Snow Is A Problem In Tokyo, 200 People Sent To Hospital For Slipping On The Street

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JAKARTA - Who knows when you read this news, you will be in Tokyo, Japan. Beware of heavy snowfall that is pouring this city. The road is super slippery.

It's nothing, due to slippery roads in Tokyo, more than 200 people have been sent to the hospital on Thursday and Friday after slipping and falling due to ice and snow on the streets, as quoted by Japan Today, Friday, January 7th.

Central Tokyo had 10 centimeters of snow on Thursday night, with traffic remaining disrupted on Friday. Temperatures dropped to minus 3.5 degrees Celsius in the central area of the capital on Friday morning, 1.8 degrees Celsius lower than the previous day.

A total of 215 people between the ages of 9 and 97 have been taken to hospitals in Tokyo due to falls. This data is issued by the Tokyo Fire Department.

In fact, 77 traffic accidents resulting in injuries have occurred in Tokyo due to the snow on Friday morning.

Toll roads serving the greater Tokyo area were partially closed and nine flights operated by All Nippon Airways departing from or arriving at Tokyo's Haneda airport were cancelled.

On the Metropolitan Expressway, snowfall trapped 100 vehicles on the Tokyo Gate Bridge at one point. The Rainbow Bridge, a major tourist attraction in the capital, remained closed Friday morning.

In neighboring Saitama Prefecture, four men sustained minor injuries Friday morning in an accident involving five trucks in Kasukabe, local police said, adding they suspected it was caused by an icy road. An 84-year-old man broke his leg after falling while he was riding a bicycle, according to local authorities.

In Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, 346 traffic accidents had occurred as of Friday morning due to snow and ice on roads, police said.

At JR Shimbashi Station in Tokyo's main business district, many passengers walk carefully on the icy roads.

"It's hard to walk because the roads around my house are also frozen. I wish I could work remotely today," said Namiki Kasahara, a 29-year-old resident of Nishitokyo.

“It took longer than usual to commute because my bus was late,” said a 43-year-old man from Yokohama.