Tokyo Marathon 2025
Run for Education
Information in Japanese
Click to go to Tokyo Marathon Charity page (registration info to be updated in 2024 June)
Run the 2025 Tokyo Marathon for Room to Read and transform children’s lives through education!
Your fundraising gift is a powerful means to provide the skills and confidence young students need and build brighter futures for themselves, their families, and their communities. One the most competitive marathons to get into, we are thrilled to bring you this opportunity to run with us and secure children’s futures.
Our Goal
Supporting 8,000 young learners and girls living in low-income communities, access the gift of education.
Application Procedures & Schedule
Detailed Process will be announced in June 2024.
*Please refer to Official Website “RUN with HEART” Tokyo Marathon 2025 Charity Page
for detailed process, eligibilities, and more.
【Application Period】
From the end of June 2024 for a limitted time. Detailed information will be updated in June.
【How to Apply】
Select "Room to Read Japan" as the recipient of your donation on the following links:
✓Overseas Residents - Click here (English)
✓Japan Residents - Click here (Japanese)
*Website will be updated when application period starts.
【Quota】
Please contact jp.marathon@roomtoread.org for details.
*Selection is made based on a pledged donation amount and content of the "Thoughts on Charity & Messages" entered at the time of application.
【Donation amount】
Please contact jp.marathon@roomtoread.org for details.
*In addition to the donation, around $160 registration fee will be charged for international runners.
✓ Multiple currencies accepted.
Donate in AUD, CAD, CHF, EUR, GBP, HKD, USD, and JPY. Tax benefits are available in many countries. Check here.
✓ Corporate matches accepted.
Check here and refer "Matching Gifts and Workplace Giving".
✓Fundraising platform provided.
Receive support from your network!
Our Fundraising Target
Your fundraising goals will make significan difference:
We have much lower slots than expected, but we are sticking with our originally set goal of securing education for 8,000 children and girls through Tokyo Marathon 2025!
$3,650: Support 10 girls with Girls Education Program (GEP) for an entire year
$4,000: Support 80 children with literacy education for an entire year
$7,300: Support 20 girls to with Girls Education Program (GEP) for an entire year
$10,000: Provide 80 children and girls with literacy & life skill lessons for an entire year
$15,000: Support a school's library and provide education to hundreds of children and girls
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
General Inquiry
Room to Read Japan（jp.marathon@roomtoread.org）
TMF Official Information (Regularly updated)
✓Official Website “RUN with HEART” Tokyo Marathon 2025 Charity Page
✓Eligibility for participants as a Charity runner
Benefits
We are grateful for supporters like you, who will be joining us as a runner. Here are a few ways we would like to show our appreciation:
- Run with top runners! Pre-race Emperor's Palace Run!
- Room to Read special T-shirt
- Cheerful support along the course!
- Facebook group page for our Room to Read charity runner community
Imperial Palace Run organized by Deloitte Running Team
Total 30 volunteers gathered and supported during the event
Testimonials from charity runners from the Tokyo Marathon 2023
◆Dr. Lynn Clayton-Prince (USA)
"I had the pleasure and opportunity to participate in the Tokyo Marathon 2023 with the help of Room to Read. Room to Read provided me with the opportunity to travel to Japan, and I was able to give back with a donation. My donation provided reading resources for children and helped to create lifelong learners. I was impressed with knowing what my contribution was going towards. I would encourage others to support this great organization in the future."
◆ Mr. Bhup Rwal (USA)
"I choose to run for Room to Read Japan because of their goal of helping kids who are in need to advance their dreams of education worldwide. The best charity goals that fit my own vision and preferences. They use 100% of donations towards supporting their goal of facilitating kids to read and learn. The charity team was wonderful to help promptly in all steps and answered my questions."
◆ Mr. Kyoichiro Suzuki and Mrs. Naoko Suzuki (Japan)
"We fully support Room to Read's focus on children's education and their commitment to efficient and waste-free initiatives. Over the past 13 years, we have been proud to support and walk alongside them. Please consider running as a charity runner, envisioning the resilient determination of children as they move forward."
For more comments and runners' photos from Tokyo Marathon 2024, please refer to the following pages:
About Room to Read
Founded in 2000 on the belief that World Change Starts with Educated Children®, Room to Read is creating a world free from illiteracy and gender inequality. We are achieving this goal by helping children in historically low-income communities develop literacy skills and a habit of reading, and by supporting girls as they build skills to succeed in school and negotiate key life decisions. We collaborate with governments and other partner organizations to deliver positive outcomes for children at scale. Room to Read has benefited more than 39 million children and has worked in 24 countries and in more than 192,000 communities, with additional support through remote solutions that facilitate learning beyond the classroom. Room to Read aims to reach 40 million children by 2025. Learn more at www.roomtoread.org
Learn more about Room to Read’s Literacy Program and Girl's Education Program
Literacy Program Fact Sheet
Our approach not only works for all children — it works at scale. By building literacy skills alongside reading habits, and by engaging governments and other NGOs to use this highly effective methodology, we are cementing the foundation for systemic change in education and paving an inclusive path
toward ending global illiteracy.
Learn more about Room to Read’s Literacy Program
Girl's Education Program Fact Sheet
Right now, approximately 129 million girls around the world are not in school. When you educate a girl, everything changes. Help Room to Read make change possible by benefiting more girls than ever before this year with our Girls’ Education Program.
Learn more about Room to Read’s Girl's Education Program
