The Tokorozawa Shooting Range is a

firing range A shooting range, firing range, gun range or shooting ground is a specialized facility, venue or field designed specifically for firearm usage qualifications, training, practice or competitions. Some shooting ranges are operated by militar ...

located in

Tokorozawa, Saitama is a city located in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 344,194 in 163,675 households and a population density of 4800 persons per km². The total area of the city is . Geography Tokorozawa is located in the ...

, Japan. It hosted the

trap shooting Trap shooting, or trapshooting in North America, is one of the three major disciplines of competitive clay pigeon shooting, which is shooting shotguns at clay targets. The other disciplines are skeet shooting and sporting clays. They are disting ...

part of the

shooting Shooting is the act or process of discharging a projectile from a ranged weapon (such as a gun, bow, crossbow, slingshot, or blowpipe). Even the acts of launching flame, artillery, darts, harpoons, grenades, rockets, and guided missiles ...

events for the 1964 Summer Olympics in neighboring

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References

1964 Summer Olympics official report.
Volume 1. Part 1. pp. 138–9. Venues of the 1964 Summer Olympics Olympic shooting venues Shooting ranges in Japan Defunct sports venues in Japan Sports venues in Saitama Prefecture Buildings and structures in Tokorozawa, Saitama {{Summer-Olympic-venue-stub