, also called , is a baseball
stadium in
Minami-ku,
Hiroshima, Japan
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Hiroshima Prefecture has a population of 2,811,410 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 8,479 km² (3,274 sq mi). Hiroshima Prefecture borders Okayama Prefecture to the ...
. It is used primarily for
baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...
and is the home of the
Hiroshima Toyo Carp
The is a professional baseball team based in Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan. They compete in the Central League of Nippon Professional Baseball. The team is primarily owned by the Matsuda family, led by , who is a descendant of Mazda ...
of the
Japanese Central League. The ballpark has a capacity of 32,000 people and opened on April 10, 2009. It replaced
First Hiroshima Municipal Stadium and initially retained the old ballpark's official name. The stadium architecture is considered to be labeled as a
retro-classic ballpark.
Naming rights
On November 6, 2008, Hiroshima City gave
Mazda
, commonly referred to as simply Mazda, is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Fuchū, Hiroshima, Japan.
In 2015, Mazda produced 1.5 million vehicles for global sales, the majority of which (nearly one m ...
Motor Corporation naming rights to the stadium. In October of that year, Mazda proposed to call the stadium MAZDA Zoom-Zoom Stadium Hiroshima for the period between April 1, 2009 and March 31, 2014. On December 24, 2008, Mazda entered into a contract with the City of Hiroshima regarding the stadium's name and made official the abbreviated name "". The "Zoom-Zoom" name was a reference to a marketing campaign by Mazda.
References
External links
General Information (carp.co.jp-Japanese)New Stadium Blog(Japanese)
Baseball venues in Japan
Sports venues in Hiroshima
Hiroshima Toyo Carp
Mazda
Sports venues completed in 2009
2009 establishments in Japan
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