Osaka Dome (大阪ドーム) is a
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located in
Osakais a city in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of Honshū.Osaka is a City in Japan and also is designated city under the Local Autonomy Law and the capital city of Osaka Prefecture...
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. Beginning in 1997, the stadium was the home field of the
Kintetsu BuffaloesThe was a Nippon Professional Baseball team based in Osaka, Japan, which were in the Pacific League. The team was owned by Kinki Nippon Railway Co. and later sold to the Orix Group, the owner of the Orix BlueWave baseball team, in 2004...
. In 2005, the stadium became one of the homes of the
Orix BuffaloesThe are a Nippon Professional Baseball team based in Osaka and Kobe, Japan. They play in the Pacific League. The team is owned by the Orix Group, a leading diversified financial services company based in Tokyo....
as a result of the merger of the
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and Kintetsu Buffaloes. Prior to the Osaka Dome opening, the Buffaloes played their home games at
Fujiidera StadiumFujiidera Stadium was a multi-use stadium in Osaka, Japan. It is currently used mostly for baseball and was the home of the Kintetsu Buffaloes prior to the Osaka Dome opening in 1997. The stadium holds 32,000 people. The stadium was built in 1928, and closed in 2005...
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Hanshin TigersThe are a Nippon Professional Baseball team based in Koshien, Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, and are in the Central League. Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd., the subsidiary of Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Inc., owns the Hanshin Tigers directly...
also uses the stadium as their "home field" for their season opener and games in August due to the unavailablility to Koushien Stadium which used to held
high school baseball tournmentsIn Japan, high school baseball generally refers to the 2 annual baseball tournaments played by high schools nationwide culminating at a final showdown at Hanshin Kōshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Japan...
on that time.
Osaka Dome was the sight of the debut of
Eri Yoshidais a high-school student at Kawasaki-kita Senior High School in Kawasaki, who at the age of 16 became the first female drafted by a Japanese professional baseball team, Kobe 9 Cruise of Kansai Independent Baseball League, to play alongside male teammates....
for the Kobe 9 Cruise in the opening game of the
Kansai Independent Baseball LeagueThe is a professional baseball league in Japan. Its debut season was in .The league's activities became public in 2008. Plans to form the league were announced at a press conference on March 6. On July 30, the names of the four teams were released....
on March 26, 2009. Attendance for the game was 11,592.
Music acts like Arashi,
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and
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have performed large-scale concerts in this stadium.
On March 16, 2010 the arena will host the worlds number selling one back catalogue act, Autralian heavy weights,
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Naming rights by Kyocera
As
Kyocerais a multinational manufacturer based in Kyoto, Japan. It was founded as in 1959 by Kazuo Inamori and renamed in 1982. The company has diversified its founding technology in ceramic materials through internal development as well as strategic mergers and acquisitions...
Corporation have been advertising at Osaka Dome since 2003, Osaka City Dome Company Limited offered Kyocera naming rights of the dome in January 2006. On March 2, 2006, Kyocera captured the naming rights of the dome and it was scheduled to be named "
Kyocera Dome Osaka (京セラドーム大阪)" on April 1. However, because of the reorganization of the Dome Company, the contract entering was delayed and the naming was on July 1.
The name "
Kyocera Dome Osaka" is used until March 31, 2011.
Access
- A short walk from Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station on the Osaka Municipal Subway
is the metro network in the city of Osaka, Japan, an integral part of the extensive mass transit system of Greater Osaka , having 125 out of the 1,108 rail stations in the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto region. It is operated by Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau...
Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line|}The is a line of the Osaka Municipal Subway, the underground rapid transit system in Osaka, Japan. It was the first linear motor metro line built in Japan.-History:...
and Dome-mae Station on the Hanshin Railway Hanshin Namba Line.
- A 7-minute walk from Taisho Station
There are two stations named in Taisho-ku, Osaka, Japan on the West Japan Railway Company Osaka Loop Line and the Osaka Municipal Subway Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line.-Lines:*West Japan Railway Company Osaka Loop Line...
on the JR West, also referred to as , is one of the Japan Railways Group companies and operates in western Honshū.-History:JR West was incorporated as a business corporation on April 1, 1987 as part of the breakup of government-owned Japanese National Railways...
Osaka Loop LineThe is a railway line in Japan operated by West Japan Railway Company . It encircles central Osaka.The second loop line, the Osaka Higashi Line, from Hanaten to Kyuhoji was opened on March 15, 2008, and the line from Shigino to Shin-Ōsaka is planned to open in 2012.-Outline:This loop line consists...
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- A 9-minute walk from Kujo Station
is a train station on the Osaka Municipal Subway Chūō Line and the Hanshin Railway Hanshin Namba Line in Nishi-ku, Osaka, Japan.-Osaka Municipal Subway Chuo Line:...
on the Osaka Municipal Subway Chūō Line|}The is one of the lines of Osaka Municipal Subway, the rapid transit system in Osaka City, Japan.The line runs east-westerly under .Together with the through operation to the Kintetsu Keihanna Line, the two lines have a unified nickname ....
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