Start side
Keio Plaza Hotel Tokyo
The hotel's own page lists 2-2-1 Nishi-Shinjuku and Toei Oedo Tochomae Station.
Consider: The finish is Gyoko-dori at Tokyo Station. This is a start hotel.
Tokyo runs on March 7, 2027, from the Metropolitan Government Building to Gyoko-dori at Tokyo Station. General entry closed in 2026. Check your result before you pay for a room. International entry on the entry page is USD 230, and baggage check is another USD 12. The start and the finish are different neighbourhoods, so the hotel has to pick one of them.
Date, start, finish and the place list are from the Tokyo Marathon 2027 outline, opened 4 November 2026. There is no course atlas because that page did not publish a GPX or an elevation profile.
Why we'd pick it
- The 60 m climbing estimate is useful for planning, not a verified pacing number.
- The ballot is closed for this edition.
- A non-racing partner gets a real weekend here — 5/5.
- Race day usually sits 3–12.1°C, about 39% chance of rain.
The course
The 2027 outline runs from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building through Suidobashi, Ueno-hirokoji, Kanda, Nihombashi, Asakusa Kaminarimon, Ryogoku, Monzen-nakacho, Ginza, Tamachi and Hibiya, and finishes on Gyoko-dori in front of Tokyo Station. Marathon start is 9:10am, cutoff 7 hours. No GPX or elevation table was on that page, so this record has landmark pins only.
Difficulty and PR scores
Difficulty is the course and the conditions. The PR score is a separate read on a fast clock. Missing inputs are dropped and the other weights are rescaled. The method, with the weights.
- Difficulty
- 19 / 100
- PR / BQ friendliness
- Not scored
Weight used: 70%. Need 40% before we print a number.
Weight used: 40%. Need 45% before we print a number.
Weather median for 2011–2025, race date ±7 days, 225 days, at Start / Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building. Grid elevation 40 m.
No cited BQ rate for this race.
| Input | 0–100 | What went in |
|---|---|---|
| G Gain | — | No trusted gain per km. Uncertain stored gain is not used. |
| A Altitude | 0 | 40 m. 0 below 300 m, 100 at 2000 m. Source: open-meteo-grid. |
| H Heat | 30 | High 12.1°C, dew point 1.6°C. The hotter of the two bands is used. |
| W Wind | 40 | 4.04 m/s median. Bands: under 3 → 15, under 5 → 40, under 8 → 70, else 100. |
| C Cutoff | 0 | 420 min. A 5:00 marathon maps to 100 and a 7:00 marathon maps to 0, scaled by distance. |
| S Surface | 15 | road. Road 15, mixed 45, gravel 70, trail 90. |
| T Cool temps | 70 | 100 minus heat (30). |
| B BQ evidence | — | No cited BQ rate. |
| E Execution | 50 | Cutoff 420 min on 42.2 km. Pacers and a course certificate are not in this record, so they add nothing. |
