Kagoshima Fureai Sports Land, Park in Japan
Kagoshima Fureai Sports Land is a 507,000 m² municipal sports park in Nakayama-chō, Kagoshima, opened in October 2004. The city manages about 402,000 m², including grass and clay grounds, a 25 m indoor pool with water slides and a natural hot-spring corner, and a 70×40 m indoor field. Kagoshima Prefecture manages the 105,000 m² holding the prefectural football and rugby ground, finished on 1 February 2014 with two natural-turf pitches and one artificial-turf pitch.
Kagoshima City designated the site as an urban park in 1998 and opened it in October 2004 as a municipal sports park. In 2014 the prefecture bought undeveloped land and completed the Kagoshima Prefectural Soccer and Rugby Ground on 1 February, so the city now manages about 402,000 of the 507,000 m² and the prefecture 105,000 m². Nangoku Shokusan took over the city facilities' management in April 2019.
The park hosts the J.League's Shimizu S-Pulse for their annual February training camp, using the prefectural soccer and rugby ground. Since the 2015 season, the JFA All-Japan U-12 Soccer Championship final tournament has also been held here, drawing youth teams from across the country.
The park is served by the Kagoshima City community bus from Hiroki Station, Taniyama Station and the Taniyama tram stop, and by Kagoshima Kotsu bus line 8 from Tenmonkan, which terminates at the park. By car it is about 30 minutes from Kagoshima-Chūō Station and immediately off the Nakayama interchange of the Ibusuki Skyline.
The prefectural football and rugby ground inside the park, finished on 1 February 2014, has two natural-turf pitches and one artificial-turf pitch. Shimizu S-Pulse holds its February J-League training camp here, and since the 2015 season the park has hosted the final round of the JFA All-Japan U-12 Football Championship.
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