Nippon Professional League Baseball is coming to Okinawa. Okinawa hosts many of the 12 Japan League teams for their Spring Camp. This cache is located at the spring camp facility of The Chunichi Dragons in Chatan. (北谷公園).
All caches in this series are in a small Tupperware type container.
We wanted to help fellow geocachers get a taste of Nippon Professional League (NPL) baseball. We have made a series of 7 caches each representing the teams that do their spring training here on the main island of Okinawa. Take a walk around the stadium to check out the players practicing or see a live exhibition game. This is part of the NPL Spring Camp 2015 series of 7 caches. FTF all 7 in the series will receive two tickets to a game of your choice! But FYI the only official games are on 21 and 22 Feb so get hunting quick. You can see other practice games once the teams get to Oki including intersquad games but 21-22 are the “official” games for spring camp.
www.dragons.jp
At the stadium was a bit crowded... Park across the street, find the cache, then go watch the players. Kadena Baystars GC5M42Y Chatan Dragons GC5M43D Okinawa city Carp GC5KYQZ Urasoe Swallow GC5KYR7 Naha Giants GC5KZRP Ginoza Tigers GC5M443 Nago Ham Fighters GC5M44C Congrats to T&G FTF all 7 caches in the Spring Camp Series! One more note; we found a new team today. The Kin Eagles have their spring camp at a beautiful park just north of the Kin bridge(ivo N 26 27 41.66 E 127 56 28.73 on your way there check out the guy that has a Kamikaze plane over his garage on the way to the park see the pic attached in the log). I'm going to try to drop a cache there tomorrow on our way up to see a game in Ginoza. BOLO for the Kin Eagles Spring Camp. The Eagles share their facility with the Kia Tigers of the Korean league as well. Happy Caching!
Haqre gurer... abrn