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YokaNavi – Fukuoka Official Tourist Information Web Site
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Professional Sports!
Fukuoka is a city of sports. Many professional sports teams including Fukuoka Softbank Hawks (baseball), Avispa Fukuoka (soccer) are based in this city. You can watch the games at Yahoo! Japan Dome, Level 5 Stadium and other sites.
The Grand Sumo Kyushu Tournament is held in Fukuoka for 15 days from mid-November. Fukuoka is among the four cities in Japan where you can watch the grand sumo tournament. Tickets on the day are quite likely available. Why not visit the tournament once?
Fukuoka International Open Marathon Championship is also held in this city on the first Sunday of December. You can watch this important race where runners who are aiming for Olympic medals are born.
Ⓒ AVISPA FUKUOKA
Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament
Kyushu tournament began in 1957, upgraded as a formal tournament from an exhibition tour. While it used to be held in the old Sports Center (the present Solaria Plaza), it was relocated to Kyuden Memorial Gymnastic Hall in 1974, and since 1981 has been held in Fukuoka Kokusai Center. Many of “jun...
Fukuoka Yahoo! Japan Dome
This is the first stadium in Japan that has a retractable roof to accommodate all weather conditions. It is a home stadium of well-known Fukuoka Softbank Hawks. In the season 2001, for the first time in the history of the Pacific League, the annual attendance here went over 3 million people. A gr...
Level Five Stadium
This is the home stadium of Avispa Fukuoka. The stadium was renamed in spring of 2008 from “Hakata-no-mori Kyugi Jo”. It resides on a vast site of Higashi Hirao Park and has two viewer stands covered by beautifully curved roofs. It is considered as one of the best soccer stadiums in Japan. It has...
