Road and rail traffic around Tokyo continues to be partially blocked due to the snowfall that started on Monday afternoon and continued until Tuesday morning. writes about this TASS Referring to Japan Traffic Information Center.
Many highway entrances in the capital are closed until the storm is over. Drivers are asked to avoid driving vehicles without winter tires or chains.
Trains in the Tokyo area are still not running on some train lines. It is planned that the traffic will be completely repaired during the current day. A total of 27 flights were canceled at the capital’s airports on Tuesday.
About 1,800 homes were left without power in Tokyo Prefecture and neighboring Kanagawa and Saitama, according to Tokyo Electric Power.
In the capital of Japan, the thickness of the snow cover reached 7 cm, in the mountainous regions there was about 40 cm of precipitation per day.
early snowfall left Half a million people in the DPR are without electricity.