Abstract: By using the methods of mathematical statistics and comparative analysis, the study explored the quantitative and structural changes of sports field in Japan, its regional distribution, quantity ranking, scale characteristics, importing the designated manager, the standard for construction of sports field, the allocation of sports instructors and the opening object, form, as well as the frequency of school sports fields, etc. It states that Japan has an over-all high quality of sports field operation and sports space layout, with a multiple sectors' participation in the construction of sports field and the prominent nongovernmental investment in sports field. On the other hand, however, there are difficulties including the decline of the number of venues, the complex school sports field booking procedures and usage inconvenience of field application brought about by school merger or reduction of financial expenditure. It puts forward the enlightenment to China as follows:to simplify the sports field survey indicators to reduce the difficulty of investigation; to strengthen the cooperation among the census departments and establish a long-term statistical mechanism; to transform government functions and strengthen the cultivation of market operators; to coordinate the construction responsibility in various government departments and establish a linked target execution system; to optimize facility resources allocation from the supply side and strengthen the construction of medium and small-sized sports venues; to rely on various stadiums to develop sports clubs to improve the quality of public sports services; to guide schools to classify the open of sports field, and integrate into the department of education evaluation system, and so on.