2026 Hokkaido Marathon - Aug 30

Loop marathon course in Sapporo with 80m elevation gain. A flat, fast loop that starts and finishes at Odori Nishi 4-chome on Sapporo's Ekimae-dori Avenue. Net elevation change is only about 10 metres, with one gentle early rise (roughly 30 metres) before a long downhill toward 10 km, then almost entirely flat. The route runs through Sapporo's tree-lined avenues and out along the Shindo and riverside sections, where shade is intermittent — the difficulty is the August heat, not the terrain