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Koshien Stadium
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Alternate: Hanshin Koshien Stadium, 阪神甲子園球場

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Established
1924 (102 years old)

Capacity
47,400

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Architect
Ōbayashi gumi

Country
Japan

Location
Nishinomiya, Hyōgo

Timezone
UTC +09:00 Japan Standard Time (JST)

Coordinates
34.721389, 135.361667

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		Upcoming
10 Jul	Hanshin THanshin Tigers	9:00am	Tokyo YakTokyo Yakult Swallows
11 Jul	Hanshin THanshin Tigers	9:00am	Tokyo YakTokyo Yakult Swallows
12 Jul	Hanshin THanshin Tigers	9:00am	Tokyo YakTokyo Yakult Swallows
20 Jul	Hanshin THanshin Tigers	9:00am	Yokohama Yokohama DeNA BayStars
21 Jul	Hanshin THanshin Tigers	9:00am	Yokohama Yokohama DeNA BayStars
22 Jul	Hanshin THanshin Tigers	9:00am	Yokohama Yokohama DeNA BayStars
24 Jul	Hanshin THanshin Tigers	9:00am	Yomiuri GYomiuri Giants
		Results
05 Jul	Hanshin THanshin Tigers	6 - 4	HiroshimaHiroshima Toyo Carp
04 Jul	Hanshin THanshin Tigers	P - P	HiroshimaHiroshima Toyo Carp
03 Jul	Hanshin THanshin Tigers	1 - 5	HiroshimaHiroshima Toyo Carp
02 Jul	Hanshin THanshin Tigers	2 - 3	Chunichi Chunichi Dragons
01 Jul	Hanshin THanshin Tigers	P - P	Chunichi Chunichi Dragons
30 Jun	Hanshin THanshin Tigers	3 - 2	Chunichi Chunichi Dragons
25 Jun	Hanshin THanshin Tigers	P - P	Tokyo YakTokyo Yakult Swallows

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Hanshin Koshien Stadium (阪神甲子園球場, Hanshin Kōshien Kyūjō), 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 the largest stadium in Asia at the time it was completed, with a capacity of 55,000.

The name Kōshien (甲子園) comes from Wood Rat of the sexagenary cycle system. The year of the stadium's founding, 1924, was the first year kōshi (甲子) in the cycle. The design of the stadium was heavily influenced by the Polo Grounds in New York City. In 1936 it became the home stadium for the Osaka Tigers (current Hanshin Tigers), now with the Central League. On 14 February 1964, Hanshin, the Tigers' owners, was appended to the name of Koshien Stadium.

In addition to the annual National High School Baseball Championship, played in August, the stadium hosts the annual National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament in March, a smaller, invitational tournament. Both tournaments are generally known simply as Kōshien. The high school tournaments are given a higher priority, with any tournament games that need to be rescheduled forcing the Tigers to postpone conflicting home games. It also hosts Japan's American college football national championship game, the Koshien Bowl.

Legendary baseball player Babe Ruth played an exhibition game at Koshien on his Japan tour in 1934. There is a plaque at the stadium commemorating the event.


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