Triumph in Tokyo

2025 TRIUMPH IN TOKYO

Tokyo at night with Mt. Fuji in the background TOKYO A Jamaican’s Guide to MICHAEL A. GRANT

Completed in 2019, Japan’s new National Stadium was completed in time for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

NATIONAL STADIUM Properly called Kokuritsu Kyōgijō , this main venue for the twentieth World Athletics Championships features modern facilities and a capacity of around 68,000 spectators. To reduce its environmental impact, the stadium’s structure uses local Japanese wood as modular construction elements. The stadium benefits from special ventilation, transparent solar panels and rainwater collected in underground cisterns for irrigation. The breathtaking venue stands on the grounds of the original National Stadium, used for the 1958 Asian Games and the 1964 Olympics (the first ever in Asia!). That old, legendary stadium was Fun ! Fact

Team Jamaica achieved a very significant nine medals: 4 gold, 1 silver and 4 bronze. HIGH-TECH TRANSPORTATION Tokyo’s public transportation system is one of the best in the world – clean, fast, and incredibly punctual. You can walk to Japan National Stadium in a minute from Kokuritsu Kyogijo Station on the Toei Oedo Subway line or in five minutes from Sendagaya Station on the Chuo Sobu line. • JR East Lines: Includes the famous Yamanote Line, a loop connecting major neighborhoods. • Tokyo Metro & Toei Subway covers most of central Tokyo. • Trains are color coded and numbered, making navigation simple even without Japanese.

Kokuritsu-kyogijo train Station is five minutes’ walk from the stadium

torn down in 2015, making way for the new building designed to embody strength, simplicity, and grace – and now, the new building continues that legacy, with a fresh twist unveiled at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics Games, where