Kobe Sports Park Baseball Stadium Explained

Hotto Motto Field Kobe
Native Name:ほっともっとフィールド神戸
Native Name Lang:ja
Publictransit: Kobe Municipal Subway:
Seishin-Yamate Line at
Opened:March 6, 1988
Location:Kobe Sports Park, Suma-ku, Kobe, Japan
Coordinates:34.6807°N 135.0734°W
Owner:Kobe City
Operator:Orix Baseball Club
Tenants:Orix Bluewave/Orix Buffaloes (Pacific League/NPB, 1991–2004, secondary home 2005–:)
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles (Pacific League/NPB 2011 (temporary))
Dimensions:left field: 99.1 m (325 ft)
center: 122 m (400 ft)
right field: 99.1 m (325 ft)

or officially Hotto Motto Field Kobe is a baseball park in Kobe Sports Park, Kobe, Japan. It is primarily used for baseball, and is one of two home fields for the Orix Buffaloes, the other being the Kyocera Dome Osaka.

The Kobe stadium is occasionally used when the Osaka Dome hosts Hanshin Tigers games, due to their home field, Koshien Stadium, being used for the Spring Koshien and Summer Koshien baseball tournaments.

The stadium's field is one of three ballparks in Japan to have an American-style baseball field,: An all-grass outfield and infield, with dirt basepaths. It opened on March 6, 1988 and holds 35,000 people.

Sponsoring names of Kobe Sports Park Baseball Stadium

Kobe Baseball Stadium is the first baseball park in Japan to install naming rights.

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.city.kobe.lg.jp/information/press/2011/02/20110207300201.html Kobe City website
  2. http://www.plenus.co.jp/new/index.php?action=pdf&id=288 Plenus Co., Ltd. website