Photos of Rare Tokyo Snowstorm Show Neon City in White

A winter storm system has dumped snow across Japan, including the capital city Tokyo, which has not seen snow this heavy in more than a decade.

According to media reports, at least three people have died, hundreds have suffered snow-related injuries, thousands of people lost power to their homes and hundreds of flights were canceled into and out of the city of 13 million.

By Saturday afternoon central Tokyo was covered in about 10 centimeters (4 inches) of snow, the most Japan's capital city has seen since 1998, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency, which said that by Sunday some regions of the metropolitan area could be covered in as much as 50 cm ( 20 inches) of snow.

The photos below were taken for Reuters by Toru Hanai and Yuya Shino.