(AFP) Powerful typhoon Mawar slammed into central Japan early Friday, bringing heavy rain and fierce winds that left at least one person dead and four injured and disrupted transportation, officials said.

Television footage showed swelling rivers flooding houses in Miyagi, some 300 kilometers (186 miles) north of Tokyo, and nearly half of a school gymnasium’s roof being blown off in Kanagawa, south of Tokyo.

Packing winds of up to 108 kilometers (67 miles) an hour near its center, the typhoon was moving northeast after just missing Tokyo and hitting Chiba, 50 kilometers (30 miles) east of the capital, the Meteorological Agency said.

Mawar returned to the Pacific coast several hours later and was moving at a speed of 20 kilometers (12 miles) an hour, although the agency had yet to downgrade it from a typhoon.

Mawar cut power to more than 3,500 households in Chiba overnight, leading to the evacuation of 54 people into a public school, but power was restored in the morning and residents returned home.

In Shizuoka, 150 kilometers (93 miles) west of Tokyo, a 55-year-old man died late Thursday after falling from the roof of his house. Two other men in the prefecture were also slightly injured in the storm, police said.

One person was lightly injured in Chiba while a train driver suffered minor cuts when his train hit fallen trees in Gumma, 100 kilometers north of Tokyo, police said.

The typhoon flooded 30 households and triggered seven landslides in Chiba and Shizuoka. It dumped 24 inches of rain in Hakone, a hot-spa resort west of Tokyo, from Thursday to early Friday.

A total of 89 flights, including eight international flights, were cancelled on Thursday and Friday due to the typhoon, affecting more than 12,500 passengers, airlines said.

On Thursday, the typhoon halted Japan’s bullet train services, affecting some 60,000 people, a spokesman for Central Japan Railway Company said.

It was the 11th typhoon of the season and the second to hit Japan’s Pacific coast.

In late July, Typhoon Banyan drenched eastern Japan with rain but, like Mawar, failed to hit Tokyo. But that typhoon also disrupted traffic, cancelling 43 domestic flights.