Yokohama Stadium

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Yokohama Stadium

横浜スタジアム
Yokohama Stadium in 2020
Former names	Lou Gehrig Stadium
Address	Yokohama Park, Naka-ku
Location	Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Coordinates	35°26′36.34″N 139°38′24.36″E / 35.4434278°N 139.6401000°E / 35.4434278; 139.6401000
Public transit	Yokohama Municipal Subway: Blue Line at Kannai Yokohama Minatomirai Railway: Minatomirai Line at Nihon-ōdōri
Owner	Yokohama City
Operator	Yokohama Stadium, Ltd.
Capacity	20,000 (Football) 34,046 (Baseball)
Field size	Left/right field – 94 m (308.4 ft) Left/right-center – 111.4 m (366 ft) Center Field – 118 m (387.1 ft) Height of Outfield Fence – 5 m (16.4 ft)
Surface	FieldTurf (since 2003)
Construction
Broke ground	April 1977
Opened	April 4, 1978
Renovated	March 2007
Construction cost	4,800,000,000 yen
Tenants
Yokohama DeNA BayStars (NPB) (1978–present) Japan Bowl (1980–91)

Yokohama Stadium (横浜スタジアム, Yokohama Sutajiamu) is a baseball stadium in Naka-ku, Yokohama, Japan. It opened in 1978 and has a capacity of 34,046 people.

It is primarily used for baseball and is the home field of the Yokohama DeNA BayStars. The stadium features dirt around the bases and pitcher's mound, but with dirt colored turf infield and base paths. The entire green portion of the field is also turfed.

It hosted an Australian rules football match and drew the second largest crowd for such an event outside of Australia.^[1]