Komazawa Olympic Park

The Olympic Park Komazawa (Japanese駒沢 オリンピック 公園, Komazawa orimpikku kōen ), officially today "general sports ground Olympic Park Komazawa " (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 sporting venues in the district of Setagaya Ward in the eastern Japanese prefecture Tokyo. It has an area of around 41 hectares and is dominated by residential areas in the south-west of Tokyo.

Originally created as a golf course system should be redesigned in preparation for the Olympic Summer Games in 1940 and its principal place of competition venues. However, the Empire gave the games in 1938, a year after the war began, back. After the Pacific War, the Toei Flyers made ​​the park their home in 1953, in September, the Komazawa ballpark ( Komazawa yakyūjō ) was opened with seating for 20,000 spectators. As Tokyo then the Summer Olympics were awarded in 1964, acquired the prefecture 1962, the area and built many sports venues, in which, inter alia football and volleyball games were played at the games.

The biggest investments are:

• The Komazawa Athletics Stadium ( Komazawa rikujō kyōgijō ) in the east of the park,
• The Komazawa Gymnasium ( Komazawa taiikukan ) west of it and
• The Komazawa ball sports stadiums Nos. 1 and 2 ( Komazawa daiichi / daini kyūgijō ) in the north.

The old stadium was demolished Komazawa; in the west of the park is since 1965 a small baseball stadium, which is used primarily for university baseball.

The park forms as Komazawa Kōen ( " Komazawa Park " ) has its own neighborhood in Setagaya, with the eastern part of the Olympic Park extends into the neighborhoods Higashigaoka and Yakumo in the district of Meguro. Just north of the park is the main campus of the private Komazawa University, a little further north is the same station and at the Den'entoshi line. To the east of the park is a central government hospital, the "Medical Center Tokyo " ( Tōkyō iryo center).