{"id":2449,"date":"2009-02-27T13:02:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T04:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2009-02-27T13:02:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T04:02:41","slug":"run-virtually-in-tokyo-if-you-lost-the-draw-to-attend-the-real-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/run-virtually-in-tokyo-if-you-lost-the-draw-to-attend-the-real-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Run Virtually In Tokyo If You Lost The Draw To Attend The Real Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2500\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/tokyomarathon2009_logo.jpg\" alt=\"tokyomarathon2009_logo\" width=\"131\" height=\"53\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2501\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/otsuka_logo.gif\" alt=\"otsuka_logo\" width=\"231\" height=\"51\" \/><br \/>\nThis year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokyo42195.org\/2009\/index_en.html\">Tokyo Marathon<\/a> is scheduled to be held on March 22nd and marks its 3rd anniversary.\u00a0The expected number of participating runners continues to increase every year. More than 250,000 people entered this year, but only 35,000 were lucky enough to win the draw to run. That means almost 85% of all the applicants will not be able to run that day.<br \/>\nFor those who didn&#8217;t get the chance to be a part of this remarkable sporting event, an associated <a href=\"http:\/\/amino-marathon.jp\/tokyo2009\/sp\/\">&#8220;VIRTUAL&#8221; game site<\/a> has been launched by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.otsuka-global.com\/\">Otsuka Pharmaceutical<\/a>, which is famous for manufacturing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocarisweat.com.ph\/\">Pocari soft drink<\/a>. Otsuka is one of the sponsors for this year&#8217;s &#8220;REAL&#8221; event.<br \/>\nYou may create your own athletic avatar from a selection of 69 faces, 74 bodies and various patterns of sportswear. Your avatar can run the course of the Tokyo Marathon, during which you can enjoy looking at popular sightseeing spots in the city, such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokyotower.co.jp\/english\/\">Tokyo Tower<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senso-ji.jp\/guide\/kaminari_e.html\">Kaminarimon<\/a> gate. The website has some SNS-related features and allows you to exchange yells with other runners as well.<br \/>\nHow about visiting Tokyo and running around the city virtually without paying any travel expenses in this economic situation in which the Japanese Yen is strong compared to other currencies?<br \/>\nNo additional software is required as the site is made with Flash.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2448\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/virtualtokyomarathon.jpg\" alt=\"Virtual Tokyo Marathon\" width=\"468\" height=\"420\" \/><br \/>\n(Proofread by: Sean O&#8217;Hagan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Tokyo Marathon is scheduled to be held on March 22nd and marks its 3rd anniversary.\u00a0The expected number of participating runners continues to increase every year. More than 250,000 people entered this year, but only 35,000 were lucky enough to win the draw to run. That means almost 85% of all the applicants will&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/run-virtually-in-tokyo-if-you-lost-the-draw-to-attend-the-real-marathon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Run Virtually In Tokyo If You Lost The Draw To Attend The Real Marathon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,8,17,23],"tags":[2779,3728],"class_list":["post-2449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular-phone","category-community","category-japan","category-new-service","tag-otsuka-pharmaceutical","tag-tokyo-marathon","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}