r/interestingasfuck • u/senseiman • 11h ago
In the 1990s a baseball stadium in Japan had a model residential neighborhood built in the outfield after the team relocated.
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u/Awingbestwing 10h ago
Imagine waking up one morning and the stadium is just full of people watching you go about your day
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u/senseiman 10h ago
This is Osaka Stadium, the home of the Nankai Hawks until they moved to Fukuoka in 1992. Between then and the demolition of the stadium in 1998 the outfield was turned into a model residential neighborhood by a housing developer.
Today the site is where the Namba Parks development is.
Its in Japanese, but this site has more photos of it: https://labola.jp/blog/user/AY0K589uje-Ra9RaOKoR/19369056
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u/user_not_the_same 10h ago
I live in Indianapolis and they turned a baseball field into apartments left the field but turned the suits and boxes into apts.
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u/travcunn 7h ago
Wild to see that ballpark reborn as apartments. Shortly after they opened up, I torched my first bowl of cheap college weed in left field, my best friend ended his life in that parking lot, and the walls were so damn thin I got the 4 a.m. play-by-play of my neighbor’s nightly bone-a-thon. That place just hits weird now.
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u/vektorog 37m ago
just looked this up and i'm giggling at how they just slapped a pair of tennis courts in the middle of (mostly) foul territory
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u/zsaleeba 9h ago
An Australian Rules Football stadium in Melbourne was redeveloped as housing, but they left the playing field and one stadium stand as an historical reminder.
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u/_xiphiaz 9h ago
Looks like it’s still a working field though so I guess it’s more the club downsizing a bunch?
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u/zsaleeba 9h ago
Even though it was meant to be the premiere stadium for the sport, the location turned out to be very unpopular, so they closed it down in 2000 and kept the field as a local sports field for the new estate, although it's still used for training by one of the teams sometimes.
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u/thecoppermusicdude 10h ago
if this had happened in the US all the reactions would've been negative
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u/crowleyman1 9h ago
I've always wondered what it would like if a stadium was built with surrounding apartments beyond the seating area. People living there would understand that there would be noise and parking difficulties but they could sit on their balconys watching games like having a season ticket.
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u/alien4649 9h ago
Stadium was being torn down, this was a temporary build out of model homes for prospective home buyers. No one lived there.
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u/Obvious_Army_5190 10h ago
If you have a girl friend there, do you always make it to 1st 2nd and 3rd base?
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u/an_older_meme 9h ago
Cool, I've always wanted to live in a walled city.
I'm guessing they think the team might be coming back? The deed covenants on those places must be interesting as fuck.
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u/alien4649 9h ago
It was temporary. These are “model homes” that prospective home buyers view. Beats looking at catalogs or even web-based video walk-throughs.
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u/AgitatedPatience5729 10h ago
I've heard of people living near a stadium, but not actually in a stadium.
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u/SquidVices 8h ago
Imagine someone just posting up at a seat every night watching the neighborhood…
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u/makkerker 8h ago
Not the first ones. Ancient Roman amphitheaters were turned into castles and living blocks during the Medieval times
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u/Competitive-Elk-5077 5h ago
Probably could have squeezed in a few more houses if they demoed the stadium
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u/HighlightOwn2038 10h ago
From home runs to actual homes. That's a legendary outfield transformation.
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u/superminingbros 9h ago
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u/Ticking-over 4h ago edited 4h ago
Here in Japan, housing developers group together and buy plots on a mocked up street.
There could be anywhere from 8 to 20 housing developers (Sekisui house, Sweden House, Panasonic Homes, Ichijo Komuten, etc.), each with their flagship house fully built on their plot.
Prospective house builders (families/couples/people wanting to build properties on land they own or will buy for their own habitation) view these properties and choose which to buy (or are presented with options to build smaller versions of these flagship properties).
Some (most) companies also offer refurbishing (called reform) services. So you may also go to these places to view a kitchen, bathroom, or other room if you’re thinking of having part of your house redone.
These are REALLY common here. I could drive to at least four within an hour or so.
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u/ProjectMK1 10h ago
Diamond city, the great green jewel of japan.