Venues Outside the Tokyo Area

32. Tsurigasaki Beach Surfing Venue

Olympics: Surfing

Access: Around 60 minutes on a JR Keiyō or Sotobō Line limited express train from Tokyo Station to Kazusa-Ichinomiya Station. Around 90 minutes by car from central Tokyo.

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33. Enoshima Yacht Harbor

Olympics: Sailing

  • Access: Around 60 minutes on an Odakyū Line Romancecar limited express train from Shinjuku Station to Katase-Enoshima Station. Around 70 minutes from Tokyo Station to Enoshima Station changing from the Tōkaidō Line to the Enoshima Electric Railway at Fujisawa Station.
Enoshima Yacht Harbor (© Tokyo 2020)

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34. Izu Velodrome

Olympics: Cycling (track)
Paralympics: Cycling (track)

  • Includes 250-meter indoor cycling track with a wooden surface, which meets the standards of Union Cycliste Internationale, the world governing body for cycling.
  • Access: By taxi from Usami Station, which is around 90 minutes from Tokyo Station, changing from the Tōkaidō Shinkansen Line to the Itō Line at Atami Station.
Inside Izu Velodrome (© Tokyo 2020)

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35. Izu Mountain Bike Course

Olympics: Cycling (mountain bike)

  • Access: By taxi from Usami Station, which is around 90 minutes from Tokyo Station, changing from the Tōkaidō Shinkansen Line to the Itō Line at Atami Station.

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36. Sapporo Dome

Olympics: Soccer

  • Features a sliding grass pitch, which allows the stadium to be used for soccer. It is retracted for baseball games, which use the artificial turf underneath.
  • Access: On foot from Fukuzumi Station on the Sapporo Municipal Subway’s Tōhō Line.

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37. Miyagi Stadium

Olympics: Soccer
  • Access: When there are major events, shuttle buses carry passengers from Sendai Station (JR) and Izumi-Chūō Station on the Sendai Subway Nanboku Line.
(Originally published in Japanese on January 24, 2017. Banner image: Bird’s eye view of Olympic Stadium from the southeast. Design Works and Construction Works of Taisei Corporation, Azusa Sekkei Co., Ltd. and Kengo Kuma and Associates JV/Courtesy of JSC.)