According to a survey by Video Research, the average household viewership rating for the live broadcast of the 101st Tokyo-Hakone Round-Trip College Ekiden Race (Hakone Ekiden) (Nippon TV Network) was 27.9% for the outbound leg (2nd) and 28.8% for the return leg (3rd) (Kanto region, same below). The household average for the round-trip leg was 28.4%, ranking 8th in history, and the individual average was 17.2%, ranking 4th in history.
The highest household moment on the outbound leg was 32.1%, when Chuo University's Yoshii Shunyasu won the first leg at the Tsurumi relay station, and on the return leg it was 34.1%, when Aoyama Gakuin University finished as the overall winner.
21 teams competed in the Hakone Ekiden over 10 sections (107.5km outbound and 109.6km return) between Otemachi, Tokyo and Hakone-machi, Kanagawa. Aoyama Gakuin University won both the outbound leg on the 2nd and the return leg on the 3rd, taking the overall victory for the 8th time in 2 years.