| Location |  |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 36°34′32.7″N140°38′55.1″E / 36.575750°N 140.648639°E Coordinates: 36°34′32.7″N140°38′55.1″E / 36.575750°N 140.648639°E |
| Owner | Hitachi City |
| Capacity | 8,464 |
| Opened | 1974 |
Hitachi Stadium(日立市民運動公園陸上競技場Hitachi shimin undōkōen rikujō kyōgiba) is an athletic stadium in Hitachi, Ibaraki, Japan.
A stadium is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event.
Hitachi is a city located in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. As of September 2015, the city had an estimated population of 183,148 and a population density of 811 persons per km2. Its total area is 225.71 km2. Hitachi is well known in the world for its brand name of electric products, including power plants and appliances, of the Hitachi company founded in the town in 1910 by Namihei Odaira with considerable properties as its factories in the city.
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the eastern coast of the Asian continent and stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and the Philippine Sea in the south.
The stadium was constructed for the 1974 National Sports Festival of Japan, which was held in Ibaraki Prefecture, and was used for soccer events.
The National Sports Festival of Japan is the national premier sports event of Japan. It consists of three stages. The skating and ice hockey stage takes place in January, the skiing stage takes place in February, and the main Autumn tournament takes place in September and October. Its name is often abbreviated to Kokutai (国体).
It was one of the home stadium of football club Mito Hollyhock in 2000. [1]
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of eleven players. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field called a pitch with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by moving the ball beyond the goal line into the opposing goal.
