Evacuated evacuation shelters are filled with evacuees.
In Hayama Town, Kanagawa Prefecture, where evacuation advisories have been issued, there are evacuation centers that are full of evacuated people and are unable to accept new evacuations.
In Hayama Town, evacuation advisories have been issued for 17,175 households and 16,306 people, including the coastal areas of the town, and evacuation centers have been established in 11 places in the town.
According to Hayama Town, one of the shelters adjacent to the government office, “Hayama Town Welfare Cultural Hall”, secured an 80 tatami Japanese room as an evacuation space.
However, more than 60 people evacuated and no space was available in about 2 hours after the opening at 8:30 am, so it became impossible to accept new evacuees.
In the town, a paper stating that the evacuees cannot be accepted is affixed to the entrance of the hall, and the disaster prevention radio and website are used to respond to the use of other shelters such as nearby junior high schools.
A woman in her 40s who had evacuated said, “I had never evacuated until now, but this time the typhoon was so big that I evacuated for the first time.”
Hayama-cho Tadashi Kashima, General Manager of the Welfare Division, said, “There are more evacuees than expected, so I would like the townspeople to use other evacuation sites.