Well it's over and it was a total nothing burger. Meteorologists were predicting two days ago, but it didn't fit the super typhoon narrative the media had whipped up so instead we got a load of hype and a bunch of unneeded transport closures.

ANA will either eventually rebook your cancelled flight onto another one or refund your miles since your trip hasn't started. On an award ticket, ANA will be more reluctant to reroute you on another carrier than if it's a cash ticket. You could ask ANA if they'll allow you to skip the TYO-BKK segment and resume your trip from BKK but if ANA doesn't allow it, your onward flights (BKK return) will be cancelled. And if they do allow it, you are solely responsible for getting there.

The other issue is unless you have a valid onward flight from TYO when you attempt to check in for your MEX flight, you probably will not be allowed to board.

Makes you wonder if it was a nothingburger why they decided to cancel all flights today as well.

Is anyone else trying to reach ANA? I called their US number have been on the phone on hold now for over 3 hours (no exagerration), has anyone been able to get through? I realy just need them to answer the question I asked above. If I fly to Tokyo and catch whatever cheap flight to Bangkok, will the rest of the itinerary be cancelled even though the connecting flight i was supposed to take was cancelled, or do I HAVE to fly with ANA to Bangkok on whatever flight they put me on in order to not cancel the other half of my reservation?


Interesting, so if I catch tonights flight to NRT then the trip's already started and they wont be able to refund my miles anymore.... Yes that is the main problem i'm worried about is ANA doesn't allow me to skip leg, they must rebook me but next flight out is 5 days out or something crazy. I'd much rather pay $500 for a last minute ticket with whatever airline in economy from TYO to DMK/BKK then sit in Tokyo for 5 days which my travel insurance would not completely cover beyond a paltry $250 or so.

Anyone in Tokyo could report if the trains are expected to be back to anytime today? Does it seem like Monday flights are also expecting cancellations?

It is 6 a.m. and no rail companies has provided update, yet. I am monitoring Japanese news website which has summaries of cancellation/delay by monitoring each company websites and announcements to press.

JR East said yesterday that they are expecting service cancellation to be till least noon on Sunday. Rail companies are saying the they will slowly resume the service once they have safety inspection cleared.

Airline has not said anything about Monday flights but I suspect there will be some cancellation/delay due to residual aircraft and crew positioning situation, since ANA and JAL both cancelled all operation at NRT on Sunday. However, both ANA and AJL did not cancel their entire operation at HND on Sunday, though.

Last month when I flew out of NRT a day after Typhoon no. 15, there were good number of people in the terminal prepared to spend second night because they could not get rebooking. There had to be additional good number of people at hotels and at their homes spending second night due to rebooking. Saw few people getting at check-in counter telling an agents, "I know other passengers got rebooked on today's flight. I need to get back today and cannot wait till tomorrow!"

You might want to turn on NHK. Might help you get out of your bubble.

In other news, rugby match in Kamaishi has been canceled.

I just going to list current access to airports as of 7:20 a.m.

HND:
Tokyo Monorail: Not in service. But aiming to resume service around 8:30 a.m. with reduced schedule
Keikyu: Airport Line, Haneda Airport-Shinagawa and Haneda Airport-Kawasaki. Service resumed with reduced schedule. Other portion of Keikyu line not in service.
Limousine Bus: Resumed service on 6:30 a.m. with very limited service in the morning, expecting more frequent service in afternoon.

NRT:
Keisei: Operating with reduced schedule. Looks like Skyliner is running, also.
JR: Not in service.
Limousine Bus: Resumed service on 6:30 a.m. with very limited service in the morning, expecting more frequent service in afternoon.

I have to agree with 5khours here. I have taken an hour long walk around my neighbourhood and adjoining areas in Tokyo. I have yet to see a single incident of damage. Greatest inconvenience is that Starbucks is closed, and people have not been out to sweep up the fallen leaves.

I watched NHlK and read their news, there are damages, but considering the media hype the damages are rather limited.

On a light note, my local 7-11 is open a fully restocked Aeon was reopening just now and fresh supplies being delivered, which makes me laugh again at the people hoarding food and clearing out the shelves Friday and Saturday.

Kawasaki�s looking really bad.
Tap water no longer potable in my hometown. The river there has never even come close to flooding since I was born, but it�s now on the verge. Nagano looks so bad.

When we have windstorm here that knocks limbs off trees, it�s a big deal here (USA). People (myself included) take time off work when stuff happens. Over there, they get one disaster after another, but stores and trains and public infrastructure get fixed up fast. There must be workers working tirelessly behind the scenes to restore everything quickly each time, prioritizing their work over damages to their own homes/mansions.

Power got knocked out last night to a lot of areas here in Kanagawa, but it's not nearly as bad as how Nagano looks. Electricity got restored to my place about half an hour ago, so props to Tepco and all the other infra workers out there this morning.

Not to say typhoons don't cause damage and loss of life, but compared to many, many other typhoons that hit the Tokyo area this one was mild. And relative to the media hype this one was as I said a total nothing burger. (As meteorologists predicted) it barely met the criteria for a typhoon when it made landfall. The media hype forced public officials and transport companies to over-react.

Great. Let them over-react. This was the same storm that caused historic flooding in Nagano and Tochigi, and will have been responsible for at least 20 deaths when all is said and done. And that's with everybody over-reacting and trains on lockdown.

I too was inconvenienced, but overall I'm glad that people like you are having less influence in bullying others into making unsafe decisions.

Has nothing to do with making safe or unsafe decisions, it's about making rational decisions. Japan is usually pretty good at this, but this time around the media caused everybody to act like lemmings.

In other news, it looks like the JR lines downtown are starting to get moving again. The Yamanote Line is slowly spooling up again as of 09:30. The monorail has been back since 08:00 and all of the Keikyu Line is coming back now, so Haneda is at least reachable by train.

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You're absolutely wrong, and that's the last I have to say on the matter.