One of the three great festivals of Edo (now Tokyo) features portable shrines (mikoshi) that are paraded in honour of the 3 deities of the shrine. The three main temple mikoshi will not be paraded this year but the 44 town (choukai) mikoshi will be.

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Asakusa Jinja Shrine

URL:http://www.asakusajinja.jp/index_2.html

Tokyo's large-scale city marathon kick off in style when thousands of runners-including some of the top names in the sport-compete in the race in March 2009. The road course takes the athletes past such well-known city landmarks as the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, Tokyo Tower, Ginza, Tsukiji and finishes at Tokyo Big Sight in Ariake. With thousands of spectators lining the route, the Tokyo Marathon is poised to become a racing institution on the scale of Boston, New York or Berlin.

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JAAF (Japan Association of Athletics Federations), Tokyo Metropolitan Government

URL:http://www.tokyo42195.org/

The world's largest anime exhibition is held every spring at Tokyo Big Sight. The exhibition features booth exhibits by anime-related companies, events such as spectacular stage performances and theater movie showings, and the "Tokyo Anime Awards" in which outstanding anime works are presented with awards.

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Tokyo International Anime Fair Executive Committee

URL:http://www.tokyoanime.jp/en/index.php