Kickboxing Gym Near Me in Musashi-Koyama: K-1 Gym Meguro's Basement

K-1 Gym Meguro opened in August 2013 as the very first gym run directly by K-1, and it still trains in a basement: unit B101 of World Palace Musashi-Koyama at 3-6-6 Koyama, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 142-0062, five minutes on foot from Musashi-Koyama Station on the Tokyu Meguro Line. Regular memberships cost ¥12,100 a month for men and women alike, and the doors open at 11:00 every day. If your search for a kickboxing gym near me is really a search for a place with structured levels and gradings, this is the branch to look at first.

The gym's own directions are worth following exactly, because the entrance is round the back. Leave Musashi-Koyama Station by the east exit, keeping the ticket gates behind you and turning left, go up the escalator and follow the street to the left for about 200 metres to a T-junction. Carry straight on for another 100 metres until you face a bicycle park with a curry restaurant diagonally to your left, then turn right.

Walk roughly 100 more metres and, just past an apartment building, you will see the K-1 GYM Meguro sign. The way in is not at the front: go round behind the sign to find a staircase leading down to the basement entrance. Members say the strong water pressure in the showers is one of the gym's quiet pleasures, and you will understand why after an hour underground on the bags.

Representative Yasuhiro Uchida writes on the gym's site that Meguro was K-1 GYM's first directly managed branch. He frames the chain's purpose as turning K-1 from a sport people watch into one they do, open to all ages, with children's classes teaching patience and manners through martial arts and adult classes aimed at improving quality of life. Members refer to him as the chairman, and he still appears on the trainer list.

The coaching team includes Kazuki Fujita and Riki, both on the gym's professional roster, and Rumi Nakamura, a former Shoot Boxing Japan women's flyweight champion. The gym's fighters in 2026 also include Kosuzu and Mona Kimura, whose bouts it promoted on its news page in September. One member wrote that she joined the day after a free trial with Fujita because he made the session fun and clear.

What sets Meguro apart is its grading system. Classes are split into introductory, beginner and intermediate levels, and members sit regular promotion tests, the same way karate students earn belts, before moving up a class. A member who joined to lose weight writes that the step-by-step system let her progress at her own pace, that a year later she won a K-1 amateur bout, and that she now keeps herself five to six kilograms below her pre-gym weight.

Another member, who already had martial arts experience, joined because the gym taught kickboxing and karate under one roof, and praises the trainers' logical demonstrations. A man who had just moved to Musashi-Koyama spotted the sign on his way to the post office, tried a session and joined the same day. The gym is often described as homely, with plenty of members making friends there.

The timetable is broad. Alongside the K-1 introductory and beginner classes there is a boxing class that concentrates on punch combinations and defensive footwork with no sparring, a budo karate class covering forms, partner drills and self-defence, a kids' karate class that begins with greetings and etiquette, and a junior K-1 class. For recovery and mobility there are yoga and Pilates sessions, and the women's plans include a ladies' fitness class and K-1 FIT FIGHT.

Personal lessons last 45 minutes and are run by active professional fighters or trainers, covering kickboxing technique, conditioning or weight loss. They are for regular members only and fully reservation-based. Tickets come in sheets of stamps, with five for ¥11,000, eleven for ¥22,000 and twenty-three for ¥44,000; men use three stamps per session and women two, and a single personal ticket is ¥4,400.

The joining fee is ¥11,000 and the registration fee ¥2,500. Regular men and women pay ¥12,100 a month, women can choose a twice-a-week plan for ¥9,900, junior high and high school students pay ¥8,800, and children aged 3 to 12 pay ¥7,700. When you join you pay two months up front, or half a month plus one month if you join after the 15th; the gym gives ¥31,100 as a typical starting total for a regular member, depending on any campaign.

A private locker is ¥1,100 a month and every member pays ¥2,200 a year for sports accident insurance, covering April to March. The visitor ticket costs ¥4,400 in cash, but here it is restricted to people with previous experience; complete beginners cannot use it and must start with a trial instead. That is the one rule that most often surprises people visiting from abroad.

Opening hours are 11:00 to 22:00 on weekdays, 11:00 to 19:00 on Saturdays and 11:00 to 16:00 on Sundays and public holidays. You can watch any time during those hours without booking, except during the pro class, and you can join or leave a class partway through. The free trial is booked by phone on 03-6426-2377 or by email, and covers stretching, shadowboxing, mitt work and a cool-down.

Members can pause for up to three months by handing in a form by the 5th, with the break starting on the 1st of the next month. The gym will not remind you when a pause ends, and you cannot pause again for a month after returning. Leaving or pausing has to be done in person, as phone, email, postcard or fax requests are not accepted.

Meguro suits people who like progress they can measure, and families who want karate for children and kickboxing for adults in one place. It suits short-term visitors less well, because the visitor ticket needs experience and the gym closes at 16:00 on Sundays. Its basement is also more compact than the newer branches.

If you are staying near the Yamanote Line, K-1 Gym Gotanda is one minute from JR Gotanda Station, open until 22:00 on weekdays and sells visitor tickets to beginners too, at the same ¥4,400. Choose Meguro for the gradings, the karate and the 11:00 opening, and Gotanda for convenience on the main line.

Musashi-Koyama Station opens straight onto Musashi-Koyama Shopping Street Palm, a long covered arcade of grocers, cafes, bakeries and inexpensive restaurants that stays busy into the evening, so a post-training meal is never far away. Under its roof you can walk the whole length in any weather, which helps on rainy training days.

Further east, Togoshi-Ginza is one of Tokyo's longest shopping streets, lined with croquette stands, tea shops and old family businesses, and it makes a good walk on a Saturday after the 11:00 class. From there, the Tokyu Ikegami Line at Togoshi-Ginza Station runs directly to Gotanda.

Address: K-1 Gym Meguro, World Palace Musashi-Koyama B101, 3-6-6 Koyama, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 142-0062; the entrance is down the stairs behind the street sign. Phone: 03-6426-2377. Access: five minutes from Musashi-Koyama Station, east exit. Hours: weekdays 11:00 to 22:00, Saturday 11:00 to 19:00, Sundays and holidays 11:00 to 16:00. Regular members ¥12,100 a month, students ¥8,800, children ¥7,700; visitor ¥4,400 for experienced trainees only.