Tokyo, Japan issued snow alert! Airport crash, flight chaos!

According to Japan's NHK News network reported on January 23, affected by heavy snow, Narita Airport in Japan closed two runways from 7 p.m. on the 22nd, resulting in the suspension of 187 flights. Narita Airport closed runway A at around 7:20 p.m. and began snow removal at around 8 p.m. Another B runway because a JAL flight 742 from Manila to Japan was trapped in the snow on the taxiway, resulting in the B runway was also forced to close, and the airport's takeoff and landing functions were almost suspended.

Although the runway was reopened after midnight on Monday, Narita Airport said 9,000 passengers had to spend the night at the airport because they could not take their scheduled flights or could not return home after their flights arrived.

At the arrival hall of Narita Airport's main terminal at around 6 a.m. Monday, passengers were sitting on the ground or huddled in sleeping bags, waiting for flights to depart and trains to operate.

Tokyo 22, Japan after two years of heavy snow, resulting in tram suspension, flight suspension and other conditions continue, the evening transport services are crowded with people, Haneda airport based domestic flights have been grounded 301 classes, affected by more than 50,000 passengers. At least 21 flights were grounded today.

The Japan Meteorological Agency said that Kanto Kasin and the Pacific side of the northeast region will continue to snow until dawn on the 23rd, may cause road traffic chaos due to frozen roads, must remove snow and other reasons, and urged people to go home as soon as possible. JR East also announced that several special express trains between Tokyo, Yamanashi, Nagano, Saitama, Chiba, Tochigi and Shizuoka prefectures had been cancelled at noon, and 55 trains between Tokyo and Hakone by Oda Express Railway had also been cancelled in the afternoon.