{"id":136461,"date":"2025-09-12T00:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T00:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/136461\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T00:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T00:39:09","slug":"sudden-deluge-of-rain-floods-some-streets-and-halts-air-and-rail-traffic-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/136461\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudden deluge of rain floods some streets and halts air and rail traffic in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy rain flooded some streets and halted rail and air traffic in Tokyo with more storms forecast.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve centimetres of rain fell in just one hour in the capital, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Air traffic control and other ground services at Tokyo&#8217;s Haneda Airport were halted because of lightning, preventing aircraft from taking off.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/d32f2614-ba81-4d00-86fa-b3dd31d2191d.jpeg\"   alt=\"Vehicles drive through a flooded road.\"\/>Vehicles drive through a flooded road. (AP)<\/p>\n<p>Railway operations were also temporarily suspended, including the bullet train and other lines in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Across Tokyo, the rainstorm flooded streets and some social media users reporting seeing hail. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, more than 7,000 homes in Tokyo were without power at one point. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/d5b1d8d7-d339-44fd-b1fe-c0828332f6e2.jpeg\"   alt=\"A Japanese person rides a bicycle through a road flooded by the heavy rain.\"\/>A Japanese person rides a bicycle through a road flooded by the heavy rain. (AP)<\/p>\n<p>By late Thursday, power has been restored to most of them.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities warned of more thunderstorms overnight and urged residents to stay indoors, avoid unnecessary travel and monitor weather updates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9.nine.com.au\/Z8tJCf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up here<\/a> to receive our daily newsletters and breaking news alerts, sent straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heavy rain flooded some streets and halted rail and air traffic in Tokyo with more storms forecast. Twelve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-136461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}