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    <h2 style="color: #333; font-size: 24px; border-bottom: none; margin-bottom: 10px;">Custom Tokyo Marathon Medals: A Cherry-Blossom Finisher Award Your Runners Will Never Retire</h2>
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        Turn 42.195 kilometres into a keepsake with Vistarts' <strong>custom Tokyo marathon medals</strong>. Each piece is die-cut into a five-petal cherry blossom silhouette, mirror-gold plated and hand-filled in soft enamel so Mount Fuji, the Tokyo Tower lattice and your finisher figures read cleanly at a glance. Bilingual typography — Japanese and English on the same face — is cut into the tooling, not printed on top, so your event name stays crisp for decades.
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        <li style="margin-bottom: 15px;"><strong>The Medal Looks Like Every Other Race.</strong> A plain disc says nothing about where your event is held. Our <strong>custom die-cut silhouette</strong> — sakura, maple leaf, mountain crest or your own city mark — plus a knurled gold rim turns the medal into a collectible that sells out your merchandise table.</li>
        <li style="margin-bottom: 15px;"><strong>Japanese or Arabic Typesetting Comes Back Garbled.</strong> Complex scripts are where most factories fail. Our <strong>Bilingual Type Proofing Protocol</strong> cuts the characters into CNC tooling and pairs them with a native-language proofreader, so every stroke and spacing rule is verified before mass production.</li>
        <li style="margin-bottom: 15px;"><strong>Colour Bleeds in the Fine Details.</strong> Steel lattices, snow caps and petal edges need more than one colour in a few square millimetres. Our <strong>six-station manual enamel filling line</strong> handles multi-colour micro-details that automated filling simply cannot reach.</li>
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        <p style="margin-bottom: 25px; font-size: 16px;">Send your event artwork and receive a <strong>FREE 3D digital mockup</strong> with a full bulk quotation in 24 hours.</p>
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1️⃣ Product Description 

This 42.195KM finisher medal is built as a five-petal cherry blossom rather than a circle, so the silhouette itself carries the identity of the race. The body is die-cast in eco-friendly zinc alloy and finished in mirror-gold plating, with a finely knurled gold rim running around the entire blossom edge — a detail that adds weight in the hand and scatters light in finish-line photography. Inside the petals, a soft enamel landscape is divided by crisp raised metal lines: a snow-capped Mount Fuji in white and pale blue anchors the centre, the Tokyo Tower rises on the right with a dot-textured lattice reproducing its steel framework in red and white, and three raised gold runner silhouettes — arms swinging, one clearly female — stride across a deep blue field that reads as a starting-line sky. The upper petal carries pink and blush swirl-cloud motifs with a single drifting white blossom, while white and pink waves loop beneath the runners as both a running track and a scatter of fallen petals. Typography is cut into the tooling and left in black: 東京 / マラソン arranged vertically on the left petal, TOKYO MARATHON in a clean sans-serif on the right, and a gold finisher plaque at lower right reading FINISHER 42.195KM. The medal hangs from a one-piece cast gold loop onto a satin ribbon printed with oversized semi-abstract sakura petals in a white-to-pink gradient.

2️⃣ Company Strength 

Vistarts operates a 10,000 sqm manufacturing campus in Shenzhen with five production lines covering die-casting, edge knurling, electroplating, enamel filling and ribbon printing under a single roof. More than 150 craftspeople and a 20-person design studio support capacities above 600,000 medals a year, with individual orders routinely scaled to 50,000 pieces. Because the tooling workshop, the six-station enamel line and the ribbon sublimation press all sit in-house, there is no external bottleneck between an approved mockup and a locked shipping date. Every Tokyo medal passes a three-gate inspection — raw casting geometry, post-enamel colour verification against your Pantone references, and a 100% finished-goods check — with each batch photographed and archived against your PO.

3️⃣ Why Choose Us 

We are a manufacturer, not a trading desk. Fifteen years in awards production have made us the certified medal partner for Olympic Games and World Cup programmes, and our plant carries Disney and Universal Studios social-compliance audits — documentation that matters when a national sponsor or a municipal authority is on your event paperwork. Orders ship with RoHS, SGS, EN71 and California Prop 65 reports as standard, and recycled zinc alloy, nickel-free plating and RPET ribbon are available for races with published sustainability targets. Our genuine edge is complexity: custom die-cut silhouettes, bilingual script tooling, knurled borders and multi-colour micro-details are daily work here, and the production piece is guaranteed against the mockup you approve.

4️⃣ CTA 

Your finishers trained for months to cross that line in Tokyo — give them something worth hanging on the wall. Send your race name, landmark references and quantity to Vistarts today, and our studio will return a free 3D mockup with a complete landed-cost quotation within 24 hours. No tooling charge is raised until you approve the artwork.

[Email info@vistarts.com and Start Your Free Mockup]

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FAQ 

Q1: What is the minimum order quantity for a custom sakura medal, and can we reorder later?

 A: Standard MOQ is 100 pieces per design. The five-petal die, the knurled rim and the bilingual type plate are all cut once and stored, so a first-year community race can order 100 and reorder 5,000 the next season with no new tooling charge and identical specs.

Q2: We are not in Tokyo. Can the sakura, Mount Fuji and Tokyo Tower be swapped for our own landmarks? 

A: Yes — the design is built from independent tooling sections, so the silhouette and the interior landscape are separate decisions. Send us photos or line art of your landmark, mascot or signature landmark and our 20-person studio will rebuild the composition around it, then issue a 3D mockup for approval before any steel is cut.

Q3: Can you reproduce Japanese, Korean or Arabic text accurately on the medal? 

A: Yes, and this is one of our specialities. Characters are cut as raised or recessed elements directly into the CNC tooling rather than printed, and every order passes our Bilingual Type Proofing Protocol: an in-house native proofreader checks stroke forms, spacing and vertical layout against your supplied copy before tooling is finalised.

Q4: How many enamel colours can you do, and will fine details like the tower lattice blur together?

 A: We routinely run up to eight enamel colours on one face, and the standard is six or fewer for cost efficiency. Micro-details such as the Tokyo Tower lattice, the snow cap and individual petals are filled by hand across six filling stations rather than by automated dispensing, which is what prevents colour bleeding where two hues sit within a couple of square millimetres.

Q5: How long does production take, and can you guarantee delivery before our race date? 

A: Sampling takes 7-10 days, including a physical colour reference for your approval, and mass production runs 15-20 days from mockup sign-off. Once we accept your race date we reserve the production slot at deposit and ship by DDP air freight so cartons land at your venue 3-5 days ahead of the first wave. Compressed schedules down to 12 working days are possible on request.

Q6: Are the medals compliant for events in Japan, the EU and the US? 

A: Yes. Every order ships with RoHS, SGS and EN71 test reports, a California Prop 65 statement and a lead-free nickel-release declaration. Safety breakaway clasps are fitted as standard so the ribbon releases under load, and our Disney and Universal Studios audits cover labour and social compliance alongside materials.

Q7: How heavy is the medal, and are the thin petal tips strong enough to survive shipping? 

A: The body is 4.0 mm thick and weighs roughly 80-95 g at 80 mm across — substantial in the hand without dragging on a neck during the post-race walk. Petal tips are engineered with a minimum 2.5 mm radius and shipped in moulded EVA inserts inside double-wall cartons, so there are no stressed thin sections to snap. A 5.0 mm body is available if you want a heavier premium feel.

Q8: Do we get to see the design before paying, and who owns the artwork afterwards? 

A: You receive a free 3D digital mockup within 24 hours of sending your brief, together with a full quotation covering tooling, ribbon and DDP freight. No tooling charge is raised until you formally approve it, and we revise until the artwork is right. Your design files and the tooling remain yours — we do not resell or reuse race-specific artwork for any other customer.