Hakone Tozan Railway Year-end restoration is difficult At least 10 places landslides October 16 18:01
At Hakone Tozan Train in Hakone-machi, Kanagawa Prefecture, where typhoon No. 19 has reached 48 millimeters of rainfall, landslides have occurred in more than a dozen places. The impact is expected to be prolonged.
According to the Hakone Tozan Railway, the Hakone Tozan Railway has landslides at least a dozen places between Hakone Yumoto Station and Gora Station.
Of these, the track between Kosugaya Station and Miyanoshita Station was swept away with the foundation part for over 20 meters, and a largely bent track was left on the site with fallen trees.
In addition, a large amount of stones collapsed to fill the railway track at the exit of the tunnel near Ohiradai Station, and the damage was wide.
The Hakone Tozan Railway is studying the method of restoration work, but it will take at least a few months to restore, making it difficult to recover within the year, and the impact is expected to be prolonged before the autumn tourist season .
A couple in their 70s who visited Osaka for sightseeing said, “This is an important trip for brothers to gather once in a few years. It ’s hard to get through the train. .
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