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Osaka Dome is a baseball
Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...
 stadium
Stadium

A modern stadium is a place, or venue, for outdoor sports, concerts or other events, consisting of a field or stage partly or completely surrounded by a structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event....
 located in Osaka
Osaka

is a Cities of Japan in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of Honshu.Osaka is a City designated by government ordinance under the Local Autonomy Law and the capital city of Osaka Prefecture....
, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
. Beginning in 1997, the stadium was the home field of the Kintetsu Buffaloes
Kintetsu Buffaloes

The 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 Buffaloes
Orix Buffaloes

The 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 Orix Blue Wave
Orix Blue Wave

The was a Nippon Professional Baseball team based in Kobe, Japan, which played in the Pacific League and was owned by the Orix Group, a Tokyo financial services company....
 and Kintetsu Buffaloes. Prior to the Osaka Dome opening, the Buffaloes played their home games at Fujiidera Stadium
Fujiidera Stadium

Fujiidera 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....
.

Music acts like Janet Jackson
Janet Jackson

Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American recording artist and actress. Born in Gary, Indiana and raised in Encino, Los Angeles, California, she is the youngest child of the Jackson family of musicians....
, Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi is an United States hard rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Fronted by lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi, the group originally achieved large-scale success in the 1980s....
, Aerosmith
Aerosmith

Aerosmith is an United States hard rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston, Massachusetts" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band"....
, Beyoncé, Celine Dion
Celine Dion

C?line Marie Claudette Dion Order of Canada National Order of Quebec is a Canadian singer-songwriter and actor. Born to a large, impoverished family, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband Ren? Ang?lil mortgaged his home to finance her first record....
, The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
, Eagles
Eagles

The Eagles are an American rock music band formed in Los Angeles, California during the early 1970s. The group chose the name Eagles as a nod to The Byrds ....
, Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
, David Bowie
David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
, Billy Joel
Billy Joel

William Martin "Billy" Joel is an United States rock music musician, singer-songwriter, and Classical music composer. He released his first hit song, "Piano Man ", in 1973....
, Madonna
Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
, Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey is an United States singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. She made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and became the first recording artist to have her first five singles top the U.S....
 and The Police
The Police

The Police were an English Power trio Rock music band consisting of Sting , Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland . The band became globally popular in the late 1970s, playing a style of rock that was influenced by jazz, punk rock and reggae music....
 have performed large-scale concerts in this stadium.

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Kyocera

is a Japanese company based in Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan. The company was founded as in 1959 by Kazuo Inamori. It manufactures ceramics and printing-related devices, as well as a comprehensive line of imaging products....
 Corporation have been advertising at Osaka Dome since 2003, Osaka City Dome Company Limited offered Kyocera naming rights of the dome in January 2006.






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Osaka Dome is a baseball
Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...
 stadium
Stadium

A modern stadium is a place, or venue, for outdoor sports, concerts or other events, consisting of a field or stage partly or completely surrounded by a structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event....
 located in Osaka
Osaka

is a Cities of Japan in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of Honshu.Osaka is a City designated by government ordinance under the Local Autonomy Law and the capital city of Osaka Prefecture....
, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
. Beginning in 1997, the stadium was the home field of the Kintetsu Buffaloes
Kintetsu Buffaloes

The 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 Buffaloes
Orix Buffaloes

The 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 Orix Blue Wave
Orix Blue Wave

The was a Nippon Professional Baseball team based in Kobe, Japan, which played in the Pacific League and was owned by the Orix Group, a Tokyo financial services company....
 and Kintetsu Buffaloes. Prior to the Osaka Dome opening, the Buffaloes played their home games at Fujiidera Stadium
Fujiidera Stadium

Fujiidera 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....
.

Music acts like Janet Jackson
Janet Jackson

Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American recording artist and actress. Born in Gary, Indiana and raised in Encino, Los Angeles, California, she is the youngest child of the Jackson family of musicians....
, Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi is an United States hard rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Fronted by lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi, the group originally achieved large-scale success in the 1980s....
, Aerosmith
Aerosmith

Aerosmith is an United States hard rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston, Massachusetts" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band"....
, Beyoncé, Celine Dion
Celine Dion

C?line Marie Claudette Dion Order of Canada National Order of Quebec is a Canadian singer-songwriter and actor. Born to a large, impoverished family, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband Ren? Ang?lil mortgaged his home to finance her first record....
, The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
, Eagles
Eagles

The Eagles are an American rock music band formed in Los Angeles, California during the early 1970s. The group chose the name Eagles as a nod to The Byrds ....
, Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
, David Bowie
David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
, Billy Joel
Billy Joel

William Martin "Billy" Joel is an United States rock music musician, singer-songwriter, and Classical music composer. He released his first hit song, "Piano Man ", in 1973....
, Madonna
Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
, Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey is an United States singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. She made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and became the first recording artist to have her first five singles top the U.S....
 and The Police
The Police

The Police were an English Power trio Rock music band consisting of Sting , Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland . The band became globally popular in the late 1970s, playing a style of rock that was influenced by jazz, punk rock and reggae music....
 have performed large-scale concerts in this stadium.

Naming rights by Kyocera

As Kyocera
Kyocera

is a Japanese company based in Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan. The company was founded as in 1959 by Kazuo Inamori. It manufactures ceramics and printing-related devices, as well as a comprehensive line of imaging products....
 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 (????????)" 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
    Osaka Municipal Subway

    is the rapid transit network in the city of Osaka, Japan, an integral part of the extensive mass transit system of Transport in Greater Osaka , having 125 out of the 1,108 rail stations in the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto region....
     Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line
    Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line

    |}The is a line of the Osaka Municipal Subway, the underground rapid transit system in Osaka, Japan, Japan. It was the first linear motor metro line built in Japan....
    .
  • A 7-minute walk from Taisho Station
    Taisho Station (Osaka)

    There are two stations named in Taisho-ku, Osaka, Osaka, Japan on the West Japan Railway Company Osaka Loop Line and the Osaka Municipal Subway Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line....
     on the West Japan Railway Company
    West Japan Railway Company

    , also referred to as , is one of the Japan Railways Group companies and operates in western Honshu....
     Osaka Loop Line
    Osaka Loop Line

    The 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 Station to Kyuhoji Station was opened on March 15, 2008, and the line from Shigino Station to Shin-Osaka Station is planned to open in 2012....
    .
  • A 9-minute walk from Kujo Station
    Kujo Station (Osaka)

    is a train station on the Osaka Municipal Subway Chuo Line in Nishi-ku, Osaka, Osaka, Japan. The station is assigned the station number C14....
     on the Osaka Municipal Subway
    Osaka Municipal Subway

    is the rapid transit network in the city of Osaka, Japan, an integral part of the extensive mass transit system of Transport in Greater Osaka , having 125 out of the 1,108 rail stations in the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto region....
     Chuo Line
    Chuo Line (Osaka)

    |}The is one of the lines of Osaka Municipal Subway, the rapid transit system in Osaka, Japan, 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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