Artificial turf and artificial turf facility

Artificial turf comprising a primary backing and piles implanted in the primary backing, the piles comprising at least a first pile and a second pile, wherein the first pile is made of polypropylene or polyethylene, and the second pile is made of fibers of an acrylic hydrophilic resin having hydrophilized voids in the inner part thereof, said voids including extremely fine open-cells formed to be thin and elongated along the fiber elongation direction with said open-cells having an average pore size of 10 nm;

• the first and second piles being implanted as a mixture in the primary backing with the second pile implanted so as to satisfy the relationship:
• B/(A+B)=10 to 30% by volume, wherein A represents the implanted amount of the first pile and B represents the implanted amount of the second pile.