Miyamoto Musashi Budokan

The main arena on the first floor can receive six kendo courts. The second floor contains 838 spectator seats. International kendo competitions are regularly organized there.[2]

• Main arena 1,376 m² (42 m x 32 m), (139 ft x 105 ft)
  • 6 kendo (11 m x 11 m), (36 ft x 36 ft)
  • 2 volleyball
  • 1 basketball
  • 8 badminton

• Room dedicated to Budo 322 m² (23 m x 14 m), (75 ft x 46 ft)
  • 2 Kendo (9 m x 9 m), (29 ft x 29 ft)
  • 2 Judo

Auxiliary facilities: training room, meeting room, fitness room, health / physical consultation room, rest room, equipment depot, changing rooms, shower rooms, room dedicated to broadcasting, offices

The project was designed by Sensei Tadashi Chihara guarantor and tenth of the line of Miyamoto Musashi.[3] The architectural design of the Miyamoto Musashi Budokan was entrusted to Wataru Numata.[4][5]

The structure of the main arena surrounded by two floors above the ground is made of reinforced concrete. The total floor area is 6049 m² (the first floor of 4252 m² and the second floor 1797 m²). The building has been certified by Heart Building.

This Budokan represents a samurai helmet or kabuto symbol of the Okayama prefecture and recalls the label as well as the central personality of the Japanese culture and native of the country, Musashi.[6]

The delivery took place in May 2000 preceding the inauguration of May 20, 2000, in memory of the anniversary date of Miyamoto Musashi (March 12, 1584, Ōhara-Chō - May 19, 1645[1]).

The inauguration of the Miyamoto Musashi Budokan enabled the perpetuation of the twinning between the inhabitants of Ōhara (Japanese province of Mimasaka) and the inhabitants of Gleizé. On March 4, 1999, the village of Ōhara was twinned with Gleizé in the presence of Sensei Tadashi Chihara guarantor and tenth of the line of Miyamoto Musashi who notably carried the mandate of the mayor of Ōhara at the time Yuki Hiroshi, and in the presence of the mayor by Gleizé, Mrs. Élisabeth Lamure. Following an official presentation of martial arts, the “Miyamoto Musashi School” (Heiho Kadensho Niten Ichi Ryu) from Japan located in Ōhara-Cho proposes to make the Gleizé Dojo the main school of Miyamoto Musashi in the West and gives it the koryū (traditional school)[7] title. On Thursday March 4, 1999, this dojo officially acquired the name "Dojo Miyamoto Musashi".[8] The event continues with the official invitation of Japan to the newly elected mayor Fukuda Yoshiaki, with the subsequent visit of the mayor of Gleizé on May 20, 2000 to Ōhara for the inauguration of the Miyamoto Musashi Budokan and by the presence of a large delegation of Japanese authorities. The Heiho Niten Ichi Ryu Memorial located in Gleizé was established to promote and guarantee the memory of these relations as well as of the regions and countries which officially and successively joined them; Japan, France, Cambodia,[9] ASEAN,[10] Russia[11] and in parallel, the province of Mimasaka, the Rhône-Alpes region, the Center region and the Burgundy region. Each of the seventeen flags of the Heiho Niten Ichi Ryu Memorial floated successively in front of the façade of the Miyamoto Musashi Budokan in order to recall the close bond that unites the two communes. Similarly, in May of each year, several carp or koinobori (a symbol widely used in Japan) float at the memorial masts.

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  the 10 th. Tadashi Chihara.
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  Twinning between Ōhara and Gleizé signed by Tadashi Chihara Sensei guarantor and tenth line of Miyamoto Musashi, and the Mayor of Ōhara, Yuki Hiroshi.
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  Official publication of the town hall of Gleizé - 1999. Sensei Tadashi Chihara guarantor and tenth of the line of Miyamoto Musashi, Élisabeth Lamure, and Ghislain de Longevialle.
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  Tadashi Chihara Sensei and Élisabeth Lamure during the transmission of the name of the school : the Miyamoto Musashi dojo in Gleizé represents the Miyamoto Musashi School in Japan.
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  Inauguration of Miyamoto Musashi Budokan.
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  Inauguration of Miyamoto Musashi Budokan.
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  Élisabeth Lamure wears the Japanese cockade during her speech at the inauguration of the Miyamoto Musashi Budokan in Ōhara, Mimasaka province on May 20, 2000.
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  Master Moriwa and Élisabeth Lamure during the inauguration of Miyamoto Musashi Budokan.
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  Inauguration of Miyamoto Musashi Budokan.
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  Mayor of Ōhara-Cho about the Miyamoto Musashi Budokan
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  Japanese article from 2005.
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  The Heiho Niten Ichi Ryu Memorial has been ensuring the sustainability of the twinning between Ōhara and Gleizé since December 8, 2014.
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  Carps and flags of which those of Japan, Mimasaka and the Holy Spirit in front of the Miyamoto Musashi Budokan façade of honour.
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  The 10th. Tadashi Chihara.

Chizu Express, Chizu Line, Miyamoto Musashi Station 10 minutes on foot.

• Views of Miyamoto Musashi station
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