East Japan Railway Co. ended all its train services in the Tokyo metropolitan area at 8 p.m. Sunday due to the approach of a powerful typhoon.

Central Japan Railway Co. , the operator of the Tokaido Shinkansen Line that connects Tokyo and Shin-Osaka, also suspended the day's services on the line before 5 p.m.

(Tokyo station after suspension of Tokaido Shinkansen services)

Typhoon Trami made landfall in Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan and is expected to churn toward the eastern and northern part of the country, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, as it warns of high waves, stormy winds and rain across wide areas of the regions.

Kansai International Airport in Osaka, which was temporarily crippled by a typhoon earlier in the month, was closed on Sunday and plans to reopen on Monday, the airport said.

(Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sept. 29)

As of 6 p.m. Sunday before its landfall, the season's 24th typhoon was traveling some 30 kilometers east-northeast of Cape Muroto in Kochi Prefecture, western Japan, at a speed of 50 km per hour, with an atmospheric pressure of 950 hectopascals at its center and packing winds of up to 216 kph, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

(Shin-Osaka station)