Kirk here. We experienced some heavy rain here in Kumamoto today but our friends to the north in Fukuoka, Sago and Oita prefectures got hit much harder.
A 6 PM RKK news report said that the Kyushu Expressway was closed between Fukuoka and Nankan and it wasn’t clear when it could be reopened. Also, the rain stopped Kyushu Shinkansen trains from coming to and leaving Kumamoto for a while this morning.
