Back in 2015 I made the momentous decision to switch my baseball allegiance from Chiba Lotte Marines to Hiroshima Carp. Off the back of a trip with my wife’s parents to watch Carp in action it seemed like the right thing to do and would give me something to talk to my father-in-law about. Given that I don’t really care too much about Japan’s most popular sport though, it really wasn’t such a big deal!
Having had a look around some of the city centre in the afternoon on the day of the game, I decided to take a bus the relatively short distance east to the rather ridiculously-named Mazda Zoom Zoom Stadium. Big mistake! Continue reading











