How do you say "planned suspension of service" in Japanese?

Name: Japan Cancelled Tomorrow's Trains. It Is Sunny Outside and the Notice Is Already Up.
Uploaded: 2026-08-05T02:05:00Z
Duration: 25 s
Description: Learn to say 計画運休 (keikaku unkyū) — planned suspension of service. A 30-second Japanese lesson for travelers from Kōfuku.

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Japan Cancelled Tomorrow's Trains. It Is Sunny Outside and the Notice Is Already Up.

To say planned suspension of service in Japanese, say 計画運休 (keikaku unkyū).

The sky is blue, the trains are running fine, and Japan has already announced that tomorrow this whole line stops.

計画運休 keikaku unkyū planned suspension of service

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「計画運休」。前もって知らせて、電車を止めることです。 keikaku unkyū. maemotte shirasete, densha o tomeru koto desu. 計画運休. They announce it in advance, then stop the trains.
「明日、計画運休はありますか？」 ashita, keikaku unkyū wa arimasu ka? Is there a planned suspension tomorrow?

Kanji in this phrase

計画運休: けいかくうんきゅう
運休: うんきゅう
電車: でんしゃ
前もって: まえもって
知らせて: しらせて
止める: とめる

Why this phrase

計画運休 is a planned, pre-announced shutdown. JR names the line and the exact hour it stops, a full day before a typhoon arrives, while the weather is still perfect. Tourists read it as a maybe, ignore it, and turn up to a shuttered station in the middle of the Obon travel crush. Frame this as Japan being impressively organised, not as a disaster warning: no damage footage, no storm-danger tone. Stay strictly on the beat that it is announced 24 hours early on a sunny afternoon, so it does not collapse into the existing 運休 concept.