Extra Innings Travel

🇯🇵 Mini NPB Tour Days 1-2 ⚾️

Our annual Mini NPB Tour is underway in Osaka!

We started on Tuesday night with a visit to Kyocera Dome for the Saitama Seibu Lions and Orix Buffaloes. Unfortunately for the home team, NPB ERA leader Kaima Taira was in cruise control, shutting down the Buffaloes for 8 innings en route to a 2-0 victory. 🦁🐃

The next morning, we planned to explore Dotonbori together, but heavy rains had other plans. Luckily, we were still able to make it to Namba Parks to see some hidden baseball history connected to the old Nankai Hawks. We visited the site of former Osaka Stadium and the National Gallery of Nankai Hawks, remembering the club’s Osaka roots before its move to Fukuoka. 🌧️

From there, we made the short trip to Kobe, where the group enjoyed a hosted Kobe beef welcome lunch before heading to Hotto Motto Field Kobe for another Lions-Buffaloes matchup — this time at one of Japan’s most scenic and underrated ballparks. Seibu proved too strong for Orix again with another shutout victory, this time by an 8-0 scoreline.

Next stop: Fukuoka 🚆

Happy International Literacy Day! 📚🇯🇵

One of our favorite things to see is how the experiences from our Japan tours continue long after the trip is over.

After joining one of our tours with his family, the son of one of our guests brought a little bit of Japan back to the classroom, putting together a school project all about Japan and Nippon Professional Baseball! ⚾️

⚾️ Our 3rd annual Oakland Ballers meetup was a major success!

We had another great turnout, bringing together members of the Lefty O’Doul Bay Area SABR chapter, JapanBallers, and the Extra Innings Travel community for a night of baseball in Oakland 🙌

A highlight of the evening was heading into the dugout after the game and meeting former San Francisco Giants executive and current Ballers President Yeshayah Goldfarb.

Big thanks to SK — our Korea tour guide and a member of the Ballers staff — for helping facilitate the meetup, and to Steve Murphy of SABR for helping bring everyone together!

Already looking forward to year four! ⚾️

🎉 Happy Birthday to Francisco “Pachy” Castillo!

Pachy has been our go-to guy on the ground in the Dominican Republic since 2019, helping organize our tours and making sure our guests have an unforgettable experience. 🇩🇴⚾

We’re lucky to have him as part of the JapanBall and Extra Innings family!

Happy Birthday to Extra Innings Travel’s Ryan Neighbours! 🎉

Ryan plays a key role behind the scenes at EIT, helping with everything from itineraries and guest communication to keeping our tours running smoothly.

He’s also currently on an incredible year-plus journey around the world and has now reached his 42nd country! Safe travels on the next adventure! 🌎⚾

🇰🇷 This is what our Korean baseball tours are all about!

⚾️ An extended recap video by our wonderful guide, SK:

What Our Korean Baseball Tour Is All About! ⚾️ A recap of our amazing journey in South Korea 🇰🇷 for our annual ...

Across our seven tours in Japan, Korea, and the Netherlands so far this year, we’ve offset a combined 275.75 MT of CO₂ emissions through Sustainable Travel Intl’s verified carbon offset projects 🌱

Good times at the San Jose Giants game last night!

Pregame tailgate and post game fireworks on Harry Potter night and of course, the best churros in the world! It was cool seeing the Giants two dynamic young super prospects, Luis Hernandez and Josuar Gonzales.

- Shane

Congratulations to Jefry Yan 🇩🇴 on his first Major League win with the New York Mets!

Yan is always a guest favorite on our LIDOM Winter Ball tours and also pitched for the Saitama Seibu Lions in NPB!