Typhoon Ampil is about to hit/brush with eastern coast of Hokkaido on Friday, 16 August and affect eastern and northern part of Honshu for 36-48 hours with sustained winds up to 80 knots, gusts up to 115 knots and heavy rains.
Please plan accordingly – cancel your trips into affected areas, especially mountains and landslide prone parts of the country, stay indoors until the danger passes, follow instructions of your hotel staff in case of evacuation orders being issued. Please do not plan 'typhoon watch parties' or any other silly stuff.
You can follow typhoon's tracking here and updated list of advisories – here.
JR East has already possible suspension of many Kanto and Tohoku area services at least on 16 and 17 August, as well as very probable cancellations of all its shinkansen services from around noon on 16 August with Tohoku, Akita and Yamagata shinkansen stoppages lasting whole day of 17th, and possibilty of suspension of Narita Express both on 16th and 17th.
JR Central has announced that all Tokaido shinkansen operations will be suspended between Tokyo and Nagoya on 16th, and Nagoya to Shin-Osaka services will be reduce to 2 Kodama trains an hour. Operations of services on 17th will be assessed after shinkansen passes over. Additional trains will be added on 15th.
Other railway companies including Keikyu, Keisei and Tokyo Monorail already put announcements about possible cancellations of services on 16th and 17th. It's very likely that no rail or bus services will run in Tokyo and Yokohama area from before noon on 16 August until it will be safe to resumer service.
Please take under consideration that Haneda and Narita Airports might be unreachable on 16 and 17 August. If they will be operating, airline companies will likely refuse to refund/rebook your flights, if you couldn't get there. If you have concerns, whether your flight is operating, please contact your carrier directly.
- JR East status information: https://traininfo.jreast.co.jp/train_info/e/service.aspx
- JR Central status information: https://global.jr-central.co.jp/en/
- Keikyu status information: https://unkou.keikyu.co.jp/
- Keisei status information: https://www.keisei.co.jp/
Tokyo Monorail status information: https://www.tokyo-monorail.co.jp/english/
Haneda Airport webpage: https://tokyo-haneda.com/en/
Narita Airport webpage: https://www.narita-airport.jp/en/
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