After spending their New Year’s holidays out of town, people continued to jam air and train services back into Tokyo on Sunday, although traffic jams on highways were not as severe as on Saturday.
Airlines reported almost all their Tokyo-bound flights were fully booked, and Japan Airlines said the number of standby passengers at Fukuoka airport waiting for Tokyo-bound JAL flights swelled at one point to around 350.
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