With the year-end and New Year holidays approaching for the first time since the new coronavirus moved to Class 5, JR Kofu Station is crowded with people heading to their hometowns from the Tokyo area.
At JR Kofu Station, when the limited express train from Tokyo arrived in the morning, families with large luggage disembarked one after another.
According to JR East Japan, the 30th is considered to be the peak of the homecoming rush, and as of the morning of the 30th, 39 of the 30 limited express trains going down were full or almost full, and congestion is returning to the level before the spread of the new corona infection.
The turnstiles were crowded with people who had disembarked and those who had come to greet them, and they were happy to see their families again after a long absence.
A woman in her 30s who returned from Tokyo to Kofu City, where her parents live, said, "It was a fun year to be able to go to my favorite concerts after the new corona.
In addition, a couple in their 1s and their 30-year-old daughter who returned to Kofu City said, "The air in Kofu is delicious when I breathe it for the first time in a long time.
The uphill U-turn rush toward Tokyo is expected to peak on January 4.