Asahikawa City, Hokkaido, Japan, announced that it will open its first e-sports stadium in January 2021, a collaboration between the public and private sectors, including NTT East.
ICT base utilizing local 5G
The e-sports stadium "Kokugeki," which will open in January 2021, is an e-sports facility with approximately 200 seats that will be located in a partially renovated building a few minutes' walk from Asahikawa Station.
Asahikawa City plans to allocate 53 million yen in the FY 2008 budget to cover the facility's maintenance and operational expenses for holding events.
The facility will be equipped with a large monitor that will allow multiple players to compete against each other remotely by communicating with the "Exe Field Akiba" e-sports facility in Akihabara, Tokyo.
There will also be a training room for remote education and a facility for programming education.
Asahikawa City, NTT East, and the " Taisetsu Kamui Mintara DMO," a tourist attraction management organization, have formed a consortium (joint venture), which has been commissioned by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) with 130 million yen for the verification experiment.
From January to March 2021, high-speed, high-capacity, low-latency wireless communications will be verified.
The e-sports stadium "Kokugeki" will utilize "Local 5G," a next-generation communication standard used in the city center on a regional basis, and is expected to become a bustling ICT (Information and Communication Technology) hub and a place where young people and foreign tourists can gather.
For more details, see the Hokkaido Shimbun's electronic edition.
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