The Nagoya Dome (ナゴヤドーム), known as Vantelin Dome Nagoya (バンテリンドームナゴヤ) for sponsoring reasons, is a

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...

field, constructed in 1997, located in the city of

Nagoya is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city and third most populous urban area in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020. Located on the Pacific coast in central Honshu, it is the capital and the most po ...

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. The dome has the capacity to seat up to 40,500 for sports and 49,000 for concerts. It is an example of a

geodesic dome A geodesic dome is a hemispherical thin-shell structure (lattice-shell) based on a geodesic polyhedron. The triangular elements of the dome are structurally rigid and distribute the structural stress throughout the structure, making geodesic do ...

It has served as HQ for the

Chunichi Dragons The are a professional baseball team based in Nagoya, the chief city in the Chūbu region of Japan. The team plays in the Central League of Nippon Professional Baseball. They have won the Central League pennant nine times (most recently in 2011) ...

baseball team, since its opening. It has also served baseball teams

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and

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, sometimes during the year. Official theme song for The Nagoya Dome, "Here For You", was written by local FM radio disk jockey, James Havens, and also released on CD by Victor Entertainment.

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* Nagoya Municipal Subway

Meijō Line The is a subway line forming part of the Nagoya Municipal Subway system in Nagoya, Japan, operated by Transportation Bureau City of Nagoya. It is a loop line that runs from Kanayama, via Sakae, Ōzone, Nagoya Daigaku, and back to Kanaya ...

, Nagoya GuideWay-Bus Yutorito Line **

Nagoya Dome-mae Yada Station is a railway station in Higashi-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It provides access to Nagoya Dome, where baseball games and various other large public events are held in Nagoya. Lines * ** (Station number: M13) *Nagoya Guideway Bus ** ...

Meitetsu Seto Line The is a Japanese railway line which connects in Higashi-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture with in Seto, Aichi. It is owned and operated by the private railway operator Meitetsu. Stations Rolling stock * 3300 series (since 17 September 2016 ...

** Yada Station *

Central Japan Railway Company is the main railway company operating in the Chūbu (Nagoya) region of central Japan. It is officially abbreviated in English as JR Central and in Japanese as JR Tōkai ( ja, JR東海, links=no). ''Tōkai'' is a reference to the geographical ...

Chūō Main Line The , commonly called the Chūō Line, is one of the major trunk railway lines in Japan. It connects Tokyo and Nagoya, although it is the slowest direct railway connection between the two cities; the coastal Tōkaidō Main Line is slightly faste ...

, Nagoya Municipal Subway

, Nagoya GuideWay-Bus Yutorito Line **

Ōzone Station is a railway station in Kita-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Lines * Nagoya Municipal Subway **Meijō Line (Station number: M12) *Central Japan Railway Company ** Chūō Main Line *Nagoya Railroad **Meitetsu Seto Line The is a Japa ...

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References

Sources

Takenaka Corporation web page on the construction of the Nagoya Dome

External links

Nagoya Dome website
Sports venues completed in 1997 Sports venues in Nagoya Covered stadiums in Japan Baseball venues in Japan Geodesic domes High-tech architecture Chunichi Dragons 1997 establishments in Japan {{Japan-baseball-venue-stub

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