Japan Rainy Season

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

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.

Wow a month of rain...time to get wet!

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.

I like rain more than sunny days...

It's also rainy in the East Malaysian Peninsula over the past few weeks.

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!!

isnt that the song is from the idolm@ster video that danny posted earlier? O.o

I like rain sometimes, the humidity can mediate the weather nicely sometimes.

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

I like watching the rain, so that wouldn't stop me from visiting.

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 -_-;;

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...

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*

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! ^^;

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

rain for the majority of the month? that is awesome, Count me in!!!

windy days are far better when hanging out at a daigakkou/gakkou

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.

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?

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

danny san, when you said it rains for a month, does it just rain or does it even pours???*heavy rain*

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

Since I never really experienced a rainy season does it just rain non stop? Or does it rain for part of the day?

Hmmm not real rainy season here. Usually spring has a fair bit of rain, but this year we got snow until April

i hate raining >_< i rather it snow than rain...so depressing

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

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.

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 ^^;

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?

Must be really hard to walk on the streets, with all those umbrellas o-o

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.

I love rainy weather!
We get rain a lot here, always unexpected >.<

In Italy we've just ended a rainy june that cause many problems to the cultivation. Now it seems the summer is starting.

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. =/

Pity me, it's my third week in Japan, throughout the rainy season....

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)