This is a list of baseball parks in top-level professional baseball in Japan. It was compiled primarily from the individual articles shown. It may be incomplete, and there also may be some inconsistencies due to occasional contradictory information between articles. Japanese baseball was organized originally as the Japanese Baseball League (JBL), starting with the 1936 season. For the 1950 season, the organization was renamed Nippon Professional Baseball and with additional clubs joining, it was broken into the Central League (CL) and the Pacific League (PL).
Various clubs have transferred from one city to another over time. Most of the clubs had also had several name changes, often independent of location, as a club's corporate owner is typically part of the club's name. For that reason, the first list is driven by team name. The second list is grouped by stadium name. The team list is confined to top-level professional clubs. The stadium list also includes some university-level clubs, where known.
‡Denotes stadium with a retractable roof. |
†Denotes stadium with a fixed roof. |
Name | Year opened | Year closed | Location |
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Nippon Life Stadium | 1950 | 1997 | Osaka, Osaka Prefecture |
Shimonoseki Municipal Stadium | 1949 | 1985 | Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture |
Kinugasa Stadium | 1948 | Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture | |
Korakuen Stadium | 1937 | 1987 | Bunkyō, Tokyo |
Osaka Stadium | 1950 | 1998 | Osaka, Osaka Prefecture |
Kawasaki Stadium | 1951 | Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture | |
Nagoya Stadium | 1948 | Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture | |
Hiroshima Sogo Ground Baseball Park | 1941 | Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture | |
Hiroshima Municipal Stadium | 1957 | 2010 | Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture |
Tokyo Stadium | 1962 | 1972 | Arakawa, Tokyo |
Heiwadai Stadium | 1949 | 1997 | Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture |
Hankyu Nishinomiya Stadium | 1937 | 2002 | Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture |
Fujiidera Stadium | 1928 | 2005 | Fujiidera, Osaka Prefecture |
This is a partial list of clubs that were in the JBL and which disbanded or merged. Taken verbatim from the JBL article: