Japan Sapporo Tourism: Snow disaster shuts down airport and trains

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In the Japanese tourism world,  Sapporo, capital city of the mountainous northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, is famous for its beer, skiing and annual Sapporo Snow Festival featuring enormous ice sculptures. Hokkaido had heavy snow Friday, with Sapporo observing the heaviest snowfall in 50 years for December, and nearly 50,000 people were affected after air and railway traffic was disrupted.


Uporomoko wa theluji katika mji mkuu wa mkoa ulifikia cm 96 (zaidi ya inchi 37) hadi saa 9 jioni Ijumaa, ikiongezeka kwa cm 90 kwa mara ya kwanza mnamo Desemba tangu 1966.

Theluji nzito ililazimisha kampuni za ndege kughairi zaidi ya ndege 260 zinazounganisha Uwanja wa Ndege wa New Chitose, kusini mwa Sapporo, na maeneo mengine, kulingana na mwendeshaji wa uwanja huo. Hokkaido Railway Co pia ilisema ilifuta huduma zaidi ya 380 za gari moshi.

Upepo mkali ulisababisha kukatika kwa umeme katika nyumba 3,800 katika mji wa Erimo na sehemu ya mji wa Samani.

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