{"id":103018,"date":"2024-06-25T13:31:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T04:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voyapon.com\/?p=103018"},"modified":"2024-06-27T14:25:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T05:25:32","slug":"best-and-the-worst-of-summer-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voyapon.com\/best-and-the-worst-of-summer-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Hot Hot: The Best and The Worst of Summer in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Congratulations! You’ve worked hard all year and are ready for your well-earned summer vacation, so you booked your non-refundable trip to Japan in July, and what? Now you’re scanning Reddit and Facebook and hearing that summer in Japan is the worst season to visit. Please, say it ain’t so!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, I have some good and bad news for you. First, the bad news: some describe the summer weather in Japan as “uncomfortable” and others as “a moist version of hell.”<\/strong> There’s no getting around it \u2014 Japanese summer is hot and wet, a condition shared up and down the archipelago almost without exception. But that is not to say summer in Japan has no redeeming qualities, as the Japanese people have had centuries to develop traditions to compensate for the unpleasant weather.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Summer in Japan is best broken down into its two acts. The first act is what’s known as rainy season or tsuyu<\/em> \u6885\u96e8<\/strong>, where there is a chance of rain nearly every day for weeks, followed by the second act, which is the hot and humid season that locals and visitors alike find particularly uncomfortable to bear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Late April and early May in Japan are pleasant days, with many warm spring days with cool nights and relatively low humidity. That begins to change in late May and early June, when the cold air from continental Asia collides with warm air flowing up from the South Pacific right over Japan, starting the unstable rainy season. Tsuyu season starts a bit earlier in Okinawa, gradually creeping eastward, first affecting Southern Kyushu in late May and up to Northern Tohoku by mid-June.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Rainy season lasts from a few weeks to over a month, depending largely on global weather patterns, which are increasingly unpredictable in the modern age of global warming. The first sunny day at the end of rainy season is often celebrated falsely; akin to celebrating being liberated from a frying pan, something much worse has arrived.<\/p>\n\n\nWhen is the Summer Season in Japan?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n