The Nagoya City Marathon has become one of the city's popular events that attracts more than 15000 runners every year, with the help of marathon boom in recent years.

Three courses are set for this event. Half marathon runners start from Nagoya Dome and finish at Shirakawa Park while quarter marathon runners finish at Mizuho Stadium. And a special course is prepared within Nagoya Dome site for the challenge-run.

This event is one of the representative projects originated by JCI Nagoya, which originally had been held as a November regular meeting project.