拉萨市群众文化体育中心体育馆

The gymnasium of Lhasa Public Culture and Sports Center sits inside the Liuwu New Area campus at 1 Xincun North Road. It is the indoor hall of the stadium-gymnasium-museum trio, topped out on 18 August 2013, opened in September 2014 and fitted with 6,000 seats. At about 3,650 metres above sea level it is one of the very few large indoor arenas on the Tibetan plateau. The main floor is set up for basketball but can be converted for badminton, table tennis, volleyball, gymnastics and stage performances, with dressing rooms, officials' rooms, a media area and VIP reception space. When the Lhasa Jingtu men's basketball club was founded in February 2015 it made this hall its home court, where the thin air and quick ball trouble visiting teams and a full house becomes a real advantage. As a public venue the gymnasium is free or low-cost all year, hosting corporate tournaments and youth training by day and opening badminton and basketball courts to residents in the evening, which makes it the main indoor fitness option in Liuwu. It shares plazas, parking and evacuation routes with the 30,000-seat stadium and the Tibet Yak Museum next door, so major events can use the whole campus as one integrated complex, the largest and most concentrated public culture and sports precinct in Lhasa. The building shares its entrance plaza with the stadium and the museum, and the whole campus stays open until midnight. It is open every day of the year, including public holidays, and access is free or low cost.