Monday January 23, 2006 
Monday January 23, 2006
Rare Tokyo snow strands 10000 at Narita airport
A rare snowfall in Tokyo has left nearly 10,000 passengers stranded overnight at Narita airport after about 50 international flights were cancelled. The season's first snowfall in the greater Tokyo region measured 9cm in the centre of the capital, the heaviest accumulation in eight years.
At Narita airport, some 60 kilometres from downtown Tokyo, 51 international flights were cancelled on Sunday as airport workers were unable to remove snow from runways quickly enough. More than 90 other flights were delayed for a night, leaving passengers stuck in the terminal. At Tokyo's domestic Haneda airport, some 100 flights were cancelled on Saturday, disrupting the travel plans of some 14,000 passengers.
It usually snows lightly only a few times a year in the Tokyo region, located on the warmer Pacific side of Japan's main island. Coastal regions have experienced Japan's deadliest winter in more than two decades, with at least 102 deaths recorded by Tuesday, with many of the victims crushed by snow or falling from buildings while clearing snow from roofs.
See also :
1. Europe's cold snap causes widespread travel disruption
(2006-01-23 20:05:35 SGT)
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