Suffix attached to nouns to indicate a place or facility for a specific activity. Often used in compound words like 運動場 (playground), 駐車場 (parking lot), 競技場 (stadium).
This park has a baseball field.
A new parking lot was built near the station.
Written the same as 場 (じょう) but read ば, this is an independent noun for 'place, scene, or situation' (その場, 場の空気), unlike 場 (じょう) which only works as a suffix like in 運動場.
The kanji 場 originally means 'place' or 'location'. The reading じょう is the on'yomi, commonly used in compound words.
stock-exchange listing; going public; listing shares · staging; performance; presentation
attendance; coming to a venue
livestock farm; ranch; station · pasture; meadow; grazing land
farm
baseball stadium; ballpark
leaving a venue; exit; walkout · exit from the stage; leaving the stage
dojo; martial arts training hall · manda; Buddhist practice place
opening of doors; admission start · inauguration; opening ceremony
airfield; airport; aerodrome
bathhouse; public bath · bathroom
visit; presence; attendance
temporary closure; suspension of operations · absence; sitting out · absence from a sumo bout or tournament · stock exchange holiday; market closure
outside the venue; off the premises; off-track
bicycle parking area; bike parking lot
absence; non-participation; withdrawal
inside the venue; on the premises; in-house
ceremonial hall; place of ceremony
sacred ground; holy site
assembly hall; chamber; the House
fishing grounds; fishing zone
ancient battlefield
funeral hall; funeral home · ceremony site; ritual site