Kintetsu Hanazono Rugby Stadium
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| The north side of the Hanazono rugby stadium with the scoreboard. | |
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 Higashiōsaka , Osaka Prefecture , Japan
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| Coordinates | 34 ° 40 '8.3 " N , 130 ° 53' 19.9" E |
| owner | Higashiōsaka city |
| opening | November 22, 1929 |
| Renovations | 1991 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| capacity | 30,000 seats |
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The Hanazono Rugby Stadium the city Higashiōsaka ( Jap. 東大阪市花園ラグビー場, Higashi-Osaka-shi Hanazono ragubī-jō ), before transferring it to the city in 2015 Kintetsu Hanazono Rugby Stadium ( 近鉄花園ラグビー場 , Kintetsu Hanazono ragubī- jō ), is a rugby stadium in the Japanese city of Higashiōsaka , Osaka Prefecture , on the main island of Honshū . It is the home ground of the Kintetsu Liners rugby union team and offers 30,000 seats. The team belongs to the railway company Kinki Nippon Tetsudō , or Kintetsu for short.
history
The stadium was the first stadium in the country to be built specifically for rugby by the Denksaka Denki Kidō (Daiki for short), the forerunner of the Kintetsu. It was ceremonially opened on November 22, 1929 in the presence of the Chichibu couple . Since 1962, it has hosted the final of Japan's annual high school rugby championship during the summer. When it was expanded in 1991, the stadium's capacity was increased from 12,000 to 30,000 seats.
There are two more rugby courts next to the stadium. Course no. 2 is used by the Kintetsu Liners for training and course no. 3 is equipped with an athletics facility. It belongs to the city of Higashiōsaka and is the official location of the Japanese Athletics Federation (Nihon Rikuren, JAAF). Next door is the Hanazono Chūō-Kōen baseball stadium, which was completed in 2006 and was planned for the second team of the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes , but was no longer needed after their merger with Orix BlueWave in 2004 to form the Orix Buffaloes .
The stadium is intended to be one of twelve venues for the 2019 Rugby Union World Cup .
Web links
- hos-ragby.com: Kintetsu Hanazono Rugby Stadium (Japanese)
- kintetsu-g-hd.co.jp: Official website of the Kintetsu Liners (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of Kintetsu ( Memento of October 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )