All you need to know about Wales' Rugby World Cup 2019 venues
Wales v Georgia - 23rd September, 19:15 - City of Toyota Stadium
45,000 capacity
Wales will feel somewhat at home at the 45,000-seater City of Toyota Stadium with its Principality-esque, fully-retractable roof.
Built in 2001, it’s more used to housing Japanese football than it is rugby, but it has also acted as home for Top League rugby side Toyota Verblitz.
The ground is more usually the home of J-League football side Nagoya Grampus, who can claim the stadium’s sub-capacity record attendance of 42,919 v Arsenal in 2013.
Wales will face Georgia here in their first match of the tournament on September 23rd - a game they’ll be expected to win comfortably before moving on to the bigger challenge of Australia in round two.
Australia v Wales - 29th September, 16:45 - Tokyo Stadium
49,970 capacity
Tokyo’s 49,970-seater Tokyo Stadium became the first stadium in Japan to sell its naming rights when it became the Ajinomoto Stadium in a five-year, £7.5m deal in March 2003.
Another stadium principally build to host football, it’s normally the home of J. League Division 1 football side F.C. Tokyo and J. League Division 2 football club Tokyo Verdy.
By the time Wales arrive there for round two, there will already have been plenty of action at the venue. It’s set to host the tournament’s opening ceremony and the first game too.
As an aside, it was used as a temporary shelter for victims of Japan’s devastating Tsunami back in 2011.
Wales v Fiji - 9th October, 18:45 - Oita Stadium
40,000 capacity
Another stadium completed in the pre-2002 football World Cup push, the Oita Stadium will play host to Wales’ third game in Pool D against Fiji on October 9th.
By the time Wales arrive here, they will be hoping to have made it two-from-two and on course to top the pool for the knockout stages. However, should they slip up against Australia, it could prove an awkward meeting with the ever-dangerous Fijians (France 2007, anyone?)
The 40,000-seater ground at Oita is another ground with a retractable roof - ideal should Wales’ travelling hordes want to ramp up the volume.
Wales v Americas 2 - 13th October, 15:15 - Kumamoto Stadium
32,000 capacity
Wales' final pool game will see them head to the south-west coast of the country as they set up camp at the 32,000-seater Kumamoto Stadium.
Alternatively known as Umakana Yokana Stadium, Wales will again feature at a ground more used to hosting J-League football than international events, but it will be transformed for its part in Asia’s first hosting of rugby’s showpiece event.
On the pitch, this will hopefully be Wales’ chance for a no-pressure hit-out before they head into the knockout rounds - but, as we know from history, things are rarely that simple.