KYOTO GREAT ROUND 30K 2026
Also known as: KGR160K · KGR 160K · KGR30K · KGR 30K · KGR INTRO · KYOTO GREAT ROUND 30km
KYOTO GREAT ROUND is a year-end long-trail series built on the Kyoto Isshu Trail, linking the ridges of Higashiyama, Kitayama and Nishiyama. Courses are unmarked: runners navigate with the official GPX. The 30K is the introductory category, running one way from the Yodo River bank in Oyamazaki to Nagisa Park in Otsu. It is short, but the trails are still unmarked, which makes it a first taste of a self-navigated race.
The course tops out at 589 m (low point 8 m). There are 2 big climbs: 462 m around 18–21 km; 316 m around 23–25 km. About 60% of the distance is gentle (under 5% grade), so there is a lot of running. In 2025, 76% of starters finished. The median finish was about 5 h.
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- Date
- Wed, 30 Dec 2026
- Start
- 09:00
- Location
- Kyoto, Japan
- Distance
- 30 km
- Elevation gain
- 1,000 m
- Time limit
- 6h
- ITRA
- H
- Official website
- go-trail.net/pages/kgr30k
Elevation profile
Aid stations and cutoffs
| # | Distance | Aid station | Segment | Cutoff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17.3 km | Aid 1A6 折戸公園 | 17.3 km | Day 1 12:003h |
| 2 | 22.7 km | Aid 2WS 法厳寺（牛尾観音） | 5.4 km | Day 1 13:304h 30m |
| F | 30 km | FinishFINISH なぎさ公園 | 7.3 km | Day 1 15:006h |
The small figure under each cutoff is the time from the start. Day 1 is the day of the start.
Registration
- Registration
- Wed, 1 Jul 2026 – Wed, 25 Nov 2026
- Entry
- First come, first served
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2025 results
38 starters, 29 finishers (76.3% finish rate). Finish times of those who finished:
- Fastest
- 3h 19m
- Top 10%
- 4h 11m
- Top 25%
- 4h 41m
- Median
- 5h 5m
- Top 75%
- 5h 29m
- Top 90%
- 5h 51m
- Last finisher
- 5h 55m
"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 (34.2 km)
Other races
- Amagase 160km 2027Sat, 10 Apr 2027 · Kyoto, Japan · 157.6 km
- Amagase 80km 2027Sat, 10 Apr 2027 · Kyoto, Japan · 78.8 km
- Amagase 48km (50 km race in 2026) 2027Sat, 10 Apr 2027 · Kyoto, Japan · 47.3 km
- KYOTO GREAT ROUND 70K (Night) 2026Tue, 29 Dec 2026 · Kyoto, Japan · 70 km
- BULSS 京都 (Backyard Ultra Last Samurai Standing) 2027Sat, 20 Mar 2027 · Kyoto, Japan
- HASETSUNE 30K 2026Sun, 29 Mar 2026 · Tokyo, Japan · 30.2 km
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