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The Gocheok Dome, Korea’s first domed baseball park is well under construction and has been receiving wide attention. However, there have been other voices of concern about the absence of using plan based on the expecting difficulty with attracting a professional baseball team and the location with lower accessibility and so on. In the meantime, a news has been released that Seoul City has developed a plan for another multi-purpose dome complex in Chamsil for not only baseball but also concerts and other events. Because it needs a great amount of cost for the construction of domed baseball park, careful approaches should be needed. From this kind of situation, in this study 6 built domed park cases in Japan were analyzed focused on the critical elements in planning baseball dome stadium. From the result, all the 6 domes in Japan were designed for the multi purpose stadium with circular shaped stand type. Regarding the roof type, which is a huge factor for the construction cost, although there exists various types such as air membrane structure type, retractable roof type, partially opened type with transparent material for natural lights, it could be found out there exists one tendency of selecting the type that could reduce the running and maintenance cost. At the last part of the paper, through the procedure of the analysis, a suggestion on the proper dome type in Korea from the contemporary situation.