the tracks and no visitors. |
Eating before and after
The night before a race is not the night for the best meal of your trip, which is harder discipline than it sounds in a city this good at food.
The bay hotels
The Hyatt Regency and the others around Nanko have restaurants that serve early, five minutes from the hall. There is nothing else out here.
Any station udon counter
Every Osaka station has a standing udon shop doing a bowl for under a thousand yen in four minutes. The cheapest decent carbohydrate in this guide.
Osaka calls itself the nation's kitchen and the food is the single best reason to come.
Okonomiyaki at Mizuno
A cabbage and batter pancake cooked on the griddle in front of you, in Dotonbori, at a shop that has been doing it since 1945. Fifteen hundred to eighteen hundred yen.
Kushikatsu Daruma, Shinsekai
Skewers of everything, breadcrumbed and deep fried, with one communal sauce pot and a rule against double dipping. Fifteen hundred to twenty-five hundred yen.
Race day supplies
The practical failures that spoil a race weekend are almost never the training. They are forgetting the gels, or carrying a kit bag around a city for six hours.
Pack list
- A warm layer for the morning. It is 3.0°C (37°F) overnight and the bay is exposed.
- Less waterproofing than a European January. Osaka gets 47mm across six days.
- A card that works on IC transit, or buy an ICOCA at the airport.
Quick tips
- Take the limousine bus from Kansai. It is forty minutes quicker than the train and stops at the venue.
- A weekend metro day ticket is JPY 620, which is less than two single fares.
Nanko has convenience stores and little else. Japanese convenience stores are better stocked than most supermarkets, so this is less of a problem than it sounds.
The last race in Osaka
INTEX Osaka is a recent addition to the Hyrox calendar, so there is little previous form here to pass on.
What happened
The last edition, in short.
- There are six halls on the site. Check the hall number before you leave the station.
- Nakafuto is on the New Tram, which means a change at Cosmosquare from the Chuo line.
What it means for you
How your race differs from that one.
- The venue is forty minutes from central Osaka, and the last leg is a small automated line.
- The limousine bus from Kansai is 50 minutes against 90 by train, and it stops next door.
What else is on that weekend
Two stadium nights across town, and nothing at the bay.
| What | When | Where | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bump of Chicken | 23 and 24 January | Kyocera Dome, Nishi-ku | Both race days. Thirty-six thousand a night at a dome in the middle of the city, which takes central rooms. |
| Incognito | 23 January | Zepp Namba | Saturday night in Namba. Small, and only relevant if you want something to do. |
| Bruno Mars, just before | 19 and 20 January | Kyocera Dome | The Tuesday and Wednesday before. Gone by the time you arrive, but it tightens the week's rooms. |
| Winter illuminations | Through January | Midosuji and Nakanoshima | The main avenues stay lit into the new year. Worth an evening walk if you are staying centrally. |
What to see
Written for someone racing tomorrow, not a tourist with a week. Each entry says how far it is, because some of these are worth a longer trip and some are not.
Osaka Castle
A reconstructed keep on an enormous stone base, with a museum inside and a park around it. Twelve hundred yen, and the stonework at the base is the original and the better part.
Dotonbori
A canal lined with enormous mechanical signs, a running man in neon and more places to eat than you can count. Free, loud and the thing Osaka is for.
Kuromon Ichiba
A covered market six hundred metres long where the city buys its fish. Go in the morning and eat standing up.
Shinsekai and Tsutenkaku
A district built in 1912 to look like Paris and Coney Island, left behind for decades, now the best place in Japan to eat fried food on a stick.
What to do
A day in Kyoto
Fifteen minutes by Shinkansen or thirty on the regular line. Late January is the quietest the temples get, and the cold is part of it.
The Umeda Sky Building
Two towers joined by a floating observatory, reached by an escalator through open air. Better than it sounds and best at dusk.
A sento or onsen
Public baths are everywhere and cost a few hundred yen. Spa World in Shinsekai is the large version, and the right thing to do the day after.
Nara, for the day
Forty minutes east, with the great bronze Buddha in the largest wooden building in the world, and a park full of deer that bow.
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Last updated November 7th, 2026.