鳥取市若葉台スポーツセンター, Sports and recreation complex in Tottori, Japan
Wakabadai Sports Center is a sports facility completed in April 2013 in the Wakabadai district of the Tsunoi New Town in southern Tottori. It has a natural-grass pitch, a training room, shower and bathing rooms, meeting rooms and locker rooms. The city built it on land bought for a public housing project that never went ahead, at a total cost of about 1.8 billion yen.
The facility was completed in April 2013, after Gainare Tottori's 2010 promotion to J2 led the J.League to demand better training conditions. Tottori City bought a plot in the Tsunoi New Town (Wakabadai) that the city land development corporation had prepared for public housing before the plan stalled. The total project cost about 1.8 billion yen, of which roughly 1.5 billion went to land acquisition, with subsidies from the Japan Football Association and the Japan Sport Council.
The center functions as a meeting point where local residents and sports clubs gather for training and group activities. Schools and community organizations regularly use the facilities for their athletic programs and team practices.
From Tottori Station on the JR San'in Line, buses 70H, 73, 74, 75, 75B and 77 reach the Wakabadai-kita 5-chome stop in about 20 minutes, one minute on foot from there. From Tsunoi Station on the JR Inbi Line or Koge Station on the JR and Wakasa Railway lines, a taxi takes about 10 minutes.
The site was assembled from land the Tottori City Land Development Corporation had bought and graded for a public housing project in Tsunoi New Town; when that plan stalled, the city took over the unused plot. The total project cost was about 1.8 billion yen, of which roughly 1.5 billion went to land acquisition.
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