Heavy snow hits Tokyo before Taylor Swift’s show. What about her trip to Super Bowl?

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Taylor Swift resumed her Eras Tour in Tokyo Wednesday after weather officials warned her fans about unusually heavy snow that hit the city.

Could more bad weather hinder her travel to the Super Bowl in Las Vegas, if she decides to cheer on her boyfriend, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce?

The snowfall disrupted train travel, closed some highways and grounded flights out of Tokyo as officials asked drivers to avoid unnecessary travel.

Falling snow, though, didn’t stop Swifties from lining up outside the Tokyo Dome Tuesday to buy merchandise and did not hurt attendance at the sold-out show on Wednesday inside the 55,000-seat domed stadium where snow was pushed into piles near entrances. (Tokyo’s time zone is 15 hours ahead of Kansas City.)

“She’s singing Cruel Summer inside the dome while in the outside covered by snow,” one Swiftie tweeted on X, formerly Twitter.

“It’s a snow show actually! But the stadium should be completely sheltered,” tweeted a fan page before the show.

She kept the set list from last year’s shows. Swift added two surprise songs, singing “Holy Ground” from her “Red” album and “Dear Reader” from “Midnights,” which she said she’d never sung in public.

Swift, who won two Grammys on Sunday including album of the year for “Midnights,” surprised fans, though, when she said she would have announced her upcoming album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” at the Tokyo show if she hadn’t won any Grammys and a moment on stage.

When she won her first Grammy of the night Sunday, for best pop vocal album, she used her acceptance speech time to announce the album. Swifties on social media sympathized with fans in Japan who came oh so close to a memorable moment.

Swift gushed over the Japanese audience, thanking fans several times for their support. Many fans in the United States who stayed up or got up early to watch the livestream in the middle of the night commented how happy she looked.

Before she began one set at the piano, she told the crowd, “Everyone’s like, ‘why do you make so many albums?’ And I’m like, man because I love it! I love it so much! I’m having fun, leave me alone.”

The show began at about 3 a.m. Central Time — 6 p.m. in Tokyo — and ended after 3 hours and 15 minutes.

Swift’s father, Scott Swift, greeted fans and handed out guitar picks before the show. In November he traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina, for his daughter’s shows, where he met Kelce for the first time.

At that concert, Swift changed a line in her song“Karma” to tell the crowd, “Karma is the guy on the Chiefs, coming straight home to me.” After the show she ran to kiss him backstage in a moment seemingly seen ‘round the world.

The last of her four shows in Tokyo takes place Saturday evening. The time zone difference means if she leaves Japan after the show, say at midnight, it will only be 7 a.m. Saturday in Las Vegas.

By every conceivable type of math, she would have plenty of time, hours to spare, to make it to Nevada before the Chiefs face the San Francisco 49ers. Kickoff is 5:30 p.m. CT.

Swift’s team has not confirmed she will be at the game, though her fans, the NFL and the city of Las Vegas all expect her to show up.

And everyone from the Japan Embassy in Washington, D.C., to airport officials in Vegas have said she should be able to beat the clock and also find a place to park her private jet when she arrives.

As for the weather, there is no more snow expected anytime soon, and Saturday in Tokyo should be mostly sunny with a high of 54, according to The Weather Channel.