Taipei Arena

Not to be confused with Taipei Dome.

The Taipei Arena (Chinese: 臺北小巨蛋; pinyin: Táiběi xiǎojùdàn; Wade–Giles: T'ai²pei³ hsiao³chü⁴tan⁴; lit. 'Taipei little big egg') is a multi-purpose stadium in the capital Taipei, Taiwan, and it is operated by the Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation (TRTC). Built in 2005, the large multi-purpose stadium can accommodate major international sport events such as ice skating, ice hockey, gymnastics, handball, basketball, tennis, badminton, table tennis, indoor soccer, boxing, judo, karate, taekwondo and wrestling.

Taipei Arena

臺北小巨蛋
Taipei Arena in 2023
Full name	Taipei Multi-purpose Stadium
Location	Songshan, Taipei, Taiwan
Coordinates	25°03′02.55″N 121°33′0″E
Elevation	4.06 ft (1.24 m)
Public transit	Taipei Arena Station, Taipei Metro
Owner	Taipei City Government
Operator	Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation (TRTC)
Type	Stadium
Genre(s)	Sporting events, concerts
Capacity	15,000 (sporting events) 7,000–13,000 (concerts)
Field size	76 × 41.5 m
Field shape	Rectangular
Scoreboard	Yes
Construction
Built	December 2001–July 2005
Opened	1 December 2005; 18 years ago (2005-12-01)
Construction cost	$4.7 billion TWD
Architect	Populous
Builder	BES Engineering Corporation
Website
english.arena.taipei

Building

It was designed by Archasia, an architectural firm based in Taipei, and Populous, a Kansas City, Missouri, design and architectural firm specializing in sports venues.^[1] It is located at the site of the former Taipei Municipal Baseball Stadium (built in 1958, opened 1959, demolished 2000). The arena was opened on 1 December 2005. The main arena has an adjustable floor space: its minimum floor space is 60m × 30m, and can be extended to 80m × 40m.

The Chinese Taipei Ice Hockey League (CTIHL) plays out of the auxiliary arena, which is a 60m × 30m ice skating rink. The basement now houses two large gas turbine power generators to be used for the surrounding district during emergencies.^[2]

Taipei Arena Sky Screen

Taipei Arena Sky Screen

Taipei Arena Sky Screen was constructed in December 2006, on the outer glass wall of Taipei Arena. It was the world's largest LED display at that time.^[3]

The screen is a long arc type outdoor dynamic display, featuring a built in light sensor that enables LED to adjust its own brightness according to ambient lighting. It was built by Optotech and currently operated by Nova Media. It is on 24 hours a day and 365 days a year, displaying mainly corporate advertisements, live coverage and visual creativity supplemented content.

The screen also engages its audience though cross-screen interactive events and applications.

Events

Since opening in 2005, the arena has held more art and cultural activities (such as live concerts) than sporting events, which it was originally designed and built for. These have included Disney on Ice, Cirque du Soleil, and Cats.^[4]

International Artists in the table below are highlighted in light blue.

Year	Date	Nationality of performers	Name of performers	Name of tour	Note
2005	November 18	Taiwan	Show Lo	–	–
2006	July 29	Singapore	Stefanie Sun	–	She is the 1st woman and Singaporean Singer to hold her concert at the venue.
	December 16	Taiwan	S.H.E	Perfect 3 World Tour	–
	December 29	Singapore	JJ Lin	Just JJ World Tour	–
2007	March 24	Japan	Ayumi Hamasaki	Tour of Secret	–
	April 21 & 22	Australia	Olivia Newton-John	Body Heart & Spirit Tour	1st concert performed at the arena by an international artist.
	July 6 & 7	Hong Kong	Jacky Cheung	Snow Wolf Lake Tour	–
2008	March 2	United States	Backstreet Boys	Unbreakable Tour	1st American act to perform at the venue.
	June 7	Malaysia	Fish Leong	Today Is Our Valentine's Day	1st Malaysian artist to perform at the arena.
	June 8	United States	The Osmonds	The Osmonds 50th Anniversary Reunion Concert	–
	November 1 & 2	Japan	Ayumi Hamasaki	Asia Tour 2008: 10th Anniversary	–
2009	April 4 & 5	United Kingdom	Sarah Brightman	The Symphony World Tour	–
	May 15 & 16	Singapore	Stefanie Sun	"The Answer Is......" World Tour	–
	June 20 & 21	Japan	Namie Amuro	Best Fiction Tour	–
	October 24 & 25	Taiwan	Fahrenheit	Fantasy World Tour	The concert was filmed for their Fahrenheit's Fantasy World Tour Taipei Special DVD.
	December 31	Taiwan	Elva Hsiao	–	–
2010	February 20 & 21	South Korea	Super Junior	Super Show 2 Tour	This was the 1st concert from a K-pop artist at the venue.
	February 25	United States	Backstreet Boys	This Is Us Tour
	March 27	United States	Coco Lee	East To West World Tour	–
	April 24	Taiwan	Rainie Yang	Whimsical World	This was the debut concert of her music career.
	May 15	Taiwan	Show Lo	Dance Storm 舞法舞天	He was the 1st artist who held 3 concerts in 24 hours.For this concert's theme, he was also the first artist with a 3D music video for his song "Dance Storm" (舞法舞天), which can be view in 3D by the naked eye.
	May 29	Taiwan	S.H.E	S.H.E Is The One World Tour	–
	June 11, 12, 13	Taiwan	Jay Chou	The Era World Tour	–
	August 27 & 28	Japan	KAT-TUN	No More Pain	The concert was filmed and recorded into a DVD that was released a few months later.
	October 16 & 17	South Korea	Girls' Generation	Girls' Generation Asia Tour Into the New World	–
	December 18	Taiwan	Crowd Lu	Good Morning & Good Evening	This was his 1st concert at the arena. The show started at 10:00, followed by a lunch break and a movie screening in the afternoon, and continued at 19:30.
	December 24, 25 & 26	Taiwan	Jolin Tsai	Myself World Tour	–
2011	January 14 & 15	Hong Kong	Eason Chan	DUO Tour	–
	January 21, 22 & 23	Hong Kong	Faye Wong	–	–
	March 11, 12 & 13	South Korea	Super Junior	Super Show 3 Tour	–
	April 3	United States	Bob Dylan	Never Ending Tour 2011
	May 15	Canada	Justin Bieber	My World Tour
	May 28 & 29	Malaysia	Fish Leong	"Love Library" World Tour	–
	July 16	South Korea	Shinee	SHINee WORLD	–
	August 18, 19, 20 & 21	Hong Kong	Jacky Cheung	1/2 Century World Tour	He set a new record for a foreign artist to have 4 consecutive shows in Taipei Arena.
	September 9, 10 & 11	South Korea	Girls' Generation	Girls' Generation Tour	–
2012	February 2, 3, 4 & 5	South Korea	Super Junior	Super Show 4	They set a record for the fastest selling concerts in Taiwan with 40,000 fans.[5]
	October 20 & 21	South Korea	Big Bang	Alive Galaxy Tour	–
	November 16	South Korea	2NE1	New Evolution Global Tour	–
2013	February 23 & 24	Japan	Namie Amuro	Namie Amuro 2013 Asia Tour	–
	May 9 & 10	South Korea	G-Dragon	One of a Kind World Tour	–
	June 28, 29 & 30	Canada United States	Cirque du Soleil	Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour	–
	July 20 & 21	South Korea	Girls' Generation	Girls' Generation World Tour Girls & Peace
	August 10, 11 & 12	South Korea	Super Junior	Super Show 5	–
	August 17	United States	Linkin Park	Living Things World Tour	–
	December 14	United Kingdom	Sarah Brightman	Dreamchaser World Tour	–
	December 20	Canada	Triumph	Our Home Ground	–
2014	November 29 & 30	South Korea	Super Junior	Super Show 6 Tour
2015	April 28	United States	Katy Perry	The Prismatic World Tour	–
	May 22, 23, 24 & 25	Taiwan	Jolin Tsai	Play World Tour	–
	June 12 & 13	South Korea	Exo	Exo Planet 2 – The Exo'luxion	–
	September 24, 25, 26 & 27	South Korea	Big Bang	Made World Tour	–
	November 5, 6, 7 & 8	Taiwan	Jolin Tsai	Play World Tour	–
2016	January 2	Taiwan	Cyndi Wang	Cyndiwants World Tour	–
	February 4 & 6	United States	Madonna	Rebel Heart Tour	The highest ticket price of it goes to 30,000 TWD, which is also the highest in Taiwan performance history. The box office of both performances up to 202 million TWD, making the most successful box offices in Taiwan performance history.
	April 22	South Korea	iKon	iKoncert 2016: Showtime Tour	–
	August 7	United Kingdom	Sarah Brightman	Gala - An Evening With Sarah Brightman	–
	May 7 & 8	South Korea	Girls' Generation	Girls' Generation's Phantasia	–
	November 26 & 27	South Korea	Exo	Exo Planet 3 – The Exo'rdium	–
	December 17, 18, 21, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31 & 1 January 2017	Taiwan	Mayday	Just Rock It World Tour	Each show has its own different icon, Dec 17 – Re: Just Rock It, 18 – Re: Nowhere, 21 – Re: DNA, 23 – Re: Jump, 24 – Re: Final Home, 25 – Re: Union, 30 – Re: Where Are You Going, 31 – Re: Stand Out, Jan 1 – Re: 168
2017	September 19	United States	Ariana Grande	Dangerous Woman Tour	–
2018	March 17	Japan & Taiwan	Glay & Mayday	Glay Arena Tour 2018 "Springdelics"	–
	March 31 & 1 April	South Korea	Super Junior	Super Show 7	–
	April 4	United States	Katy Perry	Witness: The Tour	–
	May 19 & 20	Japan	Namie Amuro	Namie Amuro Final Tour 2018 Finally	100,000 Taiwanese fans jammed the online ticketing system for 22,000 tickets, all tickets were sold out within three minutes.[6]
	July 11, 13 & 14	Canada	Celine Dion	Celine Dion Live 2018	Even with a high ticket prices, more than 300.000 fans clambered for 20.000 tickets for the artist first ever show in Taiwan. It ended up with broken the ticket system. Celine later added 1 additional show here.[7]
	September 22	South Korea	iKon	IKon 2018 Continue Tour	–
2019	January 27	Japan	Nogizaka46	Nogizaka46 LIVE in Taipei 2019	–
	February 1 & 2	Japan	Mr. Children	Mr.Children Tour 2018–19 Live in Taiwan	–
	April 13 & 14	China	Joker Xue	Skyscraper World Tour	The first singer from mainland China to hold two consecutive concerts at Taipei Arena
	May 11	Taiwan	Eric Chou	How Have You Been Asia Tour	–
	September 28 & 29	South Korea	Exo	Exo Planet 5 – Exploration	–
	October 19	Japan	AKB48 & AKB48 Team TP	~AKB48 in Taipei 2019 ~ Are You Ready For It? ~	–
	November 6 & 7	Taiwan	Fei Yu-ching	Fei Yu Qing Farewell Concert Encore Show	–
2020	January 19	Japan	Nogizaka46	Nogizaka46 LIVE in Taipei 2020	–
	August 8 & 9	Taiwan	Eric Chou	How Have You Been Deluxe Tour	It is the first large-scale arena concert in the world since the COVID-19 pandemic happened.
2022	October 21–23	Taiwan	Eric Chou	Odyssey~ Journey Tour	–
	November 19 & 20	Taiwan	Nick Chou	REALIVE Taipei Concert	–
	November 26 & 27	South Korea	Super Junior	Super Show 9: Road	–
2023	June 24	South Korea	Taeyeon	The Odd of Love	She is the 1st South Korean female solo artist to hold the concert at the venue.
2024	April 6–7	South Korea	IU	HEREH World Tour	–
	June 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, & 16	Hong Kong	Jacky Cheung	The Jacky Cheung 60+ Concert Tour	–

Non-Entertainment Events:

• Inaugural ceremony and celebrations of President Ma Ying-Jeou and Vice-President Vincent Siew on 20 May 2008.

Dates Unknown:

• Jolin Tsai performed her 1st concert in the arena in November 2006 for her Dancing Forever World Tour.
• Japanese singer Ayumi Hamasaki's Asia Tour, which had more than 10,000 tickets sold out in 1 hour. That was the 1st concert at the venue to be performed by a J-Pop artist.
• Taiwanese Aborigine pop star Chang Hui-mei's STAR TOUR world tour.
• Irish-American dancer and musician Michael Flatley reprises his role as Lord of the Dance in the Feet of Flames 2009 tour.
• The Indiana Pacers vs Denver Nuggets game was the first (United States) National Basketball Association game held in the country back in 2009.
• In the rotation for the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships. The venue is a frequent host of the International Skating Union figure skating championship for the Americas, Asia, Oceania, and Africa.

Annual events:

• The annual Chinese New Year eve program, Super Star (超級巨星紅白藝能大賞) was held annually since 2011. The live special is based on the NHK's New Year's Eve special Kōhaku Uta Gassen.^[8]

Transport

Taipei Arena is accessible from Taipei Arena Station of the Taipei Metro.

References

1. "運動場館規劃設計經驗分享". Taiwan Architect.
2. "Taipei Arena". Archived from the original on 22 July 2009. Retrieved 15 February 2010.
3. "Nova Media". Retrieved 5 Aug 2014.
4. "又來了 小巨蛋沒有LED計分器" (in Chinese). China Times. 2007-03-14. Archived from the original on 2007-03-18.
5. "Super Junior Breaks Records with ‘Super Show 4’ in Taiwan" CJ E&M enews World. 2012-02-26
6. "100,000 Taiwanese fans scramble for 'Namie Amuro Final Tour 2018' tickets". March 2018.
7. "300,000 fans crash ticket system for Celine Dion concerts in Taipei, more shows possible | Taiwan News | 2018-01-23 10:18:00". 23 January 2018.
8. 葉文正、張瑞振 (2009-10-28). "張小燕 哈林 彈開9年再合體" (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 蘋果日報 (台灣). Archived from the original on 2010-02-03. Retrieved 2010-02-17.

External links

• Official website (in English)
• CIHL official website (in English) (in Chinese)