FAIRY TRAIL Short 20K 2026
Also known as: Takashima Kutsuki
The short race of FAIRY TRAIL in the Kutsuki forests of Takashima, Shiga. Runners take a bus from the venue to the start and run one way back to Green Park Omoide no Mori, mostly on trail through Kutsuki's deep woods.
1,070 m of climbing over 20 km (54 m per km). In 2026, 99% of starters finished. The median finish was about 4 h.
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- Date
- Sat, 13 Jun 2026
- Start
- 11:30
- Location
- Shiga, Japan
- Distance
- 20 km
- Elevation gain
- 1,070 m
- Time limit
- 7h 30m
- ITRA
- H
- Official website
- www.fairy-trail.com/raceinfo
Elevation profile
No elevation data yet.
Aid stations and cutoffs
| # | Distance | Aid station | Segment | Cutoff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 km | Aid 1第5エイド 地蔵峠 | 9 km | — |
| 2 | 16 km | Aid 2第6エイド 朽木スキー場 | 7 km | Day 1 18:307h |
| F | 20 km | FinishFINISH グリーンパーク想い出の森 | 4 km | Day 1 19:007h 30m |
The small figure under each cutoff is the time from the start. Day 1 is the day of the start.
2026 results
369 starters, 367 finishers (99.5% finish rate). Finish times of those who finished:
- Fastest
- 2h 4m
- Top 10%
- 2h 53m
- Top 25%
- 3h 21m
- Median
- 3h 49m
- Top 75%
- 4h 25m
- Top 90%
- 4h 53m
- Last finisher
- 6h 17m
"Top 25%" means one in four finishers had crossed the line by this time.
Years with a different course or different cutoffs are not directly comparable.
Practice courses
See the course on the Runnable map ↗
Runnable has practice courses on this race's trails, split into sections to run and sections to walk (pages in Japanese).
- Runnable practice course (17.2 km)
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