The government hopes to cap the cost of building the main stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics at ¥155 billion, much lower than the ¥252 billion projected under a recently scrapped plan, government sources said Thursday.

The cap will be part of a new National Stadium construction plan the government will finalize at a meeting of Cabinet ministers on Friday after the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe scrapped the original plan in July amid a popular outcry over its ballooning projected cost.

The stadium's spectator capacity is expected to be left unchanged at 80,000 people to meet the bidding requirement for a soccer World Cup tournament, which Japan hopes to host in the future, the sources said.