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Host city | Tokyo, Japan |
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Countries visited | Great Britain, Japan |
Theme | Share Your Light |
Start date | 12 August 2021 |
End date | 24 August 2021 |
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2020 Summer Paralympics |
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The 2020 Summer Paralympics torch relay was held from 12 August 2021 to 24 August 2021. After being lit in multiple locations in Japan and Great Britain, the torch was intended to travel around Japan and end in Tokyo's New National Stadium, the main venue of the 2020 Summer Paralympics. [1] The relay took place on a smaller scale than the Olympic relay, starting in Tokyo, with local flames lighted through Saitama, Chiba and Shizuoka prefectures where events of the games were held. [2] [3] [4] The relay ended at the 2020 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony. [5] [6] The LIXIL Corporation was the presenting partner of the torch relay. [7]
The relay started with Flame festivals planned in 43 of prefectures of Japan, as well as additional locations hosting the Paralympics. On 20 August, the flames from each location will be brought together as one, along with an additional flame from Stoke Mandeville, Great Britain, the birthplace of the Paralympic movement, to become a single Paralympic Flame at a ceremony in Tokyo. [8] From 21 to 25 August, the one flame will follow a single route, culminating at the New National Stadium for the opening ceremonies.
Prefecture | Route [9] | Map |
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Hokkaido | 12 August 2021 (day 1): Fukagawa to Mukawa
13 August 2021 (day 2): Eniwa
14 August 2021 (day 3): Ebetsu to Atsuma 15 August 2021 (day 4): Abira
16 August 2021 (day 5): Shiraoi to Sapporo
Unknown date on August 2021 (day unknown): Route unknown
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Aomori | 15 August 2021 (day 4): Hirosaki to Aomori
16 August 2021 (day 5): Misawa
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Iwate | 12 August 2021 (day 1): Hanamaki to Ichinohe
13 August 2021 (day 2): Yahaba to Hirono
14 August 2021 (day 3): Iwate to Sumita 15 August 2021 (day 4): Morioka to Ninohe
16 August 2021 (day 5): Takizawa to Morioka
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Miyagi | 12 August 2021 (day 1): Kesennuma
15 August 2021 (day 4): Sendai to Hachimantai
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Akita | 12 August 2021 (day 1): Kazuno to Higashinaruse 14 August 2021 (day 3): Odate to Ikawa 15 August 2021 (day 4): Akita to Ōgata 16 August 2021 (day 5): Yokote to Akita
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Yamagata | 12 August 2021 (day 1): Yamagata to Yuza 13 August 2021 (day 2): Sakata to Asahi 14 August 2021 (day 3): Tsuruoka to Mamurogawa 15 August 2021 (day 4): Shinjō to Akita
16 August 2021 (day 5): Yonezawa to Tendō
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Fukushima | 12 August 2021 (day 1): Naraha to Hirono 13 August 2021 (day 2): Fukushima
14 August 2021 (day 3): Inawashiro
15 August 2021 (day 4): Kōriyama
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Ibaraki | 16 August 2021 (day 5): Mito
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Tochigi | 16 August 2021 (day 5): Utsunomiya | |
Gunma | 16 August 2021 (day 5): Tomioka to Isesaki
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Kanagawa | 12 August 2021 (day 1): Matsuda
13 August 2021 (day 2): Yokohama to Aikawa
14 August 2021 (day 3): Kawasaki to Ōiso | |
Niigata | 12 August 2021 (day 1): Joetsu to Awashimaura
13 August 2021 (day 2): Tainai to Kariwa 14 August 2021 (day 3): Kamo to Tsunan 15 August 2021 (day 4): Niigata to Izumozaki
16 August 2021 (day 5): Sanjō to Niigata
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Toyama | 14 August 2021 (day 3): Toyama to Asahi 15 August 2021 (day 4): Takaoka to Toyama
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Ishikawa | ||
Fukui | 14 August 2021 (day 3): Echizen 16 August 2021 (day 5): rest of Fukui Prefecture | |
Yamanashi | 12 August 2021 (day 1): Kōfu to Tabayama 13 August 2021 (day 2): Saku 16 August 2021 (day 5): Kōfu | |
Nagano | 12 August 2021 (day 1): Nagano to Iida 13 August 2021 (day 2): Saku 14 August 2021 (day 3): Kiso 16 August 2021 (day 5): Nagano | |
Gifu | 13 August 2021 (day 2): Gifu to Yaotsu 14 August 2021 (day 3): Nakatsugawa 14 August 2021 (day 3): Gifu | |
Aichi | 12 August 2021 (day 1): Ichinomiya to Taketoyo 14 August 2021 (day 3): Toyohashi to Tobishima | |
Mie | 12 August 2021 (day 1): Inabe to Mihama | |
Shiga | 14 August 2021 (day 3): Moriyama 15 August 2021 (day 4): Higashiōmi | |
Kyoto | 12 August 2021 (day 1): Nantan 13 August 2021 (day 2): Kyōtamba 15 August 2021 (day 4): Fukuchiyama to Miyazu | |
Osaka | 15 August 2021 (day 4): Osaka to Misaki 16 August 2021 (day 5): Kishiwada to Sakai ?? August 2021 (day ?): Daitō | |
Hyōgo | 12 August 2021 (day 1): Kawanishi to Minamiawaji 14 August 2021 (day 3): Kobe to Sumoto ?? August 2021 (day ?): Ashiya | |
Nara | 16 August 2021 (day 5): Ōyodo | |
Wakayama | 16 August 2021 (day 5): Tanabe | |
Tottori | 16 August 2021 (day 5): Kurayoshi | |
Shimane | 13 August 2021 (day 2): Matsue 16 August 2021 (day 5): Matsue | |
Okayama | 12 August 2021 (day 1): Ibara to Nishiawakura 13 August 2021 (day 2): Tsuyama to Kibichūō | |
Kōchi | ?? August 2021 (day ?): TBD
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Shizuoka | 17 August 2021 (day 6): Shizuoka to Hamamatsu | |
Hiroshima | 12 August 2021 (day 1): Miyoshi to Hamamatsu 13 August 2021 (day 2): Kure to Hamamatsu
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Chiba | 18 August 2021 (day 7): Chiba Prefecture
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Saitama | 19 August 2021 (Route 1; day 8): Satte to Asaka 19 August 2021 (Route 2; day 8): Hannō to Asaka
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Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and several prefectures declared state of emergency amid COVID-19 surge and in Shizuoka Prefecture's case, the 2021 Atami landslide, [10] [11] many of the public stages of the relay were truncated to be more ceremonial rather than functional such as alternative events. Participants of the relay would carry the torch for about 30 meters before passing the flame to another participant rather than carrying it for long stretches.
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