Wakayama Big Whale (和歌山ビッグホエール) is a multi-purpose arena in Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.
Recorded Here
Recorded or filmed here, from this catalogue:
- Hatsune Miku - Hatsune Miku Live Party 2013 in Kansai - Hatsune Miku, released August 30, 2013 (
MKPB-2002-1). Recorded At.
History
Translated from the ja.wikipedia article 和歌山ビッグホエール (CC BY-SA 4.0), revision 109405329.
Overview
Wakayama Big Whale was built by Wakayama Prefecture in 1997 on the former site of the Japanese National Railways railway freight terminal, Wakayama Marshalling Yard. Wakayama Big Wave and the Wakayama Big Ai Prefectural Citizens' Exchange Plaza are located on the same site.
At the 70th National Sports Festival in 2015, known in Wakayama Prefecture as the 2015 Kinokuni Wakayama National Sports Festival, it was used as a venue for gymnastics, including artistic gymnastics and rhythmic gymnastics, basketball, and handball. It was also used as the opening ceremony venue for the 36th National Cultural Festival in 2021.
As Minosuke Office Kobukuro, the talent agency to which Kobukuro belongs, is located in Kozaka, Wakayama City, the venue hosts its live event, “Fan Festa”. It is also used for live events by other artists approximately once a year. A Momoiro Clover Z concert was held there in 2013, followed by a Kazumasa Oda concert in 2014, and major artists have continued to hold concerts there since then.
The facility has a water-spraying device designed to resemble a whale's blowhole, which sprays water into the air. However, following complaints that laundry was being soaked because of the many nearby residential areas, use of this feature has been restrained in recent years.
Facilities
Structure: reinforced concrete, with one basement floor and three above-ground floors.
Building area: 10,948 m² (total floor area: 17,273 m²).
Total area: 55.562 m².
Completed: 1997.
Facilities: a wooden arena with an area of 3,280 m² (44 m × 80 m); and a light exercise hall with an area of 420 m² and a height of 4.3 m, serving as a supplementary facility to the main arena that can be used for sports warm-ups, waiting rooms, dressing rooms, and similar purposes.
Sources
- Wikidata entity Q11417292.
- ja.wikipedia, 和歌山ビッグホエール (revision 109405329), CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photograph: 130112 Wakayama Big Whale Wakayama pref Japan01s9.jpg on Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5, by 663highland.
