Tsukisamu Gymnasium


The Sapporo Tsukisamu Gymnasium is an indoor sporting arena located in Toyohira-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaidō.
The first floor is a skating rink used for ice hockey games, figure skating and leisure skating throughout the year. On the second floor are table tennis facilities, and a corridor for jogging.
The arena opened in 1972. It hosted some of the ice hockey event at the 1972 Winter Olympics.
It has a total capacity of 3,371. It is located next to the Tsukisamu Outdoor Stadium, and four tennis courts.
In 1986 and 1990, hosted the Asian Winter Games ice hockey tournaments. Eighteen years later, -in 2008- it was the main venue of the ice hockey World Championship Division I Group B and, every year, hosts some regular season games of the Asia League Ice Hockey, usually played around Christmas. The arena hosted the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2017 Asian Winter Games.
The gymnasium is also the home arena of the team Skate House, who plays on the hockey league, the :ja:Jアイス・ノース・ディビジョン|J-ICE North League.
The venue was used for the women's world curling championship in 2015.

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