The Tokyo 2020 Olympic flame is displayed outside Fukushima railway station in Fukushima Prefecture on March 24, 2020. (PHILIP FONG / AFP)

TOKYO - The Olympic flame will be displayed in Fukushima for a month before being kept in Tokyo, local reports said on Sunday.

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Japanese broadcaster NHK said that the flame, which arrived in Japan from Athens on March 20, will be on display in J-Villiage, Fukushima from April.

"The show will be managed carefully to avoid coronavirus spread," the report said. "It would be suspended should there is a big crowd."

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The flame will be brought back to Tokyo but Tokyo 2020 has not decided where to keep it before the torch relay starts next year.