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.


Dusar kankara a babban birnin lardin ya kai 96 cm (sama da inci 37) har zuwa karfe 9 na dare. Jumma'a, wanda ya kai 90 cm a karon farko a cikin Disamba tun 1966.

Dusar ƙanƙara mai ƙanƙara ta tilastawa kamfanonin jiragen sama soke sama da jirage 260 da ke haɗa New Chitose Airport, kudancin Sapporo, da sauran wurare, a cewar ma'aikacin filin jirgin. Hokkaido Railway Co. ya kuma ce ya soke ayyukan jirgin kasa sama da 380.

Wata iska mai karfi ta janyo katsewar wutar lantarki a wasu gidaje 3,800 a garin Erimo da kuma wani bangare na garin Samani.

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