Kobe Green Arena is an indoor sporting arena located in

Kobe Kobe ( , ; officially , ) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture Japan. With a population around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in Kansai region, whic ...

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. The capacity of the arena is 6,000 people. The arena was opened in July 1993. It hosted games of several global women's volleyball tournaments, including the official

2006 Women's Volleyball World Championship The 2006 FIVB Women's World Championship was the fifteenth edition of the competition, contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of the ' (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The final tournament was held from 31 October ...

and also for the

FIVB World Grand Prix 2008 The FIVB World Grand Prix 2008 was a women's volleyball tournament in which 12 countries competed from 20 June to 12 July 2008. The finals were held in Yokohama Arena, Yokohama, Japan. Cuba, Brazil, Dominican Republic and the United States qualifi ...

. Amongst others, the USA, Kazakhstan, Turkey and Japan played there.

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