Saitama Super Arena

Saitama Super Arena
The Saitama Super Arena in September 2006
Data
place	Chūō-ku , Saitama , Saitama Prefecture , Japan
Coordinates	35 ° 53 '41.9 "  N , 139 ° 37' 50.7"  E Coordinates: 35 ° 53 '41.9 "  N , 139 ° 37' 50.7"  E
opening	September 1, 2000
surface	Parquet ice PVC - Flooring
capacity	37,000 places (maximum) 19,000–22,500 places (basketball, volleyball, tennis, ice hockey, gymnastics, martial arts)
Societies)
Saitama Broncos ( bj league )
Events
Basketball World Cup 2006 World Figure Skating Championships 2014 Concerts

The Saitama Super Arena ( Japanese さ い た ま ス ー パ ー ア リ ー ナ , Saitama Sūpā Arīna ) is a multifunctional hall in the Chūō-ku district of the Japanese city ​​of Saitama , Saitama Prefecture . The arena is used for various events such as sports and concerts.

The arena was opened in 2000 and is 66 meters high. It can accommodate up to 37,000 spectators, but can be made smaller. It won the Business Week / Architectural Record Award for the technical construction, which allows the hall and public areas to be completely restructured within hours . The building housed a John Lennon Museum from October 2000 to September 30, 2010 .

When on March 19, 2011 after the tsunami of the Tōhoku earthquake and the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, the population of the city of Futaba had to be resettled, they were housed in the arena until March 30.

Host for international sporting events

• 2000 found NHL - Hockey between the Nashville Predators and Pittsburgh Penguins held.
• 2003 found two NBA - Basketball games between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Los Angeles Clippers instead.
• In 2006 the final games of the basketball world championship took place there.
• In 2014 the World Figure Skating Championships took place there.

Host to national sporting events

• In 2007 the finals of the Japanese high school championships in volleyball took place there.

Web links

Commons : Saitama Super Arena  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• saitama-arena.co.jp: Official website (Japanese, English)
• setlist.fm: Concert list of the Saitama Super Arena (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ japanvisitor.com: John Lennon Museum (English)
2. ↑ 福島 ・ 双 葉 町 、 避難 先 を 埼 玉 ・ 加 須 市 に 移動 . In: 日 テ レ NEWS24. Nippon Terebi Hōsōmō , March 31, 2011, archived from the original on August 2, 2011 ; Retrieved August 2, 2011 (Japanese).