Home of the Carp, the baseball team, since 2009: tours of 60–80 minutes, 1,800–2,000 yen.
The stadium opened in 2009 with its north side wide open towards the station tracks: if you pass by on the shinkansen you can see into the ground. On the three non-game-day tours (60 minutes with the press room, 80 as far as the bullpen) you do not go into the first team's changing rooms, and in summer the sun beats down on the uncovered stands. The seventh inning, reviews say, is when the crowd releases red balloons together.
Construction of the new stadium of the Hiroshima Tōyō Carp began on 26 November 2007 and ended with the completion ceremony on 28 March 2009. It covers 50,472.42 square metres and has 33,000 seats, 50 centimetres wide and 85 deep, ‘as in Major League ballparks’, the team states on its official page. The north side opens towards the railway to let in air and light, and so that people passing by train can see the stadium.
ℹ️ The three behind-the-scenes tours run from April to September, on days with no game: the Basic Course (with the press room) lasts about 60 minutes, 1,800 yen for adults aged 18 and over and 1,000 for elementary and junior high school children; the Backyard Course and the Experience Course last about 80 minutes, 2,000 and 1,000 yen. You book online (a Carp ID is required), by fax, or on the day if places remain, at the ticket offices in front of the first-base-side entrance. On game days you get there on foot in 10 minutes from JR Hiroshima Station; in summer the sun beats down on the uncovered stands.
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