← All eventsTokyo Marathon
42.195km point-to-point road marathon through central Tokyo. Start at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building (Shinjuku), finish near Tokyo Station. Redesigned flat, net-downhill fast course (~40m climb) — a genuine PB course. Abbott World Marathon Major, 40,000 field, 7-hour cutoff.
Since it dropped the late bridge climbs, Tokyo is a genuine personal-best course: 42.195km of flat, net-downhill closed roads through the heart of the capital, and one of the Abbott World Marathon Majors.
It falls gently from the Metropolitan Government Building in Shinjuku, threads out to the Kaminarimon gate at Asakusa, then swings back through Ginza and the financial district to finish near Tokyo Station.
Flat and fast cuts both ways. No hill slows your eager start, and none gives anything back late. With only ~40m of climbing on the whole route, pacing discipline and fuelling decide your day, not terrain.
Is Tokyo Marathon for you?
- Runners chasing a marathon PB. The flat, wide, well-surfaced roads won't cost you time, so only your pacing will.
- Disciplined pacers who lock into goal pace from the gun. Tokyo rewards even splits and punishes an over-fast start, because no hill forces restraint.
- Runners with a solid base ready for a full marathon. The 7-hour cutoff is friendly, but it's still 42.195km needing 16+ weeks of proper prep.
- Athletes who nail their fuelling. The wall around 30km hides on featureless flat miles, so it favours anyone who has rehearsed 60-90g of carbs an hour.
Training plan for Tokyo Marathon
A training plan for Tokyo Marathon isn't a generic base build. Beina reads the event's exact demands, looks at your specific profile and the time you actually have, and maps a highly adapted plan to the start line.
- 42.195km on flat, fast roads with no hill to force you to ease off and none to recover on
- A generous 7-hour cutoff, but still a full marathon effort of roughly two to seven hours
- The wall at around 30km, the only real 'hill' on the course, arriving with no warning terrain
- Wide, exposed central-Tokyo avenues where wind is the main variable to shelter from
- Marathon-pace long runs up to 35km with 15-20km locked to exact goal pace, fuelled exactly as you will on race day
- Long tempo of 40-60 minutes continuous at marathon pace to groove the precise rhythm you'll hold
- Progressive long runs finishing the last 8-10km at marathon pace, rehearsing the negative split a flat course rewards
- A midweek medium-long run of 14-18km easy to build volume without the cost of a full long run
- Built from your current fitness and the time you actually have
- Adapts every week as Beina learns how you respond
- Syncs your sessions straight to Garmin and Wahoo
- One clear next session, never a wall of spreadsheet
