Fukuoka is seeking to host a compact Olympics to counter the bid of favorite Tokyo as the government of the southwestern city on Friday disclosed its plans to stage the 2016 Games.
The Fukuoka municipal government intends to locate most of the 37 competition venues in the city's three coastal districts and put 24 venues within a radius of 10 kilometers of the athletes' village.
Shooting and some first-round games of the soccer tournament would be held outside Fukuoka Prefecture, according to the bidding plans which were revamped after Fukuoka's original blueprint raised some eyebrows among members of the Japanese Olympic Committee.
Fukuoka initially called for staging an Olympics involving a wider area, with competition venues scattered over all prefectures on the island of Kyushu, running counter to the recent worldwide trend of planning a compact Olympic bid.
Fukuoka Mayor Hirotaro Yamasaki will submit the city's bidding plans to the JOC on April 24.
The Tokyo metropolitan government has drawn up similar, compact plans featuring the use of existing facilities, although it has yet to make an official announcement of its detailed plans.
The JOC will choose the city that will move on to the international bidding process on Aug. 30. Fukuoka and Tokyo are the only candidates after Sapporo withdrew earlier this year.
Japan has hosted Olympic Games three times. Tokyo staged the Summer Olympics in 1964 while the Winter Games were held in Sapporo in 1972 and in Nagano in 1998.