Okay-Arena Yokohama opened its doorways in September 2023 in Yokohama’s Minato Mirai leisure district, a part of an formidable new Music Terrace advanced located proper subsequent to Yokohama Bay. The enviornment has seating for 20,000 and was particularly engineered to supply superior sound high quality for reside musical performances – over 140 of which have already been held since its opening.
This huge venue has been attracting loads of worldwide consideration, together with dozens of not solely Japanese, but in addition main worldwide musical artists, which have booked the sector for his or her tour dates in Japan. In reality, the U.S.’s Pollstar publication for the live performance and reside music business shared that between November 16, 2023 and November 13, 2024, 1.84 million concertgoers visited Okay-Arena Yokohama in its first yr of operations – incomes it the excellence of being the musical venue with the second highest variety of attendees throughout that timeframe in the complete world.
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The solely venue to beat that file was New York City’s Madison Square Garden, which noticed 2 million concertgoers throughout the identical interval. Third place went to Madrid’s WiZink Center with 1.47 million concertgoers.
Japanese internet customers had been fast to chime in with awe and their very own experiences on the venue after the news broke:
“I’m so glad this was the first place where I ever went to a live concert!”
“I’ve been twice and it’s super easy to see the stage and the sound is good. I totally get it.”
“I love being able get to get a drink at the venue’s Arena Bar 7 after a show.”
“The sound quality really was wonderful. I also liked the fact that there are elevators and not just stairs. I just hope that they can improve access to Yokohama Station after performances finish.”
“It’s been criticized, but even with the massive crowds it only took me a 15-minute walk to get back.”
Even if the post-concert rush to close by Yokohama Station may nonetheless use a little bit of superb tuning, it’s a serious step to have one other venue devoted to musical performances moreover the established Yokohama Arena that’s additionally simply accessible from downtown Tokyo.
Source: Nikkei through Hachima Kiko
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