Saitama Super Arena
Saitama Super Arena | |
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The Saitama Super Arena in September 2006 | |
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place | Chūō-ku , Saitama , Saitama Prefecture , Japan |
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) |
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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
- saitama-arena.co.jp: Official website (Japanese, English)
- setlist.fm: Concert list of the Saitama Super Arena (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ japanvisitor.com: John Lennon Museum (English)
- ↑ 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).