or officially Hotto Motto Field Kobe is a baseball park in Kobe Sports Park,

Kobe, Japan Kobe ( ; , ), officially , is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. With a population of around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's List of Japanese cities by population, seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Port of Toky ...

. It is primarily used for

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch ...

, and is one of two home fields for the

Orix Buffaloes The are a Nippon Professional Baseball team formed as a result of the 2004 Nippon Professional Baseball realignment by the merger of the Orix BlueWave of Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, and the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes of Osaka, Osaka Prefecture ...

, the other being the

Kyocera Dome Osaka The (official name: ) is a baseball stadium located in Osaka, Osaka, Japan. Opened in 1997, the stadium was the home field of the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes. In 2005, the stadium became one of the homes of the Orix Buffaloes, a result of the merg ...

. The Kobe stadium is occasionally used when the Osaka Dome hosts

Hanshin Tigers The are a Nippon Professional Baseball team playing in the Central League. The team is based in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, next to their main stadium, Hanshin Koshien Stadium. The Tigers are owned by Hanshin Electric Railway Co., ...

games, due to their home field,

Koshien Stadium , commonly referred to as simply Koshien Stadium, is a baseball stadium located near Kobe in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. The stadium was built to host the national high school baseball tournaments, and opened on 1 August 1924. It was ...

, 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

*1988–2002: Green Stadium Kobe (グリーンスタジアム神戸) *2003–2004: Yahoo! BB Stadium (Yahoo! BBスタジアム) *2005–2010: Skymark Stadium (スカイマークスタジアム) *2011–: Hotto Motto Field Kobe (ほっともっとフィールド神戸)Plenus Co., Ltd. website
– February 7, 2011 Kobe Baseball Stadium is the first baseball park in Japan to install

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Kobe Municipal Subway The is a rapid transit system in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. Like other large Japanese cities, Kobe's subway system is heavily complemented by suburban rail. In addition, two people mover lines also serve the Kobe area: the Port Island Line ...

Seishin-Yamate Line: Sogo Undo Koen Station (S13)

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Orix Buffaloes Baseball venues in Japan Sports venues in Kobe 1988 establishments in Japan Sports venues completed in 1988 {{Japan-baseball-venue-stub

Sponsoring names of Kobe Sports Park Baseball Stadium

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