Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
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35°40′46.9″N 139°42′45.0″E / 35.679694°N 139.712500°E
Kokuritsu-kyogijo | |
Owner | Tokyo Metropolitan Government |
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Capacity | 10,000 |
Construction | |
Broke ground | 1952 |
Opened | 1954 |
Renovated | 1990 |
Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium (東京体育館, Tōkyō Taiikukan) is a sporting complex in
The gymnasium is a one-minute walk from
Description and events
The main arena includes a large indoor arena that hosts national and international sporting events. The arena holds 10,000 people (6,000 fixed, 4,000 temporary). An incomplete list of events held in the arena include:
- Tokyo Indoor men's tennis
- Toray Pan Pacific Tennis Championships were held every February here, but from 2008 it has been held in the Ariake Coliseum;
- Japan Table Tennis Championships;
- The first two international hosted regular season NBA games between the Phoenix Suns and Utah Jazzon November 2 & 3, 1990.;
- V.League;
- Suntory Cup All Japan School Volleyball Rally;
- AeonCup World Rhythmic Gymnastics Club Championships;
- World Full Contact Karate Open Championships; as the Shinkyokushinkai Karate World Open Tournament -held every four years-;
- Miki Prune Super College Volleyball.
- 2007 World Figure Skating Championships
- Final Four of the official 2010 Women's Volleyball World Championship
- 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
- 2017 TWICE Japan Debut Showcase "Touchdown in Japan"
- 2019 ITTF Team World Cup
- 2021 Olympic Summer Games, Table Tennis[2]
- 2022 &TEAM DEBUT SHOWCASE [First Howling : ME]
- 2023 Taeyeon Concert - 'The ODD of LOVE' in Japan[3][4]
Since 2000, the arena has also been used as a concert venue. The first artist to perform there was the Japanese group Porno Graffitti.
The sub-arena houses an olympic size (50mX20m, eight lanes) swimming pool with seating for 900 people. The Japan Waterpolo Championships is held here. There is also a 25m pool (25mX13m, 6 lanes), an outdoor oval running track; a weight training room, and conference rooms.
Since April 1, 2006, the Tokyo Lifelong Learning and Culture Foundation (東京都生涯学習文化財団), along with Suntory (サントリー株式会社), Tipness (株式会社ティップネス) and O-ence (株式会社オーエンス), manage the gymnasium.
On April 25 and 26, 2015, American singer-songwriter
On July 8 and 9, 2023, South Korean singer Taeyeon brought 2023 Taeyeon Concert - 'The ODD of LOVE' in Japan to the venue with two shows.[4]
Fees
From June 1, 2006, the fees for use of the facilities will be:
- training gym/2 hours: 450 yen
- pool/2 hours 600 yen:
- pool (junior high school students and younger)/2 hours: 260 yen
- training gym and pool/2 hours: 1000 yen
- training gym, pool and dance studio/1 day: 2500 yen
- one month pass: 7800 yen
See also
References
- ^ "Venue Plan". Tokyo 2020 Bid Committee. Archived from the original on 27 July 2013. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
- ^ "Table Tennis - Women's Singles Schedule | Tokyo 2020 Olympics". Archived from the original on 2021-10-06. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
- ^ "テヨン 日本ソロコンサート 『TAEYEON CONCERT – The ODD Of LOVE in JAPAN』 開催決定!". TAEYEON JAPAN OFFICIAL WEB – テヨン公式サイト (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-05-09.
- ^ a b "少女時代テヨン、4年ぶり単独来日公演で1万6000人魅了 日本オリジナル曲も歌唱" [Girls' Generation Taeyeon attracts 16,000 people for her first solo performance in Japan in 4 years.] (in Japanese). Oricon News. 2023-07-10. Archived from the original on 2023-07-10. Retrieved 2023-07-10.
External links
- 1964 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1. Part 1. pp. 120–1.
- Official Site
- Satellite photo of the gymnasium from Google Maps
- Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium at Archiplanet