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The starting line at Kengo Kuma’s New National Stadium

It is under 200 days until the start of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo on 24 July. Japan’s capital city will also host the Paralympic Games at the end of August.

A total of 43 venues will be used during the summer – eight new permanent venues, 10 temporary ones and 25 existing sites, six of which were used for the 1964 Summer Olympics. The permanent venues have all been completed, except for the £400m aquatics centre, which is on schedule to be ready next month. The entire venue-related budget is around $7.7bn (£5.8bn).

The opening ceremony for the Games will be held at the New National Stadium on 24 July

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Garden walkways are present around the entire structure

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The New National Stadium cost more than £1bn to build

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Wood sourced from the 47 prefectures of Japan was used to create the New National Stadium

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The 2019 Emperor's Cup final was the inaugural event at the stadium

The view from the dugout at the New National Stadium

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The New National Stadium in Tokyo hosted its inaugural sporting event on New Year’s Day as Vissel Kobe beat Kashima Antlers 2-0 in the Japan Football Association’s 99th Emperor’s Cup final.

Much of the anticipated revenue is down to ticket sales. Some 23 million people applied for the 1 million Olympic tickets available only to Japanese residents, while the demand for Paralympic tickets saw a record-breaking 3.1 million requests.

The Ariake Gymnastics Centre is a semi-temporary venue with seating for 12,000

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The Ariake Gymnastics Centre continues the wooden theme

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The underside of Ariake Gymnastics Centre

The exterior of the new Musashino Forest Sport Plaza. It will host badminton and fencing for the modern pentathlon during the Games.

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The facade of the 7,200 capacity arena which is also the venue for the wheelchair basketball at the Paralympic Games.

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15,000-seater Ariake Arena is the venue for volleyball and wheelchair basketball

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A view from the other side of the new Ariake Arena

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Handball, badminton and wheelchair rugby will be played at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium. Famous for its suspension roof, it hosted events at the Tokyo 1964 Olympic and Paralympic Games too.

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The brutalist Nippon Budokan was modelled on a Buddhist temple. Hosted judo in 1964 and will add karate to this at Tokyo 2020.

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Saitama Super Arena, designed by Dan Meis for Ellerbe Becket and opened in 2000, is one of the existing venues that will be used in the summer. It will host the basketball

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Tokyo Stadium holds 48,000 and will host events such as football and rugby

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As the average temperatures in July and August are over 30°C, the International Olympic Committee has moved the marathon route 800km north of Tokyo to Sapporo. Meanwhile, mist cooling systems in the New National Stadium will help to reduce internal temperatures by up to 10°C. The Games of the XXXII Olympiad officially end on 9 August and the Paralympics opening ceremony is on 25 August.

New permanent venues for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games

Musashino Forest Sport Plaza

First of the new permanent venues to be completed in March 2017

Yumenoshima Park Archery Field

Located on Dream Island, it is built on a landfill site used between 1957 and 1967

Sea Forest Waterway 

Spectators will have views of Tokyo Bay and the Tokyo Gate Bridge from the grandstand

Kasai Canoe Slalom Centre

The slalom course is the first of its kind in Japan and will have temporary seating for 7,500 fans

Oi Hockey Stadium

Blue surface used at the stadium is made from up to 60% sugar cane - which requires 2/3 less water than previous Olympic turfs

New National Stadium

Built on exactly the same footprint as previous National Stadium in Tokyo which was used for the Summer Games in 1964

Ariake Arena

The waterside venue is expected to cost $320 million (£243 million)

Tokyo Aquatics Centre

Once complete it will be among the biggest swimming facilities in the world

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