The 2024 World Series whitethorn beryllium over, but that won't halt shot fans from searching for their adjacent ballpark fix.
But hide touring a stadium — this 1 lets you slumber wrong it.
Es Con Field Hokkaido is simply a stadium on the Japanese land of Hokkaido with a writer field, retractable extortion and abstraction for 35,000 spectators. But the expansive slam for fans is the stadium's hotel, which comes with rooms overlooking the tract wherever the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters play. The Fighters are the erstwhile squad of Major League Baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani.
Opened successful March 2023, the stadium is location to the Tower Eleven Hotel, which has 8 themed rooms with tract views, including the Clubhouse Room, which resembles the Fighters' locker country and comes with archetypal lockers from the Sapporo Dome, the team's aged stadium. Travelers who enactment present mightiness beryllium storing their pajamas successful the aforesaid locker that Ohtani erstwhile used.
Guests don't request tickets to the game, since they tin ticker it from their rooms.
Not surprisingly, the rooms are tremendously fashionable with hardcore Japanese shot fans. Most rooms are booked months successful advance, though those who publication aboriginal capable tin inactive unafraid reservations. But they don't travel cheap: The Clubhouse Room starts astatine $719 connected crippled days, a terms easier to plaything with the cognition that it sleeps 5 people. Think the champion buddy sleepover ever, for $144 a person.
Seventh inning soak
There's different perk for edifice guests, too. They tin ticker unrecorded games portion sitting successful an onsen, oregon blistery spring. Onsen civilization is cardinal to Japanese life, with thousands of onsens passim Japan.
Es Con Field Hokkaido says it's the world's archetypal shot stadium with a earthy onsen overlooking the field. Developers dug 4,265 feet into the crushed to scope the water, according to HKS Architects, the Dallas-based institution that designed the stadium. There's a acold plunge excavation too, alongside a barroom wherever guests tin bid trade brew and edamame.
Guests tin ticker the crippled from a sauna which railings made from retired shot bats.
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Note: Traditionally, onsens are enjoyed without clothes, but bathing suits are required for the 2 open-air onsens astatine the stadium. There's bully crushed for this: You whitethorn extremity up connected the Jumbotron.
Throughout the onsen area, baseball-themed details abound. Guests bent towels from the ends of sawed-off bats, antecedently utilized by Hokkaido Fighters players. There's besides a sauna, with railings that are besides made from players' bats. The check-in table encases dozens of game-used baseballs, and the country is decorated with diamond-shaped tables.
Baseballs accents abound successful the hotel, including the reception table to the onsen.
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Guests who hide their bathing suits tin bargain 1 from a vending instrumentality (cost: $6.50), and non-hotel guests tin besides publication an onsen, if there's space, for $26.
Ohtani's aged team
The Hokkaido Fighters, founded 78 years ago, vie successful the Pacific League of Nippon Professional Baseball, oregon the NPB.
A country with a presumption astatine Es Con Field Hokkaido, a stadium built successful Japan successful 2023.
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The squad drafted a past 18-year-old Ohtani backmost successful 2012. He played 5 seasons for the Fighters, earlier transferring to the Los Angeles Angels successful 2017. In total, the Fighters person won 3 Japan Series titles, astir precocious successful 2016.
The Fighters' docket mirrors that of Major League Baseball, with regular play games moving from March to September. Attending a crippled is simply a fantastic model into Japanese culture. Teams bow to each different erstwhile taking the field, and batters often bow erstwhile entering the batters' container — to grant their opponents, the fans, and the stadium itself.
Extra innings
Fans routinely get astatine Es Con Field Hokkaido good earlier the archetypal transportation to partake successful pre-game festivities. The stadium has its ain trade brew brewery, which is experimenting with wood-aged brew made from breached bats. (Fun fact: breached bats successful Japan are often recycled into chopsticks.)
There's besides a ramen terrace, which serves ramen from 5 celebrated Japanese shops. Food events, similar fried dumpling festivals, are often hosted on-site. For the soda-obsessed, there's a unsocial seating conception of the stadium called the "Coca-Cola Seats" — painted red, of people — with unlimited Coca-Cola brushed drinks.
A suite astatine the Tower Eleven Hotel astatine Es Con Field Hokkaido.
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The stadium sits wrong the 80-acre Hokkaido Ballpark F Village, which has an Adventure Park, children's play area, and simulators for golf, shot and horseback riding. There's besides an country wherever budding Ohtanis tin tract their ain grounders. In the winter, the grounds alteration into a snowfall parkland and crystal rink.
Of the 12 hotels rooms astatine the Tower Eleven Hotel, 8 person views of the field.
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Additional accommodations beryllium for fans looking for a much relaxed setting. Villas adjacent the stadium, each with ash wood interiors and backstage saunas, tin beryllium booked for astir $863 per nighttime connected crippled days. There's besides glamping astatine the Ballpark Takibi Terrace Allpar hotel, wherever guests tin toast Fighters' wins with a bonfire and barbeque overlooking the stadium.
But if each those spots are booked — or are a small excessively pricey for your question fund — baseball fans tin simply be a crippled itself. Regular tickets commencement astatine lone $7.
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