Komazawa Olympic Park
The Komazawa Olympic Park ( Jap. 駒沢オリンピック公園, Komazawa orimpikku kōen ), today officially "general sports grounds Komazawa Olympic Park" ( 駒沢オリンピック公園総合運動場, Komazawa orimpikku kōen Sogo undōjō ) is a park with several sports facilities in the district of Setagaya in eastern Japanese prefecture Tokyo . It has an area of around 41 hectares and is located in southwest Tokyo, which is dominated by residential areas .
The site in Komazawa , a south-western suburb of Tokyo incorporated in 1932 as a golf course, was laid out in 1913 as a golf course and was to be redesigned in preparation for the 1940 Summer Olympics and used as the main competition venue. However, the German Empire returned the Games in 1938, one year after the start of the war. After the Pacific War, the Tōei Flyers made the park their home in 1953, and the Komazawa baseball stadium ( Komazawa yakyūjō ) opened in September with space for 20,000 spectators. When Tokyo was awarded the Summer Olympics in 1964 , the prefecture acquired the site in 1962 and built several sports facilities in which, among other things, football, hockey and volleyball games were played.
The largest plants are:
- the Komazawa [-Olympiapark-general-sports-area] -athletics stadium ( Komazawa [olympic kōen sōgō undōjō] rikujō kyōgijō , 駒 沢 [オ リ ン ピ ッ ク 公園 総 合 運動場] 陸上 競技場 ) in the east of the park,
- the Komazawa sports hall ( Komazawa taiikukan ) west of it and
- the Komazawa ball sports stadiums No. 1 and 2 ( Komazawa daiichi / daini kyūgijō ) in the north.
The old Komazawa Stadium was demolished; in the west of the park there has been a small baseball stadium since 1965, which is mainly used for university baseball.
The majority of the Olympic Park forms as Komazawa-Kōen ("Komazawa Park") its own district with 0.34 km² (34 ha) area and the postal code 154-0013 in Setagaya, with the eastern part of the Olympic Park in the districts of Higashigaoka and Yakumo im Meguro district reaches into it. Immediately north of the park is the main campus of the private Komazawa University , a little further north is the station of the same name on the Den'entoshi line . East of the park is a central hospital, the "Tokyo Medical Center" ( Tōkyō iryō center ).
Web links
- Tōkyō-to Sports Bunka Jigyōdan ("Tokyo Prefecture Sports and Culture Group", a non-profit foundation ( kōeki zaidan hōjin ) that operates several sports facilities on behalf of the prefecture): Komazawa Olympic Park (Japanese, English )
Individual evidence
- ↑ 東京 ゴ ル フ 倶 楽 部 (Tōkyō Golf Club; later moved to Asaka in Saitama, even later to Sayama, but kept his name): History
- ↑ 1964 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1, Part 1, pp. 117ff
- ↑ Tokyo Prefectural Government , General Affairs Office, Statistics Department: Censuses , Residents by Parish and District 2010 [also includes area], Setagaya-ku (Japanese, excel)
- ^ JP Post : Postal Code Directory, Tōkyō-to> Setagaya-ku> Komazawa-kōen
Competition venues for the 1964 Summer Olympics
Coordinates: 35 ° 37 ′ 30.5 ″ N , 139 ° 39 ′ 42.8 ″ E