Typhoon approaches southwestern Japan; train service disruptions expected

Stay safe, please.

A general rule of thumb is that a typhoon will only hit the area I'm in if it's my day off and/or on holidays. Was supposed to hit anywhere from Monday to Wednesday, not it's looking light Saturday/Sunday. Sigh.

But yes, stay safe.

Here we go again with the “stay safe everyone, we’re in Asia!”

Why don’t you just say, “Dear Ojii-chan-tachi. Don’t climb up on your roof to fix a roof tile in the middle of the storm”. Or, “ Don’t try to do any last minute fishing, Ojii-chan.

Everyone else, should be okay.

NHK now specifically says “please don’t go out to check on the River or the fields.”

The eyewall has expanded 10 miles to 60km, since yesterday,meaning it has no wind shear resistance and will come ashore with strong,wind,rain and tidal surge near Kagoshima

This typhoon is predicted to will hit also Noto peninsula where stalemated reconstruction by negligence of LDP government despite 8 months after strong quake hit.

My 85yo father in law will be ‘off to look at the river’ when it hits our area, that’s what he does every year.

Many rivers have cams.

@smithinjapan

Another rule of thumb is that it’ll start raining as I leave the building and stop as I fold the umbrella to enter another.

Wallace are you in the eyewall, everybody in Japan will be in the eyewall sometime this week as pass through Japan,it has another day to intensify,winds are clock at 120 mph and 20ft waves ahead of the eyewall Google Hurricane Eyewall Destruction

Lots of Japanese official are over confident with their Typhoon readiness,not to have people near the coast evacuation,all storm are not the same,our weather service give us updates track,are in contact with local officials, Japanese have not had a storm that impacts the whole country like this Sunday they will be seconding not having people evacuate

All the toilet paper was sold out at our local. Thank you.

Just about everyone in Japan from Kagoshima to Sapporo will feel something by Sunday, including you according to the European Hurricane model,

A direct hit or a near miss seems to be something to worry about. Hurricanes in South East US suddenly make direct turns that are not expected. There is a chance, however slight, that this one could, too. I'd take it very seriously till the thing passed.

It's really slow moving at this point which could be a threat for floods. Stay safe Japan!