Korakuen Hall
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Kōrakuen Hall (後楽園ホール Kōrakuen Hōru?) is an arena in Tokyo, Japan, which has hosted many boxing, professional wrestling and mixed martial arts matches. Part of Tokyo Dome City, it is one of Tokyo's biggest attractions. It opened on April 16, 1962 and has a capacity of approximately 1,800 people. In the rounds of pro wrestling, it is considered as being the Madison Square Garden of puroresu, as all of Japan's largest promotions have run some of their larger shows there, much akin to the WWF/E's monthly show at MSG in the 80's. Korakuen Hall is also known for the fact that every wrestling promotion in Japan, large or small, defunct or not, has run a show there.
In addition, the pipe chair currently used in Korakuen Hall will be repaired for 5,250 yen (including tax) per piece, if it destroys in confused fighting outside the hall etc.
[edit] Korakuen Hall 2
It was announced that a new version of Korakuen Hall would be built in Tokyo Dome City, with a construction finish time of around 2008, and it would hold 2,500-3,000 people. After construction completes, Tokyo Dome Corporation, which owns the original Korakuen Hall as well as the Tokyo Dome, would continue to rent out the original Korakuen Hall, lowering rental prices (Currently it costs 1,500,000 Yen to rent) to allow smaller promotions to use the building on a regular basis.
[edit] Cultural references
- In the manga/anime Ashita no Joe, many matches are held there too.
- Korakuen Hall is featured numerous times in the manga/anime series Fighting Spirit (Hajime no Ippo) as one of the venues the boxers fight at.
