Kobe Sports Park Baseball Stadium

Kobe Sports Park Baseball Stadium
Hotto Motto Field Kobe

from the outfield bleachers
Location Kobe Sports Park, Suma-ku, Kobe, Japan
Coordinates 34°40′50.37″N 135°4′24.3″E / 34.6806583°N 135.073417°E / 34.6806583; 135.073417Coordinates: 34°40′50.37″N 135°4′24.3″E / 34.6806583°N 135.073417°E / 34.6806583; 135.073417
Owner Kobe City
Operator Orix Baseball Club
Field size left field: 99.1 m
center: 122 m
right field: 99.1 m
Opened March 6, 1988
Tenants

Orix Bluewave/Orix Buffaloes (Pacific League/NPB, 1991 - 2004, 2006: home, 2005, 2007-: pre-home)

Kobe Sports Park Baseball Stadium
(Hotto Motto Field Kobe)

Kobe Sports Park Baseball Stadium (神戸総合運動公園野球場 Kōbe Sōgō-Undō-Kōen Yakyūjō) is a baseball park in Kobe Sports Park, Kobe, Japan. It is primarily used for baseball, and is one of two home fields for the Orix Buffaloes, the other being the Kyocera Dome Osaka. The stadium also occasionally hosts Hanshin Tigers when their home field of Koshien Stadium is unavailable.

The stadium's field is one of three ballparks in Japan to have an American-style baseball field: An all-grass outfield and infield, with dirt basepaths. It opened on March 6, 1988 and holds 35,000 people.

Sponsoring names of Kobe Sports Park Baseball Stadium

Kobe Baseball Stadium is the first baseball park in Japan to install naming rights.

Access

See also

References

  1. Kobe City website - February 7, 2011
  2. Plenus Co., Ltd. website - February 7, 2011


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