Chiba Marine Stadium

Chiba Marine Stadium is in Chiba City, Japan. It is primarily used for baseball, and is the home field of the Chiba Lotte Marines. It opened in 1990 and holds 30,000 people.

Summer Sonic Festival is held in the stadium every summer. Famous musicians such as Guns N’ Roses, Metallica, Oasis, Green Day, Avril Lavigne, and Beastie Boys have done concerts.

Madonna opened her controversial but critically-acclaimed ‘Blond Ambition World Tour’ at the stadium on April 13, 1990. The show marked the first of nine in Japan during the tour and highlighted the official opening of the Marine stadium. Unfortunately for Madonna, the dates coincided with Japan’s rainy season, and the show was dramatically scaled-back to accomodate driving rain and high winds. Some clips and dialogue of the opening night performances – including of the stage being swept of rainwater by Madonna’s road crew, and her performing in a jacket and ski-pants instead of the intended costumes – can be seen in the 1991 tour documentary, “Truth or Dare”.

According to some sources, the Chiba Marine Stadium was the “Stadium” fighting level in Tekken from 1994/1995.

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