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.
截至週五晚上96時，縣府首都的降雪量達到37厘米（超過9英寸），自90年以來，去年1966月首次降雪XNUMX厘米。
據機場運營商稱，大雪迫使航空公司取消了連接札幌南部新千歲機場及其他地點的260多個航班。 北海道鐵路公司也表示取消了380趟火車服務。
強風導致埃里莫鎮和薩馬尼鎮部分地區的約3,800戶房屋停電。
