Sun 2008/06/22 15:12
The annual rainy season known as "Tsuyu" [梅雨] started this week and lasts for about a month. Folks who ended up booking tickets to Japan this week will enjoy rain pretty much every day. Folks who have not booked and dont like rain every day then wait until mid July to be safe. But then it stars to become very hot indeed. A masked sailor fuku girl celebrates the start of Tsuyu below - title of the video was "Tsuyu has started."
Posted on Sun 2008/06/22 15:12 by
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Raven, AMV & MAD maker, Otaku
ouch a month? thats going to be a pain seeing rain all day when you were planning on going to places you want that you wish didnt get wet
(ID #219175) Posted on 2008/06/22 15:19
it's only a month, it rains here in Malaysia almost all the time..haha
(ID #219542) Posted on 2008/06/23 02:38
Raven, AMV & MAD maker, Otaku
wow. in malaysia all the time? lol thats got to be annoying, but at least the view is still beutiful when sun is shining with clear blue skies
(ID #219789) Posted on 2008/06/23 11:21
Here, it rains during all the summer, but it's not the problem, after the rains comes the hurricanes season XD THAT is the problem.
(ID #219831) Posted on 2008/06/23 12:44
annoying sometimes, but great when the weather gets too hot =)
(ID #220071) Posted on 2008/06/23 21:10
I like the transparent umbrellas. Seems to be very popular in Japan. Got one back for 500 yen. But it spoils easily. Saw a lot of broken umbrellas thrown at the side of pavements in Japan.
(ID #219176) Posted on 2008/06/22 15:19
IT engineer
Ya its popular here cos you can get it from 100yen shop :P The wind are just so strong sometime that why it break easily and also cos material used is... BTW Singapore is written as シンガポール :)
(ID #219217) Posted on 2008/06/22 16:11
Wow a month of rain...time to get wet!
(ID #219185) Posted on 2008/06/22 15:34
Doesn't get rainy all that much here. Plus I'd prefer rainy over super intense furnace-like summer heat. I'll keep this in mind when I plan my trip to Japan, though.
(ID #219196) Posted on 2008/06/22 15:44
Part trooper, part -timer, 100% loser...
I like rain more than sunny days...
(ID #219209) Posted on 2008/06/22 15:59
Rain is good in this region. Especially when its hot like an oven on sunny days...
(ID #219410) Posted on 2008/06/22 23:39
Hangmen13 in Sabah, Malaysia, but now studying in KL (still the same country) (Registered on 2007/04/21 22:31)
Aimless Traveler
It's also rainy in the East Malaysian Peninsula over the past few weeks.
(ID #219213) Posted on 2008/06/22 16:06
University Student.
Out of the 10 days that I was in Japan the week ago, it only rained on 2 days, but not wanting to buy an umbrella, me and my friend just walked in the rain to visit the sights. Everybody was just looking at us as if we're retarded or something. Anyway, Umbrellas are over-rated! Walking in the rain is the best!!
(ID #219220) Posted on 2008/06/22 16:14
COMPENG/SWENG Student
I agree... What is wrong with getting wet; we all take showers and/or baths (I hope). People always get annoyed when I walk slowly through the rain while they're running. I hope it is not too rainy while I am over there for nine days in mid-July.
(ID #219229) Posted on 2008/06/22 16:29
It's rare to see people here using umbrellas. Everywhere I go you either jump in your car or hop in a cab. When you have one everyone kinda looks at you weird.
(ID #219648) Posted on 2008/06/23 06:43
HMMaster (Registered on 2007/09/04 00:52)
isnt that the song is from the idolm@ster video that danny posted earlier? O.o
(ID #219234) Posted on 2008/06/22 16:34
Chef, Full fledged Otaku, Full time Observer.....
the song is actually sang by KOTOKO... title is "princess bride"...
(ID #219530) Posted on 2008/06/23 02:14
JR. College Student
I like rain sometimes, the humidity can mediate the weather nicely sometimes.
(ID #219253) Posted on 2008/06/22 17:01
Dropping computers, starting all over again at Journalism
Dunno where I heard this song before... but either it was other version, or it was a sped up one. It rains a lot here where I live, and it's usually a very cold rain... so temperatures will drop when it rains. Had to re-wash all my clothes some 3 times this year already because it was very sunny when I decided to wash them, and when I finally hang them to dry and get out to do something, it starts raining. :P
(ID #219259) Posted on 2008/06/22 17:05
The song in the video is a slowed version of KOTOKO's song "Princess Bride!", theme for the game with same name. Demo movie here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLSFxQijz6U
(ID #219360) Posted on 2008/06/22 21:04
I like watching the rain, so that wouldn't stop me from visiting.
(ID #219264) Posted on 2008/06/22 17:11
software manager
don't really understand what the song/dance has to do with tsuyu, but i like it. ^_^ another thing that makes me reconsider any plan i come up with for working in japan... rain + warm weather not my cup of tea -_-;;
(ID #219267) Posted on 2008/06/22 17:13
working to pay for figures etc.
I usually go in November, and it always manages to rain on at least one day. Carrying a folding umbrella is a good idea. When I went first time it was rainy season and the rain was like a warm shower, nothing like the cold driving rain you get here...
(ID #219273) Posted on 2008/06/22 17:19
bleh~ rain T_T makes me lazy i went to morning glory the other day (its not what you think it is xD) and we bought this really cool otaku umbrella black ad white checkers with lace on the edge *thumbs up*
(ID #219307) Posted on 2008/06/22 18:11
A warning to those yet to go to Japan, if you are tall (I am 6'2") then most Japanese people tend to hold their umbrella's at one of two heights in relation to you: Throat Eyes Be careful! ^^;
(ID #219337) Posted on 2008/06/22 19:55
Good to know. Thanks
(ID #219649) Posted on 2008/06/23 06:44
Mechanical Engineering student
I don't mind getting wet on the rain. Carrying an umbrella can be such a hassle. All I need is a jacket and I'm ready to go! x_x
(ID #219348) Posted on 2008/06/22 20:25
Filmmaker
rain for the majority of the month? that is awesome, Count me in!!!
(ID #219351) Posted on 2008/06/22 20:38
windy days are far better when hanging out at a daigakkou/gakkou
(ID #219355) Posted on 2008/06/22 20:48
It doesn't seem like a problem to me at all since where I live, we have the chance to observe all the seasons from snow to damn hot days to rainy ones in their respective periods in a year. But my favourite is the rain among them all.
(ID #219361) Posted on 2008/06/22 21:05
I still dont understand why umbrellas are so popular in such a congested, modern country like Japan. Its most annoying having razor sharp umbrella corners flying by your face when youre trying to cross a congested area! Surely they would use their famous ingenuity to come up with waterproof materials, space age hoods or something else?
(ID #219376) Posted on 2008/06/22 22:01
.NET/Web Developer
plastic bubble would be nice. ^^ Wish they'd make one.
(ID #220980) Posted on 2008/06/24 20:37
Polytechnic Senior, Bronze Lifesaving Trainee, Mech Designer, Pokemon Indexer.
It's been sunny and baking HOT! for the past two weeks on this oven of an island... I give my thanks to whichever god sent a heavy shower over here last night XD
(ID #219497) Posted on 2008/06/23 01:48
Chef, Full fledged Otaku, Full time Observer.....
danny san, when you said it rains for a month, does it just rain or does it even pours???*heavy rain*
(ID #219543) Posted on 2008/06/23 02:38
student
I would hate to be in Japan during this time then. I already see enough rain here throughout the year! The last thing I want to see when I go somewhere else is rain u_u
(ID #219595) Posted on 2008/06/23 04:15
Since I never really experienced a rainy season does it just rain non stop? Or does it rain for part of the day?
(ID #219652) Posted on 2008/06/23 06:47
Hmmm not real rainy season here. Usually spring has a fair bit of rain, but this year we got snow until April
(ID #219666) Posted on 2008/06/23 07:31
i hate raining >_< i rather it snow than rain...so depressing
(ID #219678) Posted on 2008/06/23 07:51
But raining is cool, you can stay in your home and watch the football in bed while drinking a coffee and look to the windows all tearing the rain and people running in the outside.
(ID #219833) Posted on 2008/06/23 12:47
Zen in Zjhentohlauedy Home Planet. aka. somewhere in the Philippines (Registered on 2008/06/10 23:35)
Student of LIFE!
rainy days aren't fun, especially here in the philippines, flooding and stuff is really destructive and irritating. light showers are good once in a while though
(ID #219761) Posted on 2008/06/23 10:22
I rains whenever it feels like it here, we don't really have a defined 'rainy season'. It would be kinda weird for me to see it rain all the time for a month. But then of course we have 6 months of snow and bitter cold, which would probably be weird for a lot of people.
(ID #219762) Posted on 2008/06/23 10:23
part time illustrationist, doll clothing seamstress
When I was still schooling, I remember trying to catch a cab during a rainy day, cars zoom past and splashed water on already drenched me =_= I had to swing my umbrella forward to stop from getting splashed ^^;
(ID #219780) Posted on 2008/06/23 10:59
Engineering research
Rain is good, its means its not so blardy hot. I'm heard many legends of Japanese summers, really so bad? As compared to an equatorial country?
(ID #219867) Posted on 2008/06/23 13:36
Computer Science Student
Must be really hard to walk on the streets, with all those umbrellas o-o
(ID #219956) Posted on 2008/06/23 16:10
I remember my sister mentioning Tsuyu before we headed off to Tokyo 2 weeks ago. Funny enough Hong Kong was raining pretty hard for the last two weeks until Tsuyu comes.
(ID #219971) Posted on 2008/06/23 16:40
Graphic Design student | Receptionist | Otaku
I love rainy weather! We get rain a lot here, always unexpected >.<
(ID #220061) Posted on 2008/06/23 20:53
In Italy we've just ended a rainy june that cause many problems to the cultivation. Now it seems the summer is starting.
(ID #220202) Posted on 2008/06/24 00:26
オタク all day long
It's good that you guys have "Tsuyu" season in Japan. We only have "Sunny" season. We have like 300/365 days of rain in Vancouver. =/
(ID #220430) Posted on 2008/06/24 05:11
Pity me, it's my third week in Japan, throughout the rainy season....
(ID #224149) Posted on 2008/06/28 11:25
Student in PR & Marketing
I should be grateful. In my country we have all 4 seasons : sunny, hot, rainy and full of snow (or so it was before the global warming)
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