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Tour of Japan

Japanese multi-day road cycling race

Summary

Japanese multi-day road cycling race

Field	Value
name	Tour of Japan
date	May
region	Japan
english	Tour of Japan
localnames	ツアー・オブ・ジャパン
discipline	Road
competition	UCI Asia Tour 2.2
type	Stage race
organiser	Cycle Month Promotion Council
director	Osamu Kurimura
first
number	27 (as of 2025)
firstwinner	Jean-Philippe Duracka
mostwins	Fortunato Baliani
Samad Pourseyedi
Óscar Pujol
Nathan Earle
(2 wins)
mostrecent	Alessandro Fancellu

Samad Pourseyedi Óscar Pujol

Nathan Earle (2 wins)

The Tour of Japan is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Japan since 1996 as part of the UCI Asia Tour. It is sanctioned by the International Cycling Union (UCI) as a 2.2 category race.

History

Tour of Japan was formed as the successor of the Kokusai Cycle Road Race which began in 1982. In 1996, Tour of Japan began as a UCI category 2-5 stage race, and became category 2–4 in 1997. It was downgraded to category 2–5 in 2002.

As the UCI race system was reformed in 2005, it was included in the UCI Asia Tour as a category 2.2 event. It became a category 2.1 event in 2013.

The race has only been cancelled three times in its history. The 2003 edition was canceled for concern over the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak, and the 2011 edition was canceled because of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. The 2020 edition was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 2021 edition was held as a class 2.2 event and a three-day stage race with all domestic teams, exempted by the UCI from the mandatory invitation of foreign teams under Japan's international travel restrictions. The 2022 edition was held as a four-stages, class 2.2 event. It restored the eight-stages class 2.1 form in 2023. The 2024 edition was held as the eight-stages, class 2.2 event.

Past winners

General classification

Notes

References

link. Goro. Murayama. Bicycle Culture Center. (March 2013)
"2001 6th Tour of Japan". Tour of Japan Organizing Committee.
link. (2017-04-09)

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