There is a marked rainy season, beginning in early June and continuing for about a month.
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These air flows are full of moisture and deposit substantial amounts of rain when they reach land. The climate from June to September is marked by hot, wet weather brought by tropical airflows from the Pacific Ocean and Southeast Asia. Two prefectures- Hokkaido and Okinawa-are composed entirely of islands. All other prefectures have coasts on the Pacific Ocean, Sea of Japan, and Seto Inland Sea, or have a body of salt water connected to them. A similar effect is found in Hokkaido, where Okhotsk Subprefecture receives as little as 750 millimetres (30 in) per year. Īs Mount Fuji and the Japanese coastal Alps provide a rain shadow, Nagano and Yamanashi Prefectures receive the least precipitation in Honshu, though it still exceeds 900 millimetres (35 in) annually. Tokyo is between 35°N – 36°N, which is comparable to that of Tehran, Athens, or Las Vegas. Because of its wide range of latitude, seasonal winds and different types of ocean currents, Japan has a variety of climates, with a latitude range of the inhabited islands from 24°N – 46°N, which is comparable to the range between Nova Scotia and The Bahamas in the east coast of North America. Japan is generally a rainy country with high humidity.
Precipitation is very high and is especially affected by the rainy season and typhoons. The climate of the Ryukyu Islands ranges from a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa) in the north to a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen climate classification Af) in the south with warm winters and hot summers.The climate of the Ogasawara Islands ranges from a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa) to tropical savanna climate (Köppen climate classification Aw) with temperatures being warm to hot all year round. Precipitation is very heavy in the south and heavy in the summer in the north. Summers are hot because of the southeast seasonal wind. Pacific Ocean: the climate varies greatly between the north and the south, but generally winters are significantly milder and sunnier than those of the side that faces the Sea of Japan.Seto Inland Sea: the mountains in the Chūgoku and Shikoku regions block the seasonal winds and bring mild climate and many fine days throughout the year.Precipitation is lower than on the coast because of rain shadow effects. Central Highland: a typical inland climate gives large temperature variations between summers and winters and between days and nights.In summer, it is a little less rainy than the Pacific area but sometimes experiences extreme high temperatures because of the foehn wind phenomenon. In the Sea of Japan, the northwest seasonal wind in winter gives heavy snowfall, which south of Tōhoku mostly melts before the beginning of spring.Precipitation is sparse however, winter brings large snowfalls of hundreds of inches in areas such as Sapporo and Asahikawa. Hokkaido belongs to the humid continental climate, with long, cold winters and cool summers.Nature appears not only in the traditional arts of poetry, painting, flower arranging and tea ceremony but is commonly referenced in aspects of daily life such as food, correspondence, clothing and architecture.īy introducing the transient beauty of the seasons of Japan through the work of Kitaoka Fumio, well-known scenes in Japanese art, hanging scrolls and famous haiku, this exhibition aims to give a glimpse of insight into Japan’s close and complex relationship with the four seasons.Japan's varied geographical features divide it into six principal climatic zones.
While the existence of four seasons is by no means unique, Japan has a very long history of maintaining a close association with nature and this is very evident in its modern culture. Japan’s position in the mid-latitude region, surrounded by sea and subject to shifting air masses, means that the country, albeit stretching a long distance from north to south, has four clearly distinct seasons. Weekdays, 10am - 5pm (Closed weekends, UK bank holidays, and on 23 February)
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