A 5,387 square metre prefectural ice arena with places for 2,132 spectators, open each October to March
The ALSOK Gunma Ice Arena is one of the venues of the Gunma Sports Center in Maebashi, which opened in 1981 as the Gunma General Gymnasium Centre and took its present name after the Gunma Arena and the Fureai ground were finished in November 1996. The centre was used for the Akagi national sports festival and its grounds cover about 219,000 square metres. Since 2015 a company, Gunma Sogo Guard System, has held the naming rights, which is why the ice arena carries the ALSOK name.
The ice arena is a two-storey reinforced-concrete building of 5,387 square metres with 2,132 spectator places (1,678 fixed seats and 454 standing places) and room for up to 6,032 people. The ice is used from October to March for public skating, figure skating, ice hockey and short track.
Public skating is closed on Mondays, or on the next day when the Monday is a holiday, and the arena names free days: opening day on 1 October, Gunma Citizens' Day on 28 October and, for children, the second and fourth Saturday of each month.
Admission, rentals and arrival details, researched from official rink information. Source checks stay current for 30 days.
Skating costs ¥1,100 for adults and ¥600 for high school students and younger when you enter from 9 am, and ¥800 and ¥400 when you enter from 5 pm; pre-school children and spectators are free. Hire skates cost ¥310 for the day.
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Hire skates cost ¥310 for the day, in figure sizes 15 to 30 cm, hockey sizes 23 to 29 cm and half-speed sizes 23 to 29.5 cm.
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Helmets, knee pads and elbow pads can be borrowed free of charge.
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