is a sporting complex in

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. Built in 1954 for the World

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Championship, it was also used as the venue for

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, and hosted the

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competition at the

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from 1986 to 1990. The gymnasium is a one-minute walk from

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Description and events

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; *Japan Table Tennis Championships; *The first two international hosted regular season

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on November 2 & 3, 1990.; * V.League; * Suntory Cup All Japan School Volleyball Rally; *

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Cup World Rhythmic Gymnastics Club Championships; *World Full Contact Karate Open Championships; as the Shinkyokushinkai Karate World Open Tournament -held every four years-; * Miki Prune Super College Volleyball. * 2007 World Figure Skating Championships *Final Four of the official 2010 Women's Volleyball World Championship *

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* 2017 TWICE Japan Debut Showcase "Touchdown in Japan" * 2019 ITTF Team World Cup *2021 Olympic Summer Games, Table Tennis Since 2000, the arena has also been used as a concert venue. The first artist to perform there was the Japanese group

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. The sub-arena houses an olympic size (50mX20m, eight lanes) swimming pool with seating for 900 people. The Japan Waterpolo Championships is held here. There is also a 25m pool (25mX13m, 6 lanes), an outdoor oval running track; a weight training room, and conference rooms. Since April 1, 2006, the Tokyo Lifelong Learning and Culture Foundation (東京都生涯学習文化財団), along with Suntory (サントリー株式会社), Tipness (株式会社ティップネス) and O-ence (株式会社オーエンス), manage the gymnasium. On April 25 and 26, 2015, American singer-songwriter

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brought

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to the venue with two shows.

Fees

From June 1, 2006, the fees for use of the facilities will be: *training gym/2 hours: 450 yen *pool/2 hours 600 yen: *pool (junior high school students and younger)/2 hours: 260 yen *training gym and pool/2 hours: 1000 yen *training gym, pool and dance studio/1 day: 2500 yen *one month pass: 7800 yen

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External links

1964 Summer Olympics official report.
Volume 1. Part 1. pp. 120–1.
Official SiteSatellite photo of the gymnasium from Google Maps

Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
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