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Before 8 am: Women do a warm-up lap.It wasn't exactly warm, but they had wet suits. Odaiba's water is not exactly crystal-clear clean either.
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Women at the starting line for triathlon
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Starting line
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8:10 am: And they're off, taking about 30 min. to swim 1.5 km.
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Poster for Tokyo Marathon 2007 held on a cold, rainy day on Feb. 18, 2007.
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Near the 35 km mark: Time car and police car proceed ahead of the marathon leader near the Kabuki-za in Ginza.
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Police motorcycles escort Daniel Njenga, the marathon leader since 25 km (well before Asakusa).
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Daniel Njenga, a 30-year-old Kenyan who went on to win the race at 2 hr. 9 min. 45 sec. He has lived in Japan for 15 years, and speaks Japanese well. ダニエル・ジェンガ
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Turn-around point for another lap.
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TV crew
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Out of the water and racing to the bicycles.
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Far behind Daniel are these two leading Japanese runners.
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#32 is Irifune Satoshi, age 31, and #34 Sato Tomoyuki, age 26 入船敏と佐藤智之 東京マラソン
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Taking off the wet suit and getting on the bicycle.
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Irifune Satoshi and Sato Tomoyuki vie for 2nd place. (Sato succeeded.) 入船敏と佐藤智之（２位） 東京マラソン
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Tokumoto Kazuyoshi, of Hakone Ekiden fame. He was running 2nd at 25 km, but finished 5th in his first full marathon. 徳本一善（５位） 東京マラソン
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Well over a million people lined the streets to watch the marathon.
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Hayashi Masashi, finished 4th.
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Bicycle the pavement for 40 km, taking about an hour.
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Cycling for triathlon
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Wheelchair racer
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More runners start to trickle through the road in front of Kabuki-za. Niiya Hitomi is at the rear.
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Niiya Hitomi, the first woman runner I saw went on to win the women's division. I wondered where the women runners were. They were more than 20 min. behind the men to finish. 新谷仁美 東京マラソン
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Niiya Hitomi, leading woman runner and later fastest woman to finish with a time of 2 hr. 31 min. 1 sec. Age 18. 新谷仁美 東京マラソン
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Spare wheels
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More runners
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Arimori Yuko in her final marathon. She had fallen and both her legs have a bleeding cut. 有森裕子
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Arimori Yuko escorted by a few runners. 東京マラソン 有森裕子
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Arimori Yuko finished in 5th place among the women with a time of 2 hr. 52 min. 45 sec. 有森裕子
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Quite a few foreigners also in the marathon.
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Baskets for running shoes
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Legs tired, but he got up and resumed.
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Changing from bicycling to running.
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It's not the Year of the Rooster...
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Changing into running shoes.
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Whale クジラ
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One guy just stood out...
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Statue of Liberty replica
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With a pink afro wig. Or is it his real hair??
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Moo! Probably works at a dairy or former employee of a computer maker.
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Running a few laps.
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Scene in Ginza 4-chome
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Running in triathlon
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Ginza 4-chome in front of Wako
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Runners running to the right are going to Asakusa, and the runners going to the left are heading for Tokyo Big Sight.
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Akiko Sekine who later won the women's triathlon.After cycling, they ran for 10 km. About 30 min. later, this woman, Akiko Sekine won the triathlon. She was one of athletes who went to the Athens Olympics (placing 12th).
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Going to Tokyo Big Sight
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Ginza 4-chome
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Finish line
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In front of Apple Computer Store in Ginza
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Chuo-dori in Ginza
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Inside Ito-ya
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Santa Claus in Asakusa
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Men's triathlon starting line
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Runners in Asakusa
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Runners pass by Kaminarimon Gate in Asakusa
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Runners pass by Kaminarimon Gate in Asakusa 東京マラソン 浅草雷門
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Runners in Asakusa where they also held various entertainment.
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Below Ariake Station on Yurikamome Line 有明駅
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Below Ariake Station on Yurikamome Line, very close to Tokyo Big Sight (on left) 有明駅
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Below Ariake Station on Yurikamome Line 有明駅
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Below Ariake Station on Yurikamome Line 有明駅
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Hirokatsu Tayama, he wasn't the first to finish swimming, but he won the triathlon.
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Ariake Chuo-bashi Bridge, near Ariake Station
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Cheering section
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Cheering section
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One more kilometer folks!
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Under Ariake Station
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Same route as the women.
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All going to Tokyo Big Sight
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Tokyo Big Sight in sight
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Running along Tokyo Big Sight
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Right turn here
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Turning right for the finish line and posing for the photographer
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Official photographer shoots the runners
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Running shoes
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Final dash to the finish line
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42 km mark
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Current time: 5 hr. 8 min. 15 sec.
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Endless stream of runners heads for the finish.
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Grandstands (wet) near the finish line
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Finish line grandstands
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Finish line grandstands
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Finish line dead ahead
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Gimme five!
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Finish line
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Tokyo Marathon finish line
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Finish line
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The marathon course was 42.19 km long.
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Hirokatsu Tayama, winner
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Banzai pose at the finish line
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Banzai pose at the finish line
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Hi mom!
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Man from Akita
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Woman sumo wrestler
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First-aid team and a stretcher standby at the finish line
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Runners after crossing the finish line. Notice the photographers platform.
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Runners after crossing the finish line.
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A huge number of taiko drummers perform near the finish line. This taiko group is called Kodaijin. 鼓代神 Web site at www.geocities.jp/kodaijin_kdj/
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Taiko drummers near the finish line.
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Taiko drummers near the finish line.
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Check out the little girl too. She was good.
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Ganbare!
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By 3:30 pm, the stream of runners became walkers.
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The 9th Tokyo Marathon was held on Feb. 22, 2015. Costumes from the movie "Frozen" were popular this year. Took these photos at Tsukiji.
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Running doctor
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Prisoner
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Shimada hairstyle
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Funasshi
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Starbucks coffee
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Swedish runner
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Frozen
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Anpan Man
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Tigers
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Panda
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Afro hair
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Tora-san
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Egyptian pharoahs
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Pikachu
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Mexican?
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Doctor
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Sumo
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P.M. Abe
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Inoki
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Cutie at Tokyo Marathon 2015
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Kobe beef
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MJ
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Olaf
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Vending machine
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Olaf
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Yokozuna sumo wrestler
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Sunny day on Feb. 27, 2016 for the annual Tokyo Marathon. Over 36,000 runners who started at 9 am. These pictures were taken near the 30km checkpoint, near Asakusabashi Station.
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