For participants of the Walking Challenge 2025

2025-12-09 update

General

To everyone who participated in the Walking Challenge 2025.

Thank you for joining the Walking Challenge 2025.

How was your walking challenge?

This year's Walking Challenge saw participation from a total of 690 individuals (University of Tokyo).

The University of Tokyo's average step is 7196 steps/day.

After tallying the step counts, we will hold a lottery shortly to determine the TOP 200 Prizes and Lucky Prizes.

Winners will be notified via email sent BCC to their registered email address at a later date.

For details, please check the page below.

ウォーキングチャレンジ2025｜ 999_300_東京大学の参加者向けページ

【Special Mission】　Yutas's Old Tokaido Travel Diary

This year, Yutas (Komaba Campus character from the College of Arts and Sciences) have joined 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.
Do you think Yutas was able to reach his goal, Ejiri-juku?
Check here for Yutas's Old Tōkaidō Challenge progress, the average steps per day of the University of Tokyo participants, and the ranking among universities nationwide in Japan.