Asahikawa City General Gymnasium, Sports venue in Asahikawa, Japan.
Asahikawa City General Gymnasium is an indoor sports facility in Hanasaki Sports Park, opened in 1979. Its main arena covers 1,812 m² (47.6 by 38.2 m) and has fixed seating for about 1,500 spectators; four smaller exercise rooms, a toddler room and a training room fill a total floor area of 6,952 m². It is the home court of the V.League volleyball club Voreas Hokkaido.
The gymnasium opened on 1 October 1979 in Hanasaki Sports Park, and a management council for it was set up the same day. It is run by the Asahikawa City Sports Association as designated manager. Since 2022 it has been the home arena of Voreas Hokkaido, a V.LEAGUE volleyball club that plays most of its home games here.
Since 2019 the arena has carried a sponsor's name: it was the Asahikawa Realter Yume Ringo Gymnasium until 2024, then the Recruit Staffing Rick & Sue Asahikawa Gymnasium. It is the home court of Voreas Hokkaido, a V.LEAGUE volleyball club whose home games are mostly played here before roughly 1,500 fixed seats.
The gym is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and closes on the last Friday of each month. It is about 15 minutes by bus from Asahikawa Station, and there are 339 free parking spaces. The fixed seating in the main arena holds about 1,500 spectators.
The fixed seating holds only about 1,500 spectators, below the 5,000-seat minimum of the new S-V.LEAGUE that Voreas Hokkaido plans to join; the city has said it aims to build a replacement arena meeting that standard around 2030.
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