The Morioka Ice Rink Memorial Cup is an annual tournament on the men's World Curling Tour Japan. It is held annually in June at Morioka Ice Rink in Morioka, Japan.
The purse for the event is ¥ 240,000. Its event classification is 100.
The event has been held since 2015. The 2015, 2019 and 2023 events were part of the World Curling Tour. The event was part of the Asia Pacific Curling Tour until 2018.
A women's event was held in 2015 and 2019.
As of 2025, the winning team(s) qualify for the Vancouver Island Shootout.
Men's champions Year Winning team Runner up team Winner's share (¥) 2015 I.C.E. (Junpei Kanda, Naoki Iwanaga, Shota Iino, Shotaro Hashimoto) Tokyo 4K (Hiroshi Fukui, Kota Onodera, Ken Suehiro, Syun Tanaka) 2016 Bansei Curling Club I.C.E (Tokyo Curling Club) 2017 Bansei Curling Club (Naomasa Takeda, Kyousuke Fujii, Koji Nisato, Hiroshi Fukui) NS (Hiromitsu Kuriyama, Ryo Kawanishi, Katsuhito Sumi, Satoshi Koizumi) 2018 Maple Leafs (Satoru Tsukamoto, Suguru Tsukamoto, Nobuhito Kasahara, Manabu Aoki) Karuizawa WILE (Ryo Ogihara, Kohei Okamura, Daiki Yamazaki) 2019 Team Ogihara (Ryo Ogihara, Akira Ohtsuka, Manabu Aoki, Naoki Kaneko) SC Karuizawa Club (Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Riku Yanagisawa, Satoshi Koizumi, Fukuhiro Ohno) ¥80,000 2020 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan 2021 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan 2022 Team KON (Masaki Fujimura, Yuuki Ogasawara, Chihiro Kon (skip), Tetsusei Yamaguchi) Hot Shot ! (Kotaro Noguchi, Yuto Kamada, Hiroshi Kato, Yuuki Yoshimura) 2023 Caravan (Kouki Tonuma, Shusaku Takata, Hidetake Ohtani, Ken Suehiro) Hot Shot ! (Kotaro Noguchi, Yuto Kamada, Horishi Kato, Yuuki Yoshimura) ¥80,000 2024 Gandhi Pierrot (Hiroki Hasegawa, Kishiro Kyo, Ryohei Maruyama, Kentaro Hashimoto) Team Segawa (Chikara Segawa, Koei Sato, Kaishi Sato, Hidenobu Segawa) ¥80,000 2025 Gandhi Pierrot (Hiroki Hasegawa, Kishiro Kyo, Ryohei Maruyama (skip), Kentaro Hashimoto) Team Hayashi (Takamori Chikahiro, Genji Ohara, Rio Hayashi (skip), Shotaro Maekawa) ¥80,000
Women's champions Year Winning team Runner up team Winner's share (¥) 2015 Sapporo Gakuin University (Mizuki Kitaguchi, Mayu Minami, Mayu Natsuizaka, Mari Ikawa) Team Fujiyama (Junko Nishimuro, Misato Yanagisawa, Tori Koana (skip), Riko Toyoda) 2019 Fujikyu (Tori Koana, Yuna Kotani, Mao Ishigaki, Arisa Kotani) Team Tokachi (Risa Tsujimura, Eriko Shima, Minori Abe, Kanami Muguruma) ¥80,000
References
External links Official website