is an indoor sporting arena in located in Ariake,

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, Japan. It has a capacity of 10,000 and is one of the few professional tennis venues which has a

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The arena is used as the center court for the Japan Open and the

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, held in Ariake Tennis Forest Park. This venue will also host

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24, instead of Ryogoku Kokugikan. The venue also hosted the

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events for the 2020 Summer Olympics. In 1995, Fuji TV's hit cooking show ''

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'' held its 1995 World Cup there, with the court converted into an outdoor version of Kitchen Stadium. Iron Chef Japanese

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, Gianfranco Vissani and Xu Cheng. This was also the homeground arena for

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from the year 2000 with destiny 2000, since then they have been doing shows till 2015

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