Writing about the rainy season is a bit like tap-dancing about blancmange. The reader might make the imaginative leap required to understand that it’s milk or cream and sugar thickened with gelatin, cornstarch or Irish moss, often flavored with almonds and that it’s usually set in a mould and served cold, but he still hasn’t tasted it.
Therefore what better way to bring you the sights and sounds of Kyoto during the rainy season, we reasoned, than to take our video camera on a little walk during a flash summer shower? As you can see in the video the rain came in sideways in sheets thick as lead, the thunder rolled, the rooftops reverberated and my jeans were wet up to the shins within seconds of leaving the house.
For the smells and to experience the humidity you’ll just have to come here for yourself. But in the meantime, we hope this give you a little idea of why the weather in June and July in Japan really keeps you on your toes and hence why the 100 yen umbrella market is so huge here.
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