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3 weeks ago |
japan.stripes.com | Takahiro Takiguchi
Across Japan during July and August, traffic in residential areas may be affected as local residents parade in festive attire, shouting “wasshoi” through the streets carrying portable Shinto shrines - called mikoshi - on their shoulders.
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3 weeks ago |
japan.stripes.com | Takahiro Takiguchi
Kagurazaka (Photo by Takahiro Takiguchi) Located in the center of Tokyo and a short 20-minute train ride from Hardy Barracks, Kagurazaka is a fashionable shopping and dining district where traditional Japanese and elegant French feels coexist. During the samurai era, Kagurazaka was an entertainment district with a lot of geisha houses and eateries.
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1 month ago |
japan.stripes.com | Takahiro Takiguchi
hydrangea (Photo by Takahiro Takiguchi) We’ve finally headed into rainy season, aka “tsuyu” in Japanese, where not only is it raining a lot, but the heat and humidity might also be making you sweat buckets. For many, this is probably the worst of the four seasons in Japan, but I like this season because of all the beautiful flowers that bloom during it.
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1 month ago |
japan.stripes.com | Takahiro Takiguchi
Yokosuka Museum of Art (Photo by Takahiro Takiguchi) As Japan heads into rainy season and the steamy, wet climate that comes along with it, it’s easy to forget that this time of year is also host to beautiful flowers, too. A walk through your neighborhood or local park will give you the opportunity to see the many irises, lotus and hydrangeas which only come out in the summer rain.
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1 month ago |
japan.stripes.com | Shoji Kudaka |Takahiro Takiguchi
Constant gray skies and gloomy showers can only mean one thing in the so-called Land of the Rising Sun: The rainy season. It starts to fall on Okinawa in mid-May followed by mainland Japan and Kyushu Island in early June. Cold northerly and warm southerly air masses collide to create 45 to 50 days of a continuous dreary weather front of clouds dropping anything from drizzle to torrential downpours. But there’s no reason to let the bad weather get you down. Look on the bright side.
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