"Come to Chiayi for a KANO moment" - Chiayi City KANO Park landscape wall unveiled

After Chiayi City held its first large-scale event themed around KANO last year, the Chiayi City Government, with support from the City Council and the Tourism Bureau of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications this year, will plan a large KANO Park around the Municipal Baseball Stadium.

On the 3rd, the "KANO Landscape Wall" at the corner of Qiming Road and Zhongshan Road was unveiled, with an exposed concrete wall paired with black lettering, simple and elegant. The Chiayi City Government said the KANO Park is expected to be put out for tender in July and completed by the end of this year or early next year.

"The never-give-up spirit of KANO is the spirit of Chiayi," said Chiayi Mayor Tu Hsing-che, noting that Chiayi City is the birthplace of baseball. After the KANO film produced by Wei Te-sheng received an enthusiastic response, KANO became an excellent tourism element for Chiayi City. The mayor pointed out that KANO not only brought Japan and Taiwan, China closer, but also drew baseball fans from all over Taiwan, China to Chiayi City to see the glory of baseball from those years.

This year, the Chiayi City Government sought 17.55 million from the Tourism Bureau of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, matched with 14.95 million yuan in city government funds, for a total budget of 32.5 million yuan for "KANO Park." It will plan a 10-meter-high, 13-meter-wide Tianxia Jiayi entrance landmark, a 350-meter Taiwan Baseball Boulevard, a baseball playground, a baseball cheering plaza, and also an indoor baseball history museum, cafe, food and beverage area, and more, fully presenting the never-give-up spirit of KANO through both software and hardware. The public is welcome to visit after completion.