The Tokyo Olympic Torch Relay entered Aichi Prefecture on the 5th and started the pottery town of Seto City.
The Tokyo Olympic torch relay, which started in Fukushima Prefecture on the 25th of last month, will be handed over to Aichi Prefecture as the sixth overall from Gifu Prefecture, and will travel to 15 cities in the prefecture in two days, the 5th and 6th.
On the 5th, the relay started at Fukagawa Shrine in Seto City with the torch of Karasaburo Kato, the first runner in the prefecture and a local potter.
Mr. Kato ran while waving to the people who gathered along the road under the clear sky.
Mr. Kato, who finished running, said, "I'm happy and proud to be able to run as a representative of Seto. I'm afraid of Corona, but I ran while praying that I would like to hold the Tokyo Olympics somehow."
A woman who saw the torch relay with her one-year-old son said, "I sometimes feel depressed in the corona, but when I saw the torch, I was moved to tears."
After that, the torch was the first to enter the government-designated city of Nagoya in this relay, and around Atsuta Jingu, three runners connected the torch in a solemn atmosphere.
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 the infection of the new coronavirus.
On the afternoon of the 5th, after passing through Inuyama Castle, a national treasure of Inuyama City, we will finally return to Nagoya City and aim for Nagoya Castle.