04 Tokyo Dome
The Tokyo Dome, part of the Tokyo Dome city, a leisure complex in central Tokyo consisting of the Tokyo Dome baseball stadium, an amusement park, the LaQua spa, a variety of shops and restaurants and Tokyo Dome Hotel. The dome itself has seating for 55,000 and it is the home stadium of the Yomiuri Giants and Nippon Ham, two professional baseball teams. Concerts, festivals and other events are held in the stadium when there are no games. Nicknamed "Big Egg", it was completed in 1988 and replaced the former Korakuen Stadium. We drew frenzied attention, while sting on the steps outside the dome, from a bunch of school children who were obviously having a school outing. What, hadn't they ever seen a real foreigner before? Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan. July 13th, 2005.
