Fukuoka Dome

Fukuoka Dome
Fukuoka Dome
	Fukuoka Yahoo! Japan Dome
	Fukuoka Dome
Location	Fukuoka City, Japan
Opened	April 2, 1993
Owner	Hawks Town
Surface	FieldTurf
Capacity	35,695
Field dimensions	Left Field: 100 m (328.1 ft); Center Field: 122 m (400.3 ft); Right Field: 99.5 m (326.4 ft); Height of Outfield Fence: 5.84 m (19.2 ft)
Tenants
	Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (Pacific League) (1993–current)

The Fukuoka Dome (福岡ドーム, Fukuoka Dōmu^?) is a baseball field located in Fukuoka, Japan. The stadium serves as the headquarters of the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. In 2005, Yahoo! Japan, one of SoftBank's subsidiaries, bought the stadium's naming rights for five years term, and thus renamed it Fukuoka Yahoo! Japan Dome (福岡Yahoo!Japanドーム, Fukuoka Yafū Japan Dōmu^?) or abbreviated as Yahoo Dome (ヤフードーム, Yafū Dōmu^?) until 2009.

Built in 1993, the stadium can accommodate 35,695 spectators and was Japan's first stadium with a retractable roof.

The dome is located inside Hawks Town, near Momochi Beach. It is about 15 minutes walking distance from Tōjinmachi Station of Fukuoka City Subway.

Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Whitney Houston, Phil Collins, Madonna, The Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, Eagles, Queen + Paul Rodgers, B'z, Ayumi Hamasaki and Billy Joel have performed at the Dome.

The Dome hosted Frank Sinatra's last public concert in December of 1994.

The Fukuoka Dome has hosted one game in each Major League Baseball Japan All-Star Series since its creation, including the final game of the 2006 series, where Japan was swept for the first time in the history of the event^[2].

In the TV series Extreme Engineering, Danny Forster makes a reference to the Fukuoka Dome, saying it was said to have a "floating" field. (An indoor baseball stadium in Japan which actually has a floating field is Sapporo Dome, which also hosts football games for Consadole Sapporo, a J. League club. However, this stadium does not have such a field.) In 2009, the AstroTurf field was replaced with the now more common FieldTurf, supposedly to reduce injuries for the Hawks players, who had seen far more injuries than any team in Japan.

In the movie "Gamera: Guardian of the Universe", the stadium's retractable roof was used to trap the pterodactyl-like monsters Gyaos.