A new sports facility has opened in Tokyo’s Chofu City.
A new sports facility has opened in Tokyo’s Chofu City.
It will be one of the venues for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. An opening ceremony for the Musashino Forest Sport Centre was held on Saturday. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said the center is the first to open among the new facilities for the 2020 Games. She said she wants to boost everyone’s mood for the event. Koike later watched a sitting volleyball game and applauded the plays. The new facility will be used for the badminton and modern pentathlon fencing events in the Olympics as well as wheelchair basketball in the Paralympics.
