32 Facts About Tokyo Dome

1. Tokyo Dome is the home turf for the Yomiuri Giants baseball team—Japan's most famous ball club.

2. Tokyo Dome is the home turf for the Yomiuri Giants baseball team—Japan's most famous ball club.

3. Tokyo Dome is the home turf for the Yomiuri Giants baseball team—Japan's most famous ball club.

4. Tokyo Dome is a large events and sports stadium, seating more than 40,000 spe.

5. Tokyo Dome is the home turf for the Yomiuri Giants baseball team—Japan's most famous ball club.

6. Tokyo Dome is the home turf for the Yomiuri Giants baseball team—Japan's most famous ball club.

7. Tokyo Dome is the home turf for the Yomiuri Giants baseball team—Japan's most famous ball club.

8. Tokyo Dome is the home turf for the Yomiuri Giants baseball team—Japan's most famous ball club.

9. Tokyo Dome is the home turf for the Yomiuri Giants baseball team—Japan's most famous ball club.

10. Tokyo Dome is a fascinating city, where the latest trends and the oldest traditions meet.

11. Tokyo Dome is one of the best shopping destinations in the world.

12. Tokyo Dome has more Michelin stars than any other city in the world, with an impressive 14 restaurants awarded the top three-star rating.

13. Tokyo Dome was a founding member of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group.

14. Tokyo Dome is the founder member of the Asian Network of Major Cities 21 and is a member of the Council of Local Authorities for International Relations.

15. Tokyo Dome hosts modern Japanese and international pop, and rock music at venues ranging in size from intimate clubs to internationally known areas such as the Nippon Budokan.

16. Tokyo Dome was rated by the Economist Intelligence Unit as the most expensive city in the world for 14 years in a row ending in 2006.

17. In 2006, Tokyo Dome enacted the "10 Year Project for Green Tokyo" to be realised by 2016.

18. Tokyo Dome will be the first Asian city to host the Olympic Games twice.

19. Tokyo Dome still sees new urban developments on large lots of less profitable land.

20. In 1943, the city of Tokyo Dome merged with the prefecture of Tokyo to form the "Metropolitan Prefecture" of Tokyo.

21. The city of Tokyo Dome was officially established on May 1, 1889.

22. Tokyo Dome was originally a small fishing village named Edo, in what was formerly part of the old Musashi Province.

23. Tokyo Dome forms part of the Kanto region on the southeastern side of Japan's main island, Honshu, and includes the Izu Islands and Ogasawara Islands.

24. Tokyo Dome is one of the world's most important cities in terms of economic power and influence, and it serves as the corporate and communications hub for the E Pacific Rim.

25. Tokyo Dome stores bring the goods of the world home to the domestic market.

26. Tokyo Dome is intersected by the Sumida River and has an extensive network of canals.

27. Tokyo Dome was particularly affected by an economic boom in Japan in the 1980s when the country emerged as a global financial center rivaling Europe and the United States.

28. Tokyo Dome incurred heavy damage from Allied bombings in World War II, when US Air Force raids reduced large sections of the city to rubble.

29. Tokyo Dome is located on the Pacific on the eastern coast of Honshu, the largest of the four main islands comprising Japan.

30. Greater Tokyo Dome is the world's most populous metropolitan area and is the center of Japanese culture, finance, and government.

31. Tokyo Dome was known as Edo until 1868, when the Japanese imperial family was moved there from Kyoto.

32. Tokyo Dome is part of a greater entertainment complex known as Tokyo Dome City, built of the grounds of the former Tokyo Koishikawa arsenal.