The Tokyo Olympic torch relay will begin in Aichi Prefecture on the 5th, and will be the first government-designated city to visit Nagoya.
The executive committee of Aichi Prefecture and others are calling for the roadside spectators not to be crowded as a countermeasure against the infection of the new coronavirus.
The Tokyo Olympic torch relay, which started in Fukushima Prefecture on the 25th of last month, will be handed over from Gifu Prefecture to Aichi Prefecture, and will travel to 15 cities in the prefecture in two days, the 5th and 6th.
On the 5th, we started in Seto City, a city of pottery, and entered Nagoya City, an ordinance-designated city for the first time in this holy fire relay. I will go around.
After that, after passing through Inuyama Castle, a national treasure of Inuyama City, we will finally return to Nagoya City and aim for Nagoya Castle.
Hiroshi Amano, a professor at Nagoya University who won the Nobel Prize in Physics, and Seigo Narazaki, a former Japan national football team who played an active role as a goalkeeper for the Nagoya Grampus, will connect the holy fire.
Since infections of the new coronavirus are still being confirmed in Aichi Prefecture, the executive committee of Aichi Prefecture and others are calling for support through live broadcasting via the Internet so that the spectators along the road will not be crowded as a countermeasure against infection.