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World Cup Venues



VENUES


KOREA


  • Seoul
  • Incheon
  • Suwon
  • Daejeon
  • Jeonju
  • Daegu
  • Gwangju
  • Ulsan
  • Busan
  • Seogwipo

  • JAPAN


  • Sapporo
  • Miyagi
  • Niigata
  • Ibaraki
  • Saitama
  • Yokohama
  • Shizuoka
  • Osaka
  • Kobe
  • Oita
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    KOBE




    Name Kobe Wing Stadium
    Capacity 42,000
    Type Soccer only
    Roof 66% of all seats covered
    Parking capacity N/A
    Matches hosting Two first round matches and one second round match


        Kobe City has been known for a long time to be a fine harbor and the faulted landform forms a compound alluvial fan in the mountains. Rokko. It is profitable as a harbor since it is located on the seashore and has no rivers in the city, but the northern parts are restricted is has grown stretching from east and to the west. Steelmachine and tool industries are developed in the eastern part and heavy industries are in the central part. The western part has small scaled industries like rubber, foods and others. The trading from the Kobe harbor takes up about 10% of the entire trading of Japan making it second in trading. Square measure is 540km2, flows towards the southwest then conflux with Yamato River. Temperature changes greatly and its 1,200mm rainfall doesn't reach the average rainfall amount.

    After transferring to Kyoto the influence of the highway was deprived and the city area disappeared by the war during the end of the 12th century. But as many temples were rebuilt in the 13th century, it became a newborn city. It became a prefecture office location after the Meiji Restoration and developed into an international tourism city. By the population line-up per industry (1980) the 3rd generation industry population was 69%, making a consuming city comparing to the 2nd generation industry population of 27%. Production of the ink stick, writing brush, lacquer ware, ceramic ware, textiles, hand weaving and other legitimate industrial arts are active. Under the motto "Regeneration, Creation, Impression" Kobe is recovering from the great earthquake of 1995 and preparing for the World Cup showing the world a newly born Kobe.

    The stadium is constructed with special steel which can endure 7.2 earthquakes and will be used as a shelter when an earthquake strikes. There is a comfortable viewing environment provided and the whole stadium is heated and air conditioned.
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