Kintetsu Hanazono Rugby Stadium

The Kintetsu Hanazono Rugby Stadium (Japanese近鉄花園ラグビー場, kintetsu hanazono ragubī - jo ) is a rugby stadium for 30,000 spectators in HigashiOsaka in the prefecture of Osaka. It is the home of the Kintetsu Liners. Team and stadium include the railway company Kinki Nippon tetsudō, short Kintetsu.

The stadium was the country's first stadium for rugby from the Osaka Denki Kido (abbreviated: Daiki ) specifically, the forerunner of the Kintetsu built. In the presence of the Prince Chichibu pair it was inaugurated on 22 November 1929.

Since 1962, it is the venue for the finals of the annual Rugby Championship of high schools in Japan in the summer. With a development In 1991, the capacity of the stadium was increased from 12,000 to 30,000 seats.

Next to the stadium there are two other rugby sites: ranked No. 2 is used by the Kintetsu Liners for training; Ranked No. 3 is equipped with a running track, a part of the city HigashiOsaka and is the official site of the Japanese Association of Athletics Federations (Nihon Rikuren, JAAF ). Next door is also finished in 2006, Hanazono Chūō - Kōen baseball stadium, which was scheduled for the second team of the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes, but was no longer needed after their merger in 2004 with the Orix BlueWave Orix Buffaloes to.