Sapporo Dome boasts hovering stage
(WorldNews Japan)

SAPPORO >> SHARE ADVERTISING SAPPORO >> The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters baseball team plans to move from Sapporo Dome, but the facility will remain one of Hokkaido’s largest event venues, due in large part to its innovative movable turf field. The dome boasts what is said to be the world’s only “hovering soccer stage system,� in which a gigantic natural-turf soccer pitch rolls from outside the stadium into the enclosed arena and then back out again after an event. The stage, with a surface that spans 394 by 279 feet and just over 4 feet high, is a natural-turf soccer pitch. The turf needs water and sunlight, so the stage is usually placed in the open area outside...