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Japanese baseball game, Nagoya Dome

Visited my cousin in Nagoya (neither of us knew the other would be in Japan when deciding to travel!), and went with a small group to a Japanese baseball game.

Fans seemed far more enthusiastic than the American games I’ve been to. (Admittedly, most games I went to were minor league.) Flags, marching band, loud cheers, scantily clad cheerleaders, the works. This is Japan’s football, I guess!

Team names are in English, not Japanese - today was dragons vs tigers, not りゅう vs とら. (Neither was crouching nor hidden.) Google says this is because baseball’s a foreign thing, and in this context foreign is “cool”. Hear that, everyone? I’m cool now!

I’m amazed I’ve never seen vendors with beer-keg backpacks at American games

Originally posted at https://wheres.erosson.org/post/151044534908/japanese-baseball-game-nagoya-dome-visited-my