Recreation Popularity Rankings for Seniors
We’ll introduce recreational activities for seniors in a ranked format.
The focus is on indoor activities that can be enjoyed even by those with weak legs or who have difficulty going out.
If you’re looking for recreation that seniors will enjoy, want games that can be done while seated, or need activities with simple rules, please use this as a reference.
These ideas can also be used during recreation time at day service centers and care facilities.
Let’s create fun moments together.
- [For Seniors] Easy and fun seated activities you can do in your room
- For Seniors: Fun and Lively Exercise Recreation
- [For Seniors] Simple Tabletop Games: Fun and Engaging Recreational Activities
- [For Seniors] Refresh Your Mood! Lively, Get-Moving Games
- Recreation Activities Effective for Long-Term Care Prevention for Seniors
- [For Seniors] Today’s Recommended Activity: Fun and Engaging
- [For Seniors] Simple Recreational Activities You Can Enjoy While Seated
- [For Seniors] Hand and finger play roundup: Finger exercises that lead to brain training
- For Seniors: Effective Recreation for Preventing Care Needs—Have Fun While Staying Healthy
- [For Seniors] Fun and Engaging Recreational Activities in Nursing Homes
- [For Seniors] Recommended Easy Strength Training
- [For Seniors] Have Fun and Relieve Stress! Introducing Dances Everyone Can Enjoy Together
- [For Seniors] Fun Autumn Activities: Recreation Games
Recreation Popularity Rankings for Seniors (41–50)
Paper cup scooping43rank/position
The activity involves using chopsticks to move paper cups toward yourself and competing on how quickly you can bring all the cups over.
It’s important to perform the unique scooping motion smoothly and, once you get a feel for the movement, to increase your speed.
The distinctive motions—touching the tip to the bottom and tipping the cup sideways, or pressing against the side and lifting upward—are also great for wrist exercise.
You can adjust the difficulty by changing the length of the chopsticks, so once participants get used to it, gradually make it harder to keep them more focused and engaged in the game.
Who was the last prime minister of the Showa era?44rank/position
Speaking of the last Prime Minister of the Showa era, it was the 74th, Noboru Takeshita.
During the Takeshita Cabinet, which lasted from November 6, 1987 (Showa 62) to June 3, 1989 (Heisei 1), policies that would greatly influence Japan’s future were implemented, such as the introduction of the consumption tax and the liberalization of U.S.-Japan trade.
In recent years, his grandson, the singer DAIGO, has been very active on variety shows and elsewhere! Some older viewers may have seen him nostalgically share stories about Mr.
Takeshita, beginning with “My grandpa…” Since some people are sensitive about political topics, when presenting this as a quiz, keep it strictly as a name-guessing game and maintain a lighthearted tone.
Test your trivia knowledge!45rank/position
How high is your correct answer rate for questions on TV quiz shows? Whether you’re someone who says, “I’m not good at quizzes,” or someone who’s “pretty confident in trivia,” you can enjoy this: “Test Your Trivia Skills! Three-Choice Trivia Quiz.” There are videos uploaded to video sites that compile quizzes everyone can enjoy—from beginners to experts—such as “How can you stop a sneeze?”, “How do you make old rice taste good?”, and “How can you stop your anger when it’s about to explode?” It also sounds fun to try them together as entertainment at a birthday party!
Intro Quiz46rank/position
The intro quiz has long been a popular recreation game and quiz.
As the name suggests, it’s a quiz where you listen to the beginning of a song—the intro—and guess the title.
Try selecting and playing songs that were popular in the past, especially ones people listened to when they were young.
It might spark lively conversations as everyone reminisces.
Who knows—what starts as an intro quiz might get everyone so excited that it turns into an impromptu karaoke contest!
Sakurada Junko and Mori Masako were called part of the “Hana no Chūsan Trio.” Who was the third member?47rank/position
Showa-era idols are sometimes given special nicknames depending on when and how they debuted.
One such nickname is the “Hana no Chūsan Trio” (the Blossoming Ninth-Graders Trio).
Alongside Junko Sakurada and Masako Mori, who is the third member people think of? Some may immediately recall her knowing that all three were of the same generation and debuted from the audition program Star Tanjō! The answer is Momoe Yamaguchi—a legendary idol who famously retired from show business upon getting married.
When you feel a sneeze coming on, you can stop it by using a certain part of your body. How do you use that body part?48rank/position
You’re about to sneeze in a quiet place… In times like that, knowing this method could come in handy! The spot is a part of your face—close to your nose, where the sneeze comes from.
The answer is to press under your nose with your finger.
If you say it’s the spot Kato-chan from The Drifters presses when he does “Kato-chan, pe!” older people might get it right away.
That said, it seems that stopping a sneeze isn’t very good for your body, so try using this only when you really have to!
What was the summer women’s clothing that became popular from the late Taisho period to the early Showa period?49rank/position
The name of the easy-to-throw-on women’s summer garment that was popular from the late Taisho to the early Showa period was “appappa.” It’s said to come from an Osaka dialect word that describes a skirt flaring out with a “pah.” These days, most fashion-related buzzwords trace their origins to foreign languages, so you can really feel the change of the times in the fact that this one comes from a domestic dialect.
In 1929, when Tokyo was hit by its worst heat wave in 40 years, the appappa also became wildly popular.
My grandmother still calls it an “appappa,” so there may still be people who use the term even now…