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1,000 people stuck overnight in Japan traffic jam stretching 9 miles long

Reports of the traffic jam, on the Kanetsu Expressway connecting Tokyo and Niigata prefectures, began emerging on Wednesday. By the early hours of Thursday morning, authorities had closed the highway entrance to alleviate clogging.

The jam began after a car got stuck in deep snow in the middle of the highway, grinding traffic to a halt, according to the Nippon Expressway Company (NEXCO), the country’s highway operator.

The country’s central and northern regions had been hit with heavy snowfall that morning, disrupting transit and causing some communities to lose power.

Traffic built up on the stalled highway; at its peak on Thursday night, the jam stretched to 15 kilometers (about 9.3 miles), NEXCO told CNN. Some segments of the long traffic line were able to move slowly with starts and stops, but some motorists remained stuck in place for more than 40 hours.

The jam continued through Friday; the lanes coming from Tokyo eventually cleared, but the lanes heading into the capital were still halted. As of noon on Friday, there were still 1,000 cars stuck.

Photos of the highway show the long lines of unmoving cars, many with piles of snow on top of and around their vehicles, stranded amid snow-covered fields.

Some limited relief came on Thursday when emergency responders passed out rice balls, bread, crackers, sweet snacks, and 600 bottles of water, as well as thousands of liters of gasoline and diesel oil.

But it wasn’t enough, with drivers stuck for many more hours in the cold.

“The snow was extremely heavy. As time went by, the cars got buried. I was really scared,” one unnamed driver told Japanese public broadcaster NHK. “I’ve eaten all of my food and drinks. Now, to drink water, I have to melt snow I collect in a plastic bottle.”

A woman in her 30s and a man in his 60s were taken from the jam to hospital for respiratory problems and nausea on Thursday, according to Niigata’s crisis management officer, Tsuyoshi Watanabe. No fatal or serious incidents have been reported so far.

Watanabe added that the prefecture has asked for the Japan Self-Defense Forces to be dispatched to provide water, food, gasoline and portable toilets for the people still stuck on Friday, and to help clear away the snow.

NEXCO is also warning drivers, through social media and over the radio, to be careful of the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning while waiting in their cars for hours at a time.

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has met with ministers to discuss the heavy snowfall, calling on local officials to work together to restore services and help those affected, NHK reported.

This story was updated to reflect that the traffic jam started on Wednesday.

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Mt. Fuji & Lake Kawaguchiko Private Tour Overview

The tour starts from Shinjuku Station, Tokyo to visit Lake Kawaguchiko at the north foot of Mt. Fuji, not to climb Mt. Fuji nor to visit Hakone. Mt. Fuji is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Japan which was designated as a World Cultural Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2013. The area has a variety of attraction with panoramic Mt. Fuji and Fuji Five Lakes, cherry blossoms in spring, colored leaves in autumn and beautiful landscape covered with white snow in winter. The tour highlights some view points around Mt. Fuji including lakes, parks, an excursion ship, and an onsen hot spring bathhouse. Your itinerary will be tailored upon your request.

Note: Mt. Fuji is often invisible unless weather permits and the alternative tour date may be suggested by the guide. The tours is offered from November through May exclusively when Mt. Fuji is snow-capped. A part of or a whole tour can be canceled due to bad weather such as heavy snow fall.

Tour Itinerary 9:30 - 10:30 Shinjuku to Otsuki, Limited Express Kaiji 3

11:30 - 11:50 Excursion Ship Ensoleille on Lake Kawaguchiko

12:00 - 12:50 Lunch, hoto wheat noodles or Japanese cuisine

13:00 - 13:10 View Mt. Fuji from Lake Kawaguchiko

13:30 - 13:40 View Mt. Fuji from Lake Saiko

13:45 - 14:30 Saiko Iyashino-Sato Nenba, old folk village

14:45 - 15:45 Onsen hot spring bath at Yurari

16:47 - 17:51 Otsuki to Shinjuku, Limited Express Kaiji 18

The itinerary will be flexibly tailored upon your request to include Arakura Sengen Park, Oshino Hakkai spring, shrines, lakes or seasonal events. Tour 

Price

396 USD per group (maximum guests: 7), and additionally, the travel expense such as transportation, lunch and admission of each tourist attraction will be previously estimated and the actual expense is expected to be settled at the end of the tour.

Estimated Local Cash Needed: 11,000 JPY (approx. 100 USD ) per person,  6000 JPY (approx. 55 USD) for a child under 12 years old; 4640 yen: round-trip trains from Shinjuku 3550 yen: local transportation around Mt. Fuji 1000 yen: excursion ship 350 yen: old folk village 1450 yen: onsen hot spring bath house The transportation will be booked by the guide in advance, but train seats are supposed to be reserved by the guest in case you would like to book them with your Japan Rail Pass.

What's Included: Guide fee, itinerary arrangement, reservation of the transportation method on behalf of the guest. What's Extra: Transportation, lunch and admission of each tourist attraction. The expense will be previously estimated when your detailed itinerary is offered by the guide. Meeting Location: Shinjuku Station End location: Shinjuku Station

Guide

Yoshihide Hagimoto Credentials: Certified guide interpreter,  Domestic travel service supervisor Languages: English (advanced), Japanese (fluent)

I have been involved in tourism business for years. I used to work as the editor-in-chief of a major hotel booking website in Japan. I am a certified guide interpreter and a domestic travel service supervisor. I have been working recently as the director of a social travel website DeepJapan.org that offers practical advice about travel in Japan posted by hundreds of international members who have been living in Japan. I published "Mt. Fuji Travel Guide" e-book in 2014 and I am familiar with the area, where I can suggest the places you should visit out of dozens of local tourist attractions. It is always my great pleasure to guide overseas tourists to Japan and I would like to show you a lot more attractive places that you can visit and experience in this country.

Reservation

Please send your message from the following Facebook page with your desired tour date (a week or more prior to the tour date)

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