Aqua Wing Arena

Aqua Wing Arena
長野運動公園総合運動場総合市民プール"アクアウィング"
Aqua Wing
Aqua Wing Arena in April 2019
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Former namesAqua Wing Arena
LocationNagano, Japan
Coordinates36°39′38″N 138°13′59″E / 36.66056°N 138.23306°E / 36.66056; 138.23306 (Aqua Wing)
Capacity6,000 for ice hockey, 2,000 for swimming
Acreage5.2ha
Construction
Broke ground12 October 1995 (1995-10-12)
OpenedSeptember 1997 (1997-09)
Construction cost9.1 billion yen[a 1]

Aqua Wing Arena is an indoor aquatics arena in Nagano, Japan. The arena is located in the Yoshida area of the city of Nagano, in Nagano Sports Park (長野運動公園, Nagano undou kouen), 5 km northeast of Nagano Station. The closest station is Asahi Station on the Nagano Electric Railway, a distance of 1 km.

The Aqua Wing Arena was constructed as Venue B for the ice hockey events at the 1998 Winter Olympics, and was the last venue to be completed for the Games, in September 1997.[1][2] Big Hat, the principal Venue A for the ice hockey competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics, is located approximately 5.3 km southwest of Aqua Wing Arena. M-Wave, the site of the speed skating events at the Games is located approximately 2.5 km south of Aqua Wing Arena.

The Aqua Wing Arena was designed to be converted into an aquatics centre, and the retrofit was completed in 1999.[3] The arena consists of a 50-meter pool, a 25-meter swimming pools, and a diving pool.[a 2] The roof is retractable. Although the arena sat 6,000 during the 1998 Winter Olympics, the civic pool currently seats 2,000 spectators.[4] The Aqua Wing Arena will be an international pre-training camp for the 2020 Summer Olympics.[5]


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  1. ^ "Ice Hockey Stadium". Shinmai Mainchi Newspaper. Archived from the original on 26 December 2016. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  2. ^ 1998 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 223-5.
  3. ^ City of Nagano profile. Archived December 1, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Nagano Athletic Park (Sports Park), Aqua Wing Ice Hockey Arena". Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved September 9, 2015.
  5. ^ "Nagano Sports Park Public Pool". Tokyo 2020 Pre-Games Training Camps Online Guide. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Retrieved 9 June 2019.