The Tokyo Olympic Torch Relay will enter Kansai on the 9th and will travel around Wakayama Prefecture in a two-day schedule.
The prefectural executive committee is also calling for live broadcasts on the Internet to avoid crowding the roadside spectators.
The Tokyo Olympic torch relay, which started in Fukushima Prefecture on the 25th of last month, will be taken over by Wakayama Prefecture, which is the eighth of the whole, and will travel to 14 cities and towns in the prefecture in two days on the 9th and 10th.
On the 9th, we will depart from Shingu City in the southern part of the prefecture at 9 am, and will pass through Kumano Kodo in Nachikatsuura Town, which is registered as a World Heritage Site, Kushimoto Town in the southernmost part of Honshu, and Shirahama Town, one of the leading tourist destinations in Kansai. Aim for the city.
On the 9th, about 90 runners, including Rie Tanaka, the representative of the London Olympics for gymnastics girls, will connect the torch.
In Wakayama Prefecture, the number of newly infected people with the new coronavirus reached 38, the highest number ever, on the 7th, and the infection is spreading. We are also calling for support through live broadcasts of.