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.
Chipale chofewa mu likulu la prefectural chinafika 96 cm (kupitilira mainchesi 37) kuyambira 9pm Lachisanu, kupitilira 90 cm koyamba mu Disembala kuyambira 1966.
Chipale chofewa chinakakamiza makampani oyendetsa ndege kuti aletse maulendo opitilira 260 omwe amalumikizana ndi New Chitose Airport, kumwera kwa Sapporo, ndi malo ena, malinga ndi woyendetsa eyapoti. Hokkaido Railway Co. yatinso idayimitsa masitima apamtunda opitilira 380.
Mphepo yamphamvu inazima magetsi m’nyumba pafupifupi 3,800 m’tauni ya Erimo ndi mbali ina ya tauni ya Samani.
