Hotto Motto Field
Kobe Sports Park Baseball Stadium (神戸総合運動公園野球場, Kōbe Sōgō-Undō-Kōen Yakyūjō) 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
- 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)
Kobe Baseball Stadium is the first baseball park in Japan to install naming rights.
Access
See also
References
- ^ Kobe City website Archived 2012-12-03 at the Wayback Machine – February 7, 2011
- ^ Plenus Co., Ltd. website Archived 2012-03-10 at the Wayback Machine – February 7, 2011
 | This article about a baseball venue in Japan is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |