On days with heavy snowfall, there's no end to the number of foreign tourists heading to northern Kyoto Prefecture in rental cars with standard tires. At the roadside station "Kyotanba Ajimu no Sato" (Sone, Kyotanba-cho, Kyoto Prefecture), located in the Kyotanba Parking Area on the Kyoto Jukan Expressway, the information center staff are struggling to keep up.

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Articles are excerpts from reports and news in the Kyoto Shimbun. Due to automatic translation, some expressions may not be accurate.