I walked to work through a road that had turned into a river 🌊

There is a day I would call the most interesting commute of my life.

On 8 September 2026, record-breaking heavy rain fell in Nagoya, and all the transport in the city stopped.

The road in front of my workplace flooded to about below the knee, about 40cm, and it had completely become like a river.

I lived within walking distance of my workplace, so although I got soaked, I just went to work as usual.

Just for coming to work, the whole office clapped for me.

That is because the subway, the buses and the JR trains had all stopped, and almost none of the members of my team could get to work.

As for how amazing the rain was, at my younger sister’s high school, students who could not get home ended up sleeping at the school.

That day was a night shift, and because of the rain the alarms on the network equipment were incredible, so it was very busy, and I clocked out at about 12:30 the next afternoon.

A night shift is normally from 4:30pm until 9:30am the next day, with 2 hours of breaks in between, so about 15 hours of work. But on this day I worked until the point where 4 more hours would have made a full day, 24 hours.

The interesting part was that I really did walk to work through that road that had become like a river, soaking in the water.

And the thing I quietly thought was amazing was that by the time I clocked out, that flooding had already completely drained away.

I really think the drainage of Nagoya is amazing.

(Although, if the drainage of Nagoya really were that good, maybe this flooding would not have happened in the first place. Ha.)