Weather and Culture in general

Compared to eastern USA weather, Japan is very humid and rainy in general.

Japan is well-known to have 4 distinctive seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. Since Japan is near the Asian continent and surrounded by major oceanic currents, Japan is very humid and rainy (or snow near Sea of Japan in winter-time), especially mid June ~ early July.

I'm sure you have seen many Japanese arts which all indicates THE season. Japanese loves to enjoy 風情 (fuzei) which means a culture to display the accessories per cultural events. For example, many Japanese who enjoys summer season would display 風鈴 (fu-rin) wind-bells indoors or outdoors (outside of the window).

Whenever you visit Japan, I hope you will catch fuzei of that season. It's very charming as I will explain per season on the blog.