Prepare for typhoons and heavy rains

• Make sure that there is no risk of flooding near your home. (Flood hazard map)
• Make sure there are no cliffs near your home (hazard map landslide)
• Write the evacuation route from home to refuge on the map. （evacuation sites during storm and flood damage）

• Check multiple evacuation routes so that you can evacuate to two or more evacuation centers.
• Avoid roads that could be flooded by heavy rain or closed by landslide.

• Prepare items to be taken out during evacuation on a daily basis so that you can take them out immediately.
• Let's keep the items to the minimum necessary. (Radio, drinking water, flashlights, pharmaceuticals, baby supplies, etc.)

• In the event of an emergency, cherish your relationship with your neighbors on a daily basis so that you can help each other.
• Create a system that can cooperate in the community in order to protect the safety of people who are difficult to respond flexibly, such as evacuation behavior in the event of a disaster due to disability or elderly people.
• Let's talk about the cooperation system in the event of a disaster with nearby social welfare facilities in the community on a daily basis.
• disaster drill, evacuation drill, and lectures will be held to acquire knowledge about disaster prevention.
• When evacuation warning comes out, call out to the neighborhood and take the initiative in evacuating.

Please check the information frequently on the Japan Meteorological Agency website and the Yokohama City website.

• Japan Meteorological Agency website (weather information) (outside site)
• Yokohama-shi disaster prevention information

Be especially careful if you receive earth and sand disaster warning information.
Click here for landslide alert information (Japan Meteorological Agency website) (outside site)

A phenomenon of a landslide

• Pebbles fall from the cliff.
• New spring water is generated on the slope.
• The spring water is muddy.
• There is a crack on the slope.

If there is any precursor such as the above, take evacuation action as soon as possible.

In addition, there may be no time from the occurrence of a precursory phenomenon to the occurrence of a landslide, or there may be no precursory phenomenon and a landslide may occur.
If you feel danger, take early evacuation actions.

When evacuating, wear comfortable clothes and try to act with two or more people.
Evacuation means "evacuation" of "difficulty", and going to evacuation sites is not the only evacuation behavior.
If the surroundings are dark and the inundation has already begun, do not forcibly go out and consider "evacuation at home" to stay in a high place where safety can be secured at home, such as the second floor of your home.
Click here for evacuation at home (Regional Disaster Prevention Section, General Affairs Bureau Crisis Management Department)

• At the time of evacuation, avoid roads along rivers and cliffs and underground roads.
• Heavy rain may cause gutters and manholes on the road to come off, so be careful not to approach them.

Following the damage caused by Typhoon No. 19 in 2019, the Cabinet Office considered the measures for natural disaster, and the revised Basic Act on Disaster Countermeasures was enacted on May 20, 2021, and the name of the evacuation information was changed.

disaster prevention information, Cabinet Office website (external site)

In Yokohama City, when communicating evacuation warning, etc. to citizens, the following means are used.

• disaster prevention information E-mail
  We provide disaster prevention information to e-mails on registered PCs and mobile phones. You can register from the link below.
  Registration of disaster prevention information e-mail in Yokohama City

• Provision of information via "Emergency Bulletin Mail"
  Information will be delivered to mobile phones that support emergency bulletin emails in the target area. Please check the following to see if your mobile phone is compatible.
  About emergency bulletin mail
• Provision of information through data broadcasting of TV Kanagawa
• Information provision via "Homepage" and "Twitter"
  We distribute evacuation warning and others through the Yokohama City Crisis Management Office website and Twitter.
  About the transmission of disaster-related information by Twitter

• Provision of information via television, radio, etc.

• Information provision by public relations vehicles, etc.
  We carry out call by public information car or fire engine.

As for landslide, there are many cases where there is no time to spare from precursors to collapse, so if unusual precursors appear, immediately start voluntary evacuation without waiting for evacuation warning.