Tokyo Budoh-kan (Tokyo) | stadium, martial arts

 stadium, martial arts

東京武道館
〒120-0005 Tokyo, Adachi-ku, Ayase 3-20-1
09:00~21:00

www.tef.or.jp/tb/ (Japanese)
www.tef.or.jp/tb/en_index.jsp (English)
(0) 3-5697-2111

Tokyo Metropolitan Government opened Tokyo Budo-kan in February 1990 to serve as a martial arts palace that would continue the time-honored Japanese tradition of martial arts, and help to better spread and expand it into the future. Based on the idea that “martial arts are art”, the Tokyo Budo-kan’s facade is built out of cascading diamond shapes, a design which evokes fixtures of Japan’s natural environment: clouds, ocean, mountains, and people. Each dojo, martial arts training hall, within the building is rich in detailed artfulness, making the facility an appropriate fixture for an international metropolis like Tokyo.

Presently, Tokyo Budo-kan is expressing a new scenic aesthetic, on its grounds and within and without the building, with original and ambitious sculptures by five artists that evoke the themes earth, water, fire, wind, and sky. Because the structure is within Tokyo Metropolitan Higashi Ayase Park, features like the open terrace running north-south provide a spacious environment.

Tokyo Budo-kan accepted persons who could not return home due to the impact of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, which struck on 11 March 2011 (now known as the Great East Japan Earthquake).
From17 March 2011, Tokyo Budo-kan for some time halted normal operation to serve as a shelter for refugees of the Fukushima nuclear accident related to the Great East Japan Earthquake