Marunouchi is the district located right next to Tokyo Station where you will see a lot of business people in suits and ties on weekdays.
But on this particular day, workers got out from behind their desks and changed into T-shirts, shorts and sneakers to turn the normally buttoned-down area into an unlikely locale for athletics.
On Friday evening, they formed 10-man teams and competed in the first-ever Square Mile Relay Tokyo.
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