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Downhill from km 5 to km 9, a slow rise of 17 m to km 16, then another slow rise of 15 m home from km 32.
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The baseball dome the race starts and finishes at.
Photo: ARICA13, CC BY 4.0
km 24.1mile 15
The temple south-west of the Wakamiya Odori loop, a few hundred metres off the course.
Photo: Hyppolyte de Saint-Rambert, CC BY 4.0
km 27.5mile 17.1
The castle keep, seen from Otsu-dori and Sotobori-dori on the northern leg, which the course runs twice.
Photo: Emran Kassim, CC BY 2.0
km 34.9mile 21.7
City Hall, an Important Cultural Property, on the northern leg beside Otsu-dori.
Photo: Evelyn-rose, CC0
km 35mile 21.7
The prefectural office next to City Hall, also an Important Cultural Property.
Photo: Evelyn-rose, CC0
km 37.6mile 23.4
Photo: Kansai explorer, CC BY 3.0
km 42.2mile 26.2
The finish is back at the dome, as the start.
Height drawn many times taller than life. Heights: Fundamental Geospatial Data digital elevation model.
Dashed: bridge upright dashes: cut-offs
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The start inside Vantelin Dome is the highest point of the course, at 18.5 m. The road then falls to 0.9 m at km 9.2, which is the lowest point, 17.6 m below the start. The high points after that are small: 16 m around km 15 and 16 m again around km 40.
The 51.9 m of climbing is spread over a course that never has a real hill. The finish, back at the dome, is at 18.2 m, so the last kilometres rise gently to meet the start. A bridge or underpass can be a few metres steeper than these figures.
Measured
The organiser describes the start and finish as “inside the dome”, and gives the 2027 start as “Sunday, March 14, 2027, starting at 9:10 JST”. The time limit is 7 hours, “based on the starting gun”, and its home page puts the 2026 finish rate at 96.6%.
Along the way the organiser sets tentative course closure times. The first is 9:40 at the start line, and the last checkpoint is the dome’s parking entrance at 41.7 km, closing at 16:05, five minutes before the finish line closes at 16:10. Runners who fall far behind the pace can be stopped at any point, not only at those checkpoints.
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On its course page the organiser lists the highlights by distance, and most come in pairs. “Twice during the race, just after the 19 km and 36 km marks, the course runs along Sakura-dori” with the Chubu Electric Power MIRAI TOWER beside it.
Between 27 km and 28 km, and again between 33 km and 34 km, runners pass the Aichi Prefectural Government Office and Nagoya City Hall, both Important Cultural Properties of Japan, and then the IG Arena, completed in 2025. Nagoya Castle “comes into view” at around the 26 km mark, and the organiser names the 35 km mark on the way back as the place for a photograph with the castle behind you.
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A women-only marathon through central Nagoya, starting and finishing inside Vantelin Dome, one of the largest fields of any women's marathon anywhere.
The Nagoya Women's Marathon is a loop of 42.2 km with 51.9 m of climbing. Its lowest point is 1 m and its highest 18 m above sea level. Next race: Sunday 14 March 2027, starting at 09:10.
Bib pickup at Vantelin Dome Nagoya
12:0012:00 PM–20:308:30 PM
10:0010:00 AM–19:307:30 PM
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until 16:104:10 PM
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Times as published by the organiser, in Nagoya time, checked .
The forecast for Sunday
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Entry through the organiser
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Barcelona, Spain
Sun 14 Mar 202742.2 kmClimb 59 m
Climb summed after smoothing the heights over 1 km. The edge is this course's height profile on one scale for every race: 250 m above its lowest point fills it. Photo: Sagrada Família, by Canaan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Imagery: Google Earth3:56 filmEntry openRome, Italy
Sun 14 Mar 202742.2 kmClimb 87 m
Climb summed after smoothing the heights over 1 km. The edge is this course's height profile on one scale for every race: 250 m above its lowest point fills it.
Imagery: Google Earth4:01 filmTokyo, Japan
Sun 7 Mar 202742.2 kmClimb 16 m
Climb summed after smoothing the heights over 1 km. The edge is this course's height profile on one scale for every race: 250 m above its lowest point fills it.
Seoul, South Korea
Sun 21 Mar 202742.2 kmClimb 59 m
Climb summed after smoothing the heights over 1 km. The edge is this course's height profile on one scale for every race: 250 m above its lowest point fills it. Photo: Gyeongbokgung, by Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Doha, Qatar
Fri 15 Jan 202742.2 kmClimb 50 m
Climb summed after smoothing the heights over 1 km. The edge is this course's height profile on one scale for every race: 250 m above its lowest point fills it. Photo: Doha, by Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Krakow, Poland
Sun 18 Apr 202742.2 kmClimb 55 m
Climb summed after smoothing the heights over 1 km. The edge is this course's height profile on one scale for every race: 250 m above its lowest point fills it. Photo: Main Square, by Ingo Mehling, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Christchurch, New Zealand
Sun 18 Apr 202742.2 kmClimb 49 m
Climb summed after smoothing the heights over 1 km. The edge is this course's height profile on one scale for every race: 250 m above its lowest point fills it. Photo: Christchurch Botanic Gardens, by Szilas, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.Not entirely. It has 51.9 m of climbing over 42.2 km. The highest point is 18 m above the lowest.
Sunday 14 March 2027. The start is at 09:10.
Entry is through the organiser. Entry fee: JP¥19,000 (for the 2027 race). Entry details on the organiser’s site
Runners have 7 hours to finish. The finish closes at 16:10.
Start: Vantelin Dome Nagoya.
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