ROOKIES (2008) | Tachikawa Park Baseball Stadium — The Brawl That Broke the Team

Tachikawa Park Baseball Stadium, now branded Kotobukiya Stadium, is the real ballpark used in episode 1 of TBS’s 『ROOKIES』 for the baseball-game brawl that hangs over Futakotamagawa High School’s suspended club. The premiere aired April 19, 2008, and the National Filming Location Guide identifies the former Tachikawa Municipal Stadium in Nishikicho 6-chome as this opening-history location.

That scene matters because the series begins after the team’s dream has already collapsed: new teacher Koichi Kawato inherits players marked by the violence and tries to rebuild both the club and their belief in baseball. The stadium remains a working municipal sports facility at 6-29-62 Nishikicho, Tachikawa. The stored coordinate is the mapped stadium-level point, not an inferred dugout, batter’s box, seat, or exact 2008 camera position. Visitors should follow current event and facility-access rules rather than treating an active ballpark as a preserved set.