2026 Niigata City Marathon - Oct 11

Loop road marathon, stadium start and finish marathon course in Niigata with 40m elevation gain. A genuinely flat, fast course (only about 10-30 m of total elevation change) winding through central Niigata past the historic Bandai Bridge, along both banks of the Shinano River and out toward the Sea of Japan, with brief rises only at bridges and the Niigata Minato undersea tunnel