Yoyogi National Gymnasium
(4 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
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2-1-1 Jinnnan
Tokyo
13 151-0053 Shibuya
Japan
coordinates:
lat 35.6676865, long 139.7000275
Building names(s): Yoyogi National Gymnasium
Architect/Designer: Kenzo Tange
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Completion date: October 1964
Function: stadium
Open Hours: 9am-5pm daily.Program:
Orignially for the 1964 Summer Olympics – diving and swimming.
Currently primarily used for ice hockey and basketball
Capacity: 13,291 people (9,079 stand seats, 4,124 arena seats and 88 “royal box” seats)
website: www.naash.go.jp/yoyogi/ (Japanese only)
Last modified: 2 September, 2010 | Suggested By M2S
(13 votes, average: 4.31 out of 5)
Across the Inokashira Avenue from the Yoyogi Park, this stadium was designed by Kenzo Tange, Japan’s foremost postwar architect. Built for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games, its awesome and daring shell-like steel-suspension roofing has earned it a spot in the Japanese Ministry of Construction’s Top 100 Public Structures of Japan. The stadium seats 8,000 and is used for concerts, mostly rock, as well as sporting events.