For participants of the Walking Challenge 2025

2025-11-18 update

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Thank you for joining the Walking Challenge 2025.
Your goal is 8,000 steps per day!
Being moving in a way that suits you—whether it's dedicated walks or quick strides during spare moments.

【Step Count Method】

There are two ways to enter your step count.

For Kenko Nikki App Users: Your step-count data will be received from the Kenko Nikki App.
First, you need to set up the connection between your Kenko Nikki and the Walking Challenge My Page. Please refer to this page.
※Download the “ Kenko Nikki” app here. [iOS Ver.] [Android Ver.]

For Other Smartphone App or Pedometer Users: You must manually enter your step-count data into “My Page” as needed.
※ To participate in the lottery for prizes, submission of a picture that shows your step count is also required.

【FAQ】

Please refer to this page.

【Special Mission】　Yutas's Old Tokaido Travel Diary

This year, Yutas (Komaba Campus character from the College of Arts and Sciences) will join the walking challenge with us.
Having Leaft Komaba Campus, Yutas will depart from Nihonbashi on the Old Tokaido Road and head west.

・Assuming each step is 70cm,
・walking 8,000 steps/day for 30 days covers 168km.
・8,000 steps × 70cm × 30 days = 168km

Walking 168km along the Old Tokaido from Nihonbashi roughly reaches Ejiri-juku (present-day Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture).

***What is the Old Tōkaidō? ***

The Tōkaidō (東海道 / とうかいどう) is one of the few important roads in Japan whose names have been heard outside the country (mostly in connection with the “Tōkaidō” Line of the bullet-train network (Shinkansen / 新幹線) of Japan Railways, which connects the cities of Tōkyō and Ōsaka). In general, however, this refers to the historic highway that, in the Edo period (江戸時代 / えどじだい) (1603-1867), connected the old imperial city of Kyōto (京都 / きょうと) with the headquarters of the Tokugawa Shōgunate (徳川幕府 / とくがわばくふ) in Edo (江戸 / えど). The street was much-sung about – and certainly even more often the subject of artistic contemplation (quite a few will be familiar with the colorful woodblock prints of the “53 Stations of Tōkaidō” (東海道五十三次 / とうかいどうごじゅうさんつぎ).

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
Yutas advances is based on the average steps per day of all the University of Tokyo participants × 70cm × number of days.
Let's all walk hard so Yutas can reach his goal of Ejiri-juku!
Check here for Yutas's Old Tōkaidō Challenge progress, the current average steps per day of the University of Tokyo participants, and the ranking among universities nationwide in Japan.