#Rakuten Seimei Park Miyagi

[twosecondstreet]

Every Nippon Pro Baseball Stadium: Pacific League

A bit late, but keeping the sports theme, shifting to baseball! #twosecondstreet #npb

My wife made a vow at the start of this year: To visit every Nippon Pro Baseball (NPB) stadium across Japan. We saved our money, made our travel plans, and set out on this journey together. First up, let’s take a look at the stadiums in the Pacific League. (more…)

[blackfireswallow]

Mario is going to have a new event with the Rakuten Eagles baseball team! ^^

The details of the event are the follwoing.

Eagles Girl Day - date of the event: September 6th at 1:00pm Japanese time - place of the event: further details will be given, but possibly at Rakuten Seimei Park Miyagi, Sendai - general ticket sale starts on May 24th at 10:00 Japanese time (the link to the ticketing site will be given later) On the day of the event an Eagles Girl uniform and bang bang sticks will be gifted to every female visitors.

Source: https://www.rakuteneagles.jp/news/detail/00002739.html

Source of the original photo: https://twitter.com/m_kuroba/status/1152500052192980992

[ballparksaroundtheworld]

Rakuten Seimei Park Miyagi, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

[ajgbtt]

Day 7/Game 5: Sunday, Sendai, Sunday!

I take full blame for the title. If I had the presence of mind to get a sundae when we were there (and it was hot enough to justify one!), it would've been perfect.

We've been doing fantastic with an 8am wake up time, and a quick breakfast helped us get to Tokyo Station with time to spare before our Komachi train to Sendai. I'm going to miss these Shinkansen when this trip is done...

Once in Sendai, we had an hour before game time to look around for lunch. We found a bunch of line-ups, and decided to just make for the stadium and eat there. Good half-hour walk.

Rakuten Seimei Park Miyagi is pushing 70 years old, but it's been taken very good care of lately and feels relatively new. There's a mini-amusement park and Ferris wheel in left field, there's craft beer (a wider selection than Yokohama too!), and the place is completely cashless, a rarity in Japan. Nick and I snacked on the famous "long potato" fries and some meat+rice skewers. Quite filling.

We were seated in front of the Eagles cheering section (or ouendan), and wound up lending our hands and voices to the home side before long. The Eagles are my second favourite team here anyway, so fine by me.

The game was a speedy one, as neither team had an extended really. The Buffaloes took an early lead in the 2nd, but the Eagles took it back with a 2-run single the following inning. Insurance runs by single and solo shot followed against the Orix bullpen, and Rakuten held down the fort the rest of the way for a 4-1 win.

The Eagles are now 2-0 with me in attendance, and the home team is 3-2.

After the game, Nick and I doubled back to Sendai station for dinner, and after a short wait...

Gyutan.

This isn't your zaidi's pickled rubber, this is grilled to perfection. All the stuff in the picture above ran us ¥2000 each, and it was totally worth it.

Afterwards, we spent some time to check out the Sendai castle ruins. Got some fantastic shots of the skyline and remnants with the sun setting. We returned to Sendai station again, changed trains to an earlier Hayabusa Shinkansen, and...well, that's where I am now.

Once we get back to our hotel, it's time to repack and prep for getting back on the road. Next stop: Osaka, the Kansai region, and two more teams!

Also, tut tut it looks like rain on Tuesday, which may require us to change plans in a hurry.

[blackfireswallow]

Mario updated his Twitter 4 times today ^^ He even uploaded a video!

He posted twice during his Sendai birthday events, each time he updated a photo and wrote:

"[It's my] birthday event in Sendai now"

After the events ended he posted again and wrote:

"The full schedule of the birthday events is finished. I'm really happy I got so many greetings from a lot of people! I'll do my best during this year ☺️ Thank you very much for all the fellow actors who sent greeting messages! Also I was really surprised I got a message from Rakuten's Shima Motohiro 😭 Thank you very much!

I'll do my best!"

Lastly, he updated a VIDEO and wrote:

"There are a lot of things at Rakuten Seimei Park Miyagi 😎"

You can check out the video on this link: https://twitter.com/vithmic_mario/status/1152930439855665152

Sources: https://twitter.com/vithmic_mario/status/1152805719306981377

https://twitter.com/vithmic_mario/status/1152865712660086785

https://twitter.com/vithmic_mario/status/1152913263119650816

[blackfireswallow]

There are some more photos of Mario doing the ceremonial pitch from Rakuten Eagles' site ^^

He also left a comment about the event. He said:

"I was very really nervous, but I’m happy I could pitch a strike as I got strength from the crowd of fans’ and from friends’ support. Although from this year I do activities as a Miyagi Kizuna ambassador, I’m also really excited because pitching at Rakuten Seimei Park Miyagi has been my dream since my young ages. I want Rakuten Eagles to become the best in Japan, and as I’m also a big fan, to become a bit of strength of Rakuten Eagles, I’ll support them with all my might from now on, too!"

Source: https://sp.rakuteneagles.jp/news/detail/00002073.html

[blackfireswallow]

Mario updated his Twitter and wrote about an awesome news ~ ^^ He said:

"⚾️Happy report⚾️ On 25th May (Saturday) At the Rakuten Seimei Park Miyagi I'll do the baseball season opening ceremony at the Rakuten VS Onix match What's this, I'm beyond happy and glad~ Please congratulate. Haha I'll stand on that place where the professional baseball players [were who] I watched as a teenager baseball boy I'll let myself in your care for asking Tentou-sama* for 'clear weather'!!!"

*According to my research, Tentou-sama is the god of the sun

So in short, Mario is going to do another baseball season opening ceremony ^^ It'll be on 25th May and starts at 13:58 Japanese time. He shared this link below as well, on this site there is a link for purchasing tickets, but the ticket sale starts on 25th March. https://www.rakuteneagles.jp/news/detail/00001739.html

Source: https://twitter.com/vithmic_mario/status/1109343502314299392

Source of the photo: https://www.nikkansports.com/baseball/…/201903230000434.html

[ajgbtt]

Here's what ¥3600 *may* get you at Rakuten Seimei Park Miyagi; they've gone all in on the dynamic pricing thing, first #NPB team to do so. Game 5 underway soon! #AJGBTT https://t.co/JfEHeSjaoQ