2020 Summer Olympics torch relay

Host city	Tokyo, Japan
Countries visited	Greece, Japan
Distance	20,000 kilometres (12,000 mi)
Theme	Hope Lights Our Way
Start date	12 March 2020 (2020-03-12)
End date	24 July 2020 (2020-07-24)

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The 2020 Summer Olympics torch relay ran from 12 March until 24 July 2020. After being lit in Olympia, Greece, the torch was handed over to the Olympic shooting champion Anna Korakaki, who became the first woman to be first Olympic torchbearer and it will travel to Athens on 19 March. The Japanese leg will begin in Fukushima, and will end in Tokyo's New National Stadium, the main venue of the 2020 Olympics. It will visit Japanese cities, including all 47 prefectural capitals. The torch is reported to go to two remote islands which are part of Tokyo. The end of the relay will be the finale of the 2020 Summer Olympics opening ceremony. Toyota, NTT, JXTG, Nippon Life, JAL, ANA and Japan Post Holdings are the presenting partners of the relay with the slogan being "Hope Lights Our Way".

The torch relay is subject to change due to the ongoing 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. The planned relay leg through Greece was cancelled, and both the lighting ceremony in Olympia and the handover ceremony in Athens had no public attendance.

Torches

The Olympic torch was designed by Tokujin Yoshioka and unveiled 19 March 2019; the design is inspired by cherry blossoms, with 5 petal-shaped columns around the tip of the torch, and a rose-gold "sakura gold" color finish. Their construction will incorporate aluminium recycled from unused shelters deployed in the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

Route in Greece

The traditional lighting ceremony was held on 12 March at Olympia, Greece, and the torch was handed over to the first torchbearer, Anna Korakaki. Due to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, it was the first lighting ceremony since 1984 to be held without spectators. The handover ceremony will be held at Panathenaic Stadium in Athens on 19 March. The torch was to visit 31 cities and 15 landmarks across Greece but due to the coronavirus pandemic, it was cancelled. On 13 March, a small ceremony was held in Sparta.

• 12 March: Olympia, Amaliada, Elis, Pyrgos, Zacharo, Pylos, Messini, Kalamata
• 13 March: Sparta
• Cancelled: (19 March): Athens

Special display

As the damage from the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami mostly affected three prefectures, Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima, a special torch display known as "Flame of Recovery" will be held in these three prefectures. The flame will first arrive at Matsushima Air Field before being displayed at the locations below.

• 20 March: Ishinomaki Minamihama Tsunami Recovery Memorial Park, Ishinomaki
• 21 March: Sendai Station, Sendai
• 22 March: Sanriku Railway and the SL Ginga Steam Locomotive Express (between Miyako, Kamaishi and Hanamaki Stations)
• 23 March: Kyassen Ofunato, Ōfunato, Iwate
• 24 March: Fukushima Station, Fukushima
• 25 March: Aquamarine Fukushima, Iwaki

Route in Japan

Prefecture	Route	Map
Fukushima	26 March (day 1): Naraha to Minamisoma Naraha Hirono Iwaki Hirono Kawauchi Ōkuma Futaba Tomioka Katsurao Namie Minamisōma 27 March (day 2): Sōma to Aizuwakamatsu Sōma Iitate Shinchi Kawamata Fukushima Inawashiro Mishima Kitakata Aizuwakamatsu 28 March (day 3): Minamiaizu to Koriyama Minamiaizu Shimogō Shirakawa Sukagawa Tamura Motomiya Kōriyama	Naraha Minamisōma Sōma Aizuwakamatsu Minamiaizu Kōriyama
Tochigi	29 March (day 4): Ashikaga to Nasukarasuyama Ashikaga Sano Oyama Motegi Tochigi Kaminokawa Mooka Kaminokawa Nasukarasuyama 30 March (day 5): Nasu to Utsunomiya Nasu Sakura Nasushiobara Mashiko Mibu Nikkō Kanuma Utsunomiya	Ashikaga Nasukarasuyama Nasu Utsunomiya
Gunma	31 March (day 6): Tatebayashi to Maebashi Tatebayashi Ōizumi Ōta Ueno Kiryū Isesaki Maebashi 1 April (day 7): Shibukawa to Takasaki Shibukawa Kusatsu Numata Kawaba Naganohara Fujioka Tomioka Takasaki	Tatebayashi Maebashi Shibukawa Takasaki
Nagano	2 April (day 8): Karuizawa to Nagano Karuizawa Saku Yamanouchi Ueda Nozawaonsen Hakuba Nagano 3 April (day 9): Iida to Matsumoto Iida Nagiso Ina Suwa Ōmachi Azumino Matsumoto	Karuizawa Nagano Iida Matsumoto
Gifu	4 April (day 10): Nakatsugawa to Takayama Nakatsugawa Tajimi Yaotsu Gujō Takayama 5 April (day 11): Gero to Gifu Gero Kakamigahara Sekigahara Ōgaki Hashima Gifu	Nakatsugawa Takayama Gero Gifu
Aichi	6 April (day 12): Seto to Nagoya Seto Nagoya Kasugai Nagoya Inuyama Ichinomiya Nagoya Inazawa Kiyosu Nagoya 7 April (day 13): Toyohashi to Toyota Toyohashi Handa Toyokawa Anjō Kariya Okazaki Ōbu Toyota	Seto Nagoya Toyohashi Toyota
Mie	8 April (day 14): Yokkaichi to Ise Yokkaichi Suzuka Kameyama Tsu Toba Ise 9 April (day 15): Iga to Kumano Iga Nabari Matsusaka Taiki Kihoku Kumano	Yokkaichi Ise Iga Kumano
Wakayama	10 April (day 16): Shingū to Wakayama Shingū Nachikatsuura Kushimoto Shirahama Tanabe Gobō Arida Kainan Wakayama 11 April (day 17): Wakayama to Hashimoto Wakayama Iwade Kinokawa Katsuragi Kōya Hashimoto	Shingū Wakayama Hashimoto
Nara	12 April (day 18): Gojō to Kashihara Gojō Gose Katsuragi Totsukawa Sakurai Tawaramoto Tenri Asuka Kashihara 13 April (day 19): Kōryō to Nara Kōryō Kawai Kashiba Yamatotakada Yoshino Ikaruga Yamatokōriyama Nara Uda Ikoma Nara	Kōryō Kashihara Kashiba Nara
Osaka	14 April (day 20): Sakai to Suita Sakai Higashiōsaka Kadoma Hirakata Toyonaka Ikeda Minoh Ibaraki Suita 15 April (day 21): Izumiōtsu to Osaka Izumiōtsu Kaizuka Izumi Kishiwada Osaka Taishi Kashiwara Habikino Fujiidera Osaka	Sakai Suita Izumisano Osaka
Tokushima	16 April (day 22): Miyoshi to Naruto Miyoshi Higashimiyoshi Tsurugi Mima Kamiyama Awa Yoshinogawa Ishii Kamiita Itano Kamiita Itano Aizumi Kitajima Matsushige Naruto 17 April (day 23): Kaiyō to Tokushima Kaiyō Mugi Kamikatsu Minami Naka Katsuura Anan Komatsushima Sanagōchi Tokushima	Miyoshi Naruto Kaiyō Tokushima
Kagawa	18 April (day 24): Utazu to Kan'onji Utazu Marugame Mannō Naoshima Kotohira Zentsūji Tadotsu Mitoyo Kan'onji 19 April (day 25): Sakaide to Takamatsu Sakaide Ayagawa Tonoshō Shōdoshima Higashikagawa Sanuki Miki Takamatsu	Utazu Kan'onji Sakaide Takamatsu
Kōchi	20 April (day 26): Kōchi to Sukumo Kōchi Ino Tosa Susaki Yusuhara Shimanto Shimanto Tosashimizu Sukumo 21 April (day 27): Nankoku to Kōchi Nankoku Kitagawa Kami Tano Kōnan Yasuda Aki Nahari Muroto Tōyō Kōchi	Kōchi Sukumo Nankoku
Ehime	22 April (day 28): Shikokuchūō to Matsuyama Shikokuchūō Kamijima Niihama Saijō Imabari Tōon Masaki Kumakōgen Matsuyama 23 April (day 29): Tobe to Yawatahama Tobe Ainan Iyo Uchiko Ōzu Matsuno Kihoku Seiyo Uwajima Ikata Yawatahama	Shikokuchūō Matsuyama Tobe Yawatahama
Ōita	24 April (day 30): Beppu to Hita Beppu Hiji Kitsuki Kunisaki Himeshima Bungotakada Usa Nakatsu Hita 25 April (day 31): Kusu to Ōita Kusu Kokonoe Yufu Taketa Saiki Tsukumi Usuki Bungo-ōno Ōita	Beppu Hita Kusu Ōita
Miyazaki	26 April (day 32): Takachiho to Miyazaki Takachiho Nobeoka Hyūga Takanabe Saito Miyazaki 27 April (day 33): Miyazaki to Ebino Miyazaki Nichinan Kushima Mimata Miyakonojō Kobayashi Ebino	Takachiho Miyazaki Ebino
Kagoshima	28 April (day 34): Shibushi to Kagoshima Shibushi Kanoya Amami Minamiōsumi Kirishima Aira Kagoshima 29 April (day 35): Izumi to Ibusuki Izumi Nishinoomote Satsumasendai Hioki Isa Minamikyūshū Ibusuki	Shibushi Kagoshima Izumi Ibusuki
Okinawa	2 May (day 36): Naha to Nago Naha Ginowan Ishigaki Okinawa Uruma Nago Motobu Nago 3 May (day 37): Tomigusuku to Itoman Tomigusuku Urasoe Zamami Chatan Miyakojima Nanjō Itoman	Naha Nago Tomigusuku Itoman
Kumamoto	6 May (day 38): Hitoyoshi to Yatsushiro Hitoyoshi Minamata Amakusa Uto Yatsushiro 7 May (day 39): Mashiki to Kumamoto Mashiki Minamiaso Aso Kikuchi Yamaga Nagomi Tamana Kumamoto	Hitoyoshi Yatsushiro Mashiki Kumamoto
Nagasaki	8 May (day 40): Minamishimabara to Nagasaki Minamishimabara Shimabara Unzen Iki Shin-Kamigotō Isahaya Ōmura Nagasaki 9 May (day 41): Nagayo to Sasebo Nagayo Togitsu Saikai Gotō Tsushima Matsuura Hirado Saza Sasebo	Minamishimabara Nagasaki Nagayo Sasebo
Saga	8 May (day 42): Tara to Karatsu Tara Kasima Ureshino Unzen Shiroishi Takeo Arita Imari Genkai Karatsu 9 May (day 43): Kiyama to Saga Kiyama Tosu Miyaki Yoshinogari Kanzaki Kamimine Ogi Taku Ōmachi Kōhoku Saga
Fukuoka	10 May (day 44): Ōmuta to Fukuoka Ōmuta Chikugo Itoshima Kurume Kasuga Asakura Tōhō Dazaifu Fukuoka Shime Fukuoka 11 May (day 45): Chikujō to Kitakyushu Chikujō Tagawa Soeda Iizuka Keisen Miyawaka Munakata Nakama Fukutsu Kitakyushu
Yamaguchi	14 May (day 46): Iwakuni to Yamaguchi Iwakuni Yanai Hikari Kudamatsu Shūnan Hōfu Yamaguchi 15 May (day 47): Ube to Hagi Ube San'yō-Onoda Shimonoseki Mine Nagato Hagi
Shimane	16 May (day 48): Tsuwano to Ōnan Tsuwano Chibu Masuda Hamada Gōtsu Kawamoto Ōnan 17 May (day 49): Ōda to Matsue Ōda Izumo Unnan Okuizumo Okinoshima Yasugi Matsue
Hiroshima	18 May (day 50): Miyoshi to Hiroshima Miyoshi Shōbara Higashihiroshima Kure Saka Hiroshima 19 May (day 51): Hatsukaichi to Matsue Hatsukaichi Kaita Mihara Onomichi Fuchū Fukuyama
Okayama	20 May (day 52): Ibara to Okayama Ibara Takahashi Kibichūō Sōja Kurashiki Okayama 21 May (day 53): Tamano to Tsuyama Tamano Maniwa Akaiwa Mimasaka Nagi Tsuyama
Tottori	22 May (day 54): Sakaiminato to Kurayoshi Sakaiminato Yonago Hiezu Nanbu Nichinan Hino Kōfu Hōki Daisen Kurayoshi 23 May (day 55): Kotoura to Tsuyama Kotoura Hokuei Misasa Yurihama Tottori Iwami Yazu Chizu Wakasa Tottori
Hyōgo	24 May (day 56): Toyooka to Himeji Toyooka Asago Shisō Katō Ono Kakogawa Himeji 25 May (day 57): Kobe to Tamba-Sasayama Kobe Akashi Minamiawaji Nishinomiya Amagasaki Sanda Tamba-Sasayama
Kyoto	26 May (day 58): Kyōtango to Kameoka Kyōtango Miyazu Maizuru Ayabe Fukuchiyama Nagaokakyō Kameoka 27 May (day 59): Uji to Kyoto Uji Ujitawara Jōyō Kizugawa Seika Kyōtanabe Yawata Kumiyama Kyoto
Shiga	28 May (day 60): Takashima to Ōtsu Takashima Moriyama Yasu Ōmihachiman Ryūō Konan Rittō Kusatsu Ōtsu 29 May (day 61): Kōka to Nagahama Kōka Hino Higashiōmi Aishō Toyosato Kōra Taga Hikone Maibara Nagahama
Fukui	30 May (day 62): Takashima to Minamiechizen Takahama Ōi Obama Wakasa Mihama Tsuruga Minamiechizen 31 May (day 63): Echizen to Fukui Echizen Sabae Echizen Ikeda Ōno Katsuyama Eiheiji Awara Sakai Fukui
Ishikawa	1 June (day 64): Kaga to Kanazawa Kaga Komatsu Nomi Kawakita Hakusan Nonoichi Uchinada Kanazawa Kahoku Tsubata Kanazawa 2 June (day 65): Wajima to Nanao Wajima Noto Anamizu Suzu Shika Hakui Hōdatsushimizu Nakanoto Nanao
Toyama	3 June (day 66): Oyabe to Takaoka Oyabe Nanto Tonami Imizu Takaoka Himi Takaoka 4 June (day 67): Asahi to Toyama Asahi Nyūzen Kurobe Uozu Namerikawa Kamiichi Funahashi Tateyama Toyama
Niigata	5 June (day 68): Itoigawa to Minamiuonuma Itoigawa Jōetsu Kashiwazaki Sado Tōkamachi Minamiuonuma 6 June (day 69): Nagaoka to Murakami Nagaoka Sanjō Tsubame Yahiko Niigata Shibata Aga Murakami
Yamagata	7 June (day 70): Nishikawa to Yamagata Nishikawa Sagae Kahoku Shirataka Nagai Takahata Yonezawa Nan'yō Kaminoyama Yamagata 8 June (day 71): Tendō to Sakata Tendō Higashine Murayama Obanazawa Shinjō Tsuruoka Yuza Sakata
Akita	9 June (day 72): Yuzawa to Yamagata Yuzawa Yokote Yurihonjō Misato Daisen Semboku Akita 10 June (day 73): Katagami to Kazuno Katagami Hachirōgata Ōgata Noshiro Ōdate Oga Kazuno
Aomori	11 June (day 74): Hirosaki to Aomori Hirosaki Nishimeya Hirakawa Kuroishi Tsugaru Goshogawara Imabetsu Aomori 12 June (day 75): Mutsu to Hachinohe Mutsu Towada Misawa Oirase Hashikami Towada Hachinohe
Hokkaido	14 June (day 76): Hakodate to Shiraoi Hakodate Nemuro Hokuto Nanae Kushiro Tōyako Obihiro Muroran Shiraoi 15 June (day 77): Tomakomai to Sapporo Tomakomai Furano Mukawa Asahikawa Atsuma Abira Tomakomai Chitose Sapporo Wakkanai Sapporo
Iwate	17 June (day 78): Shizukuishi to Kuji Shizukuishi Takizawa Hachimantai Iwate Ichinohe Ninohe Hirono Fudai Noda Kuji 18 June (day 79): Iwaizumi to Rikuzentakata Iwaizumi Tanohata Miyako Yamada Ōtsuchi Kamaishi Ōfunato Rikuzentakata 19 June (day 80): Ichinoseki to Morioka Ichinoseki Hiraizumi Ōshū Kanegasaki Kitakami Hanamaki Tōno Shiwa Yahaba Morioka
Miyagi	20 June (day 81): Kesennuma to Onagawa Kesennuma Minamisanriku Ishinomaki Onagawa 21 June (day 82): Higashimatsushima to Rifu Higashimatsushima Ōhira Matsushima Shiogama Shichigahama Tagajō Rifu 22 June (day 83): Yamamoto to Sendai Yamamoto Watari Iwanuma Sendai Natori Sendai
Shizuoka	24 June (day 84): Kosai to Shizuoka Kosai Hamamatsu Iwata Fukuroi Kakegawa Shimada Shizuoka 25 June (day 85): Makinohara to Numazu Makinohara Fujieda Yaizu Shizuoka Fuji Nagaizumi Mishima Numazu 26 June (day 86): Itō to Fujinomiya Itō Shimoda Izunokuni Susono Oyama Gotemba Izu Fujinomiya
Yamanashi	27 June (day 87): Nanbu to Kōfu Nanbu Minobu Hayakawa Fujikawa Ichikawamisato Chūō Shōwa Kai Minami-Alps Hokuto Nirasaki Kōfu 28 June (day 88): Fuefuki to Fujiyoshida Fuefuki Yamanashi Kōshū Mount Fuji Uenohara Ōtsuki Tsuru Nishikatsura Oshino Fujikawaguchiko Narusawa Fujiyoshida
Kanagawa	29 June (day 89): Hakone to Fujisawa Hakone Isehara Odawara Ōiso Hiratsuka Chigasaki Fujisawa 30 June (day 90): Miura to Sagamihara Miura Yokosuka Kamakura Ebina Atsugi Sagamihara 1 July (day 91): Kawasaki to Yokohama Kawasaki Yokohama
Chiba	2 July (day 92): Kisarazu to Sanmu Kisarazu Kimitsu Futtsu Minamibōsō Isumi Ichinomiya Sōsa Sanmu 3 July (day 93): Chōshi to Chiba Chōshi Asahi Katori Shibayama Narita Narashino Chiba 4 July (day 94): Urayasu to Matsudo Urayasu Funabashi Kamagaya Kashiwa Abiko Kashiwa Matsudo
Ibaraki	5 July (day 95): Kashima to Mito Kashima Hitachinaka Ōarai Daigo Hitachi Hitachiōta Kasama Mito 6 July (day 96): Koga to Tsukuba Koga Bandō Jōsō Ushiku Ryūgasaki Namegata Tsuchiura Tsukuba
Saitama	7 July (day 97): Koga to Tokorozawa Kawaguchi Warabi Toda Wakō Asaka Niiza Hidaka Sayama Fujimi Fujimino Miyoshi Tokorozawa 8 July (day 98): Sōka to Kumagaya Sōka Yashio Misato Yoshikawa Koshigaya Chichibu Minano Nagatoro Kasukabe Sugito Miyashiro Kuki Kazo Gyōda Kumagaya 9 July (day 99): Kawagoe to Saitama Kawagoe Tsurugashima Sakado Honjō Fukaya Ranzan Higashimatsuyama Namegawa Kōnosu Kitamoto Okegawa Ageo Saitama

Tokyo metropolitan leg

10 July (day 100)

01. Setagaya

02. Komae

03. Inagi

04. Machida

11 July (day 101)

05. Tama

06. Hino

07. Akishima

08. Hachiōji

12 July (day 102)

09. Hinohara

010. Okutama

011. Hinode

012. Ōme

012. Mizuho

13 July (day 103)

013. Hamura

014. Akiruno

015. Fussa

016. Musashimurayama

017. Tachikawa

14 July (day 104)

018. Kunitachi

019. Kokubunji

020. Kodaira

021. Higashiyamato

022. Higashimurayama

15 July (day 105)

023. Kiyose

024. Higashikurume

025. Nishitōkyō

026. Koganei

027. Fuchū

28, 39, 40, 42

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16 July (day 103)

028. Chōfu

029. Miyake

030. Kōzushima

031. Niijima (Nii-jima and Shikine-jima)

032. To-shima

033. Ōshima

17 July (day 104)

034. Mikurajima

035. Hachijō

036. Aogashima

037. Ogasawara (Chichijima and Hahajima)

038. Mitaka

039. Musashino

18 July (day 105)

040. Suginami

041. Nakano

042. Nerima

19 July (day 106)

043. Toshima

044. Itabashi

045. Kita

046. Adachi

20 July (day 107)

047. Katsushika

048. Edogawa

049. Sumida

050. Arakawa

21 July (day 108)

051. Taitō

052. Bunkyō

053. Chiyoda

054. Chūō

22 July (day 109)

055. Kōtō

056. Ōta

057. Shinagawa

23 July (day 110)

058. Meguro

059. Shibuya

060. Minato

24 July (day 111)

060. Shinjuku

061. New National Stadium

End of torch relay

At the 2020 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, the relay will end with the lighting of the cauldron at the New National Stadium. In December 2018, organizers announced that, similar to what happened at the 2016 Summer Olympics, two cauldrons will be built: one inside the Olympic Stadium and another on the waterfront, near the Dream Bridge. The function of the stadium cauldron will be merely scenographic, to go according to what is established in the Olympic Charter. The Dream Bridge cauldron will be the place where the flame will burn during the 16 days of the Games. It will be lighted right after the end of opening ceremony and will be extinguished a few moments before the closing ceremony starts, when the flame will return to the scenographic cauldron inside the stadium and will be burned for its last few moments. The decision to use a public cauldron came from the fact that it would not be possible to maintain the flame burning inside the stadium during the games.

External links

• Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay official website