For running brands, run stations, shops, hotels and tours. Run Tokyo is a free field guide for everyone who runs in Tokyo: residents on the palace loop before work, the clubs that meet every week, and the visitors who fly in for a race. It is read in nine languages, Japanese included. We keep it clean, and we take a very small number of partners who make running here better.
Tokyo’s own runners read it all year. Visitors read it before a race. Most of what a brand sells, both of them need.
One adult in ten in Tokyo’s 23 wards ran at least once in 2024, the highest share of any kind of city in Japan. Residents and clubs use the guide all year: a new loop, the heat index in summer, kit for each season, shops, clubs and the race calendar, in Japanese or in their own language.
The Tokyo Marathon on 7 March 2027 has a field of 40,000, and one independent analysis puts the share from abroad in 2026 near 46%. They plan their whole week with the guide: where to run, the EXPO, kit, food and a place to stay.
We count unique visitors, countries, languages and referrers without cookies or personal data. Ask for the latest month and we send the numbers as they are.
One partner per place on the page.
For brands that want Tokyo’s own runners. You present one season of the running year for three months: spring (March to May), summer (June to August), autumn (September to November) or winter (December to February), with one line and one offer in that season’s pages.
The Race week section, read by visitors and by every local racer from 1 February to the day after the race: the EXPO, the start, the day before, bags and the finish. One brand presents it, with one line and one real offer.
For run stations, shops, hotels and tours already in the guide. You add one offer for our readers, locals and visitors alike, to your existing card, marked PR. Your place in the guide does not change.
For running tours, coaching and stays. A link marked PR where a runner would look for you anyway, paid only for completed bookings. We count bookings, never who made them.
Run clubs: we list clubs on merit and for free. A club that wants to work with a brand through the guide is welcome to write.
A partner appears as one line in the guide’s own type, inside the place it belongs to. No banners, no pop-ups, no third-party scripts. Readers trust the guide because every fact has a source, so the offer gets read.
Showers and lockers close to the west side of the palace loop. Check prices and hours before you go.
PRShow this page: a free towel with your visit.
What we promise readers, and you.
Niz writes and keeps the guide. Write to him and say which way you want to take part. We answer within two working days.