Meiji Jingu Stadium

Kokutetsu Swallows / Sankei atom / atom Yakult / Tōkyō Yakult Swallows ( Central League ) since 1964 Toei Flyers (Pacific League) from 1962 to 1963, then to 1980 as a second stadium

Abbreviated Meiji- jingū Yakyūjō (Japanese明治 神宫 野 球场), the " Meiji Shrine - ballpark ", mostly as Jingū KYUJO (神宫 球场, " Jingū [ base ] ball stadium " ), is a baseball stadium in Shinjuku district, prefecture Tokyo. It is now the home of the Yakult Swallows Tōkyō from the Central League and host of the six universities of Tokyo, the Tōto University Baseball League ( Tōto is the eastern part of Tokyo prefecture ) and the national college baseball championship. First opened in 1926 stadium holds 35,000 spectators and is located in Tokyo's Kasumigaokamachi between the National Stadium in the northwest and the Prince Chichibu Rugby Stadium in the southeast. After two years earlier opened Koshien it is the oldest operating Profibaseballstadtion Japan.

The stadium was rebuilt several times, most recently in 2008. Originally, the capacity was around 31,000, according to a conversion in 1931, in which the stands were significantly enlarged, the official figure was around 58,000. At first it was used mainly for the six universities of Tokyo, from 1927 was also the Toshi - Taiko baseball tournament (English Intercity Baseball Tournament ) between teams from big cities out here wearing but in 1938 moved into the Korakuen Stadium. On 10 May 1931 the day after the completion of the expansion reconstruction, in a game of six universities 70,000 spectators were accommodated in the stadium. 1932 took the Tōto Baseball Association (then Chūō University, Nihon University, Senshu University, Kokugakuin University, University of Agriculture, Tokyo) operating in the League Jingū Stadium on. 1934 played the gas- animal border from the United States in Japan Major League All-Star team, among others, with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in Jingū Stadium a game against the large Japanese Baseball Club Tokyo, the later Yomiuri Giants, and another game mixed as Ruth team against [ Bing ] Miller team.

In the Pacific War, the stadium was severely damaged by air raids during the occupation, it was seized by the military and was under the name Stateside Park initially reserved for the occupation forces, but was soon made accessible again for Tokyo. Individual University Games were held again in early autumn 1945. In November 1945 against West ( Hanshin, Hankyu, Kinki, Asahi ) was an All -Star game is still exposed in this year 's professional league as East ( Senator Kyojin, Nagoya, ) instead. 1946/47, construction works were performed for repair. The first regular league game in Jingū Stadium took place in 1948. Regularly, the professional league since 1962 in Jingū Stadium home when first moved in the Toei Flyers for two years, then in 1964 the Kokutetsu Swallows moved from the Korakuen Stadium here.