At the 2020 Summer Olympics opening ceremony , the relay will end with the lighting of the cauldron . In December 2018 it was announced that the cauldrons would be placed in the Olympic Stadium and on the waterfront near the Yume-no-Ohashi bridge . After the opening ceremony the flame would be transferred to the waterfront , with the stadium cauldron extinguished until the closing ceremony ; with organisers stating that it was difficult to keep the cauldron in the stadium
2020 Summer Olympics opening ceremony
2020 Summer Olympics opening ceremony
2020 Summer Olympics torch relay