Tokyo Marathon

4.8 (12 Reviews)
Tokyo, Japan
02 Mar, 2025 (Sun)
Event size: 25000 - 49999 participants

About the event

The Tokyo Marathon is the largest marathon race in all of Asia, boasting an impressive 30,000 places for runners. With a lottery system used to select runners from the hundreds of thousands of applicants, Japan is definitely a nation of people who love to run. This relatively new event is held in the month of February, which is a great time for marathoning, given the mean temperature of 7 degrees Celsius.

Japan is known for its elite marathon races, which typically possess strict qualifying standards. Yet Tokyo Marathon stands apart from other mass races and elite races alike, being the only one in Japan to encompass an extensive elite field and a large base of participants. The Tokyo Marathon is further distinguished by its theme, “The Day We Unite,” which invites not only runners, but also volunteers and spectators to join forces on race day.

Races offered by this event

You have 1 weeks to prepare

10 km

02 Mar, 2025 (Sun) - 09:10
Running

10 km

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Tokyo Marathon

02 Mar, 2025 (Sun) - 09:10
Running

42.195 km

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The race is designed to pass by several of Tokyo's main tourist spots, including the Imperial Palace, Tokyo Tower, Asakusa, Ginza or the world's largest fish market. It starts at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building and finishes at Tokyo Big Sight Convention Centre.

The course is certified by the JAAF and the AIMS.
Solo
On site
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The map shown is based on data from the past edition of this event. The actual route for the upcoming edition may be different.

Reviews

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Janet Mooney
Mar 2019
42.195 km

A great marathon people are so friendly! One thing to be aware of is the cut off times at the various distances throughout the race, I was glad I knew about them prior to going.

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Dan Walding
Country flag of AU
Feb 2017
42.195 km

Just FYI, the map shown is the old course. The new course finishes at the Imperial Palace, not at the Darth Vader building. Huge race, 35,000+ competitors. Very flat course and the new course is flatter than the old one. I really love it!

42.195 Km. It's a gold label race. Lots of runners, but staggered start based on estimated finishing time. Very flat.

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Sunny Schippers
Country flag of NL
Feb 2016
42.195 km

Well.. I just love Tokyo. It's my favorite city in the world. You just can't compare its vibe with any other city. It's crazy, it's wicked, it's strange...and it's full of Sushi. When I first visited this city in 2012 I knew I had to come back and run its marathon. So in 2016 I got in. It's one of the (overrated) majors and therefor it's hard to get in. But I got lucky in the ballot. If you're not lucky, go out and run Kyoto (the week before Tokyo). And visit Tokyo as well. The marathon itself is extremely well organized. That's how Japanese people take care of everything in their country. The bag drop system was amazing. All bags (more than 30.000 participants) all sorted straight in equal patterns. You just can't believe your eyes. From start till finish, they really take care of you and the Japanese runners are marathon minded. Although more and more foreigners run Tokyo, it still is a Japanese party. If you run Tokyo, make sure you have some time to see more of the country. It's worth it.

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Bartosz Stodolski
Country flag of PL

The best Marathon i ever run !!! What a atmosphere what a course , what an organisation

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Daniel Thomas Massberg
Country flag of DE

Tokyo you got my heart. Everything was perfect and extraordinary well organised. The people are amazing. Just WoW!

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Gita Dimarsandy

Great Crowd. A little bit disapointed for the water station. Not enough water & food for the runner.

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Darko Cvijic
Country flag of RS

Organization is perfect, people is so nice.

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Pin-Hsuan Wu

很熱鬧,像嘉年華。

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Freddie Low
Country flag of SG

Loved it. It was well organised. Wonderful to see the city out to support the run! Except for the light rain, it was a spectacular run.

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Sean Smith
Country flag of IE

Great race fantastic people amazing city my favourite major to date a must do for any runner will be doing in 2019 and csnt wait finish my second round majors here

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SAI CEHONG NG
Country flag of HK

2018 Tokyo Marathon gives me more fun and experience in the race. This is my personal best time in Marathon. This is my second times to race the route of Tokyo Marathon.

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Erwin Nasution

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