The Tokyo Olympic Torch Relay will visit nine World Heritage Sites, including Todaiji Temple and Horyuji Temple, on the 12th, the second day in Nara Prefecture.
The Nara Prefecture Executive Committee continues to call for roadside tours not to be crowded as a countermeasure against the infection of the new coronavirus.
On the 12th of the second day, the Holy Fire Relay in Nara Prefecture will visit nine world heritage sites, including Kinpusenji Temple in Yoshino Town and Horyuji Temple in Ikaruga Town, and the Great Buddha Hall at Todaiji Temple in Goal.
On the 12th, Nara-born film director Naomi Kawase, who won the Grand Prix of the Cannes International Film Festival, and 109-year-old Shigeko Kagawa will join the holy fire as runners.
As the number of people infected with the new coronavirus is increasing in Nara Prefecture, the prefecture's executive committee is calling for a tour to avoid crowding along the roadside near home as much as possible as an infection countermeasure, or to watch it via the Internet. I will.