The stadium's massive lights were also expensive, combined with the fact Japan's electricity at the time was mostly from fossil fuels, and that the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant had just began construction and wouldn't be complete for another 7 years.

The final blow came with the infamous Black Mist Scandal of 1969 and 1970, where ace Fumio Narita was suspended for a month, but by then the team was sold to Lotte, and attendance wasn't getting better, only drawing an average of 8,500 fans despite winning the PL pennant that year, not even selling out a single game that year, only getting close when they clinched the pennant against the Nishitetsu Lions, when attendance recorded was 26,000.

In fact, aside from games played during the Japan Series, the only even that sold out that year was a wrestling event featuring former Giants pitcher Shohei Baba.

So after that, they entered a deal to play a 2/3rd of their games in Sendai at Miyagi Baseball Stadium, with the rest being split between Korakuen and Kawasaki.

After that, no one wanted to move in there, as the Swallows and Toei Flyers were fine with their venues, and so it sat for 5 years before being demolished in 1977 to build a multi-purpose facility for Arakawa citizens.

It wasn't as big as Korakuen, with a maximum capacity of theoretically 35,000, but lowered to 30,700 to abide by fire safety ordinances.

Despite the lower capacity, it was far more luxurious, with seats being wider and made of fibre-reinforced plastic, so they wouldn't easily get hot.

4 were meant for larger parties, and 1 for VIPs, intent on trying to get the Imperial House of Japan to watch an NPB game, like had happened in Korakuen in 1959.

The scoreboard was also smaller compared to other stadiums, so any names with complex Kanji characters would have to be transcribed in Katakana to be easily deciphered from distances.