The Tokyo Olympic Torch Relay will be held in Saitama Prefecture from the 6th to the 3rd.
In Saitama City and Kawaguchi City, where "Priority Measures to Prevent Spread" are applied, the torch relay on public roads will be canceled, but relays and events will be held in other sections.
The Tokyo Olympic torch will be handed over from Ibaraki prefecture to Saitama prefecture, which is the 46th in Japan, and about 270 runners will connect the torch in 40 cities and towns in the prefecture for 3 days from the 6th to the 8th.
The first day, the 6th, was scheduled to start in Kawaguchi City, but due to the application of "priority measures such as prevention of spread", the torch relay on public roads was canceled in Kawaguchi City.
Instead, a "departure commemorative ceremony" will be held at Aokicho Park in the city where the replica of the torch stand is located, which was set up at the former National Stadium.
After that, relays on public roads began in Warabi City, and visited 11 cities and towns in Toda City, Wako City, Asaka City, Niiza City, Hidaka City, Sayama City, Fujimi City, Miyoshi Town, Fujimino City, and Tokorozawa City. I will.
Of these, in Hidaka City, runners carry the torch on horseback on some routes, and at the last Tokorozawa Aviation Museum in front of the lawn plaza, a "celebration" is held.
The organizing committee of the Games and the executive committee of the prefecture are calling for the torch relay to be viewed on the Internet as a countermeasure against infection.