As a Spaniard I thought I had a natural heat resistance, but being right now in Japan for the first time I can say the humidity is something else. Though I've missed a heat wave of 45°C in my home country so it's nice
Same!! I thought summers in my country were horrible, but MAN did Japan give it a run for its money. My country is technically just as humid, but we have WIND back home. Japan has none of that @-)
Ay, paisano... jajajaja Yo que soy de la zona de la meseta, fui en Septiembre, que se supone que hace menos calor y casi me muero con la humedad x'D En estas fechas o en Agosto no me lo quiero ni imaginar, uff...
@@LaGiniComenta Bueno, es que en el centro tenéis más sol pero menos humedad. Catalunya es más húmedo, pero no tanto como la locura que es Japón, parece la jungla
I spent my first year here without an aircon, thinking 32C couldn't possibly be that hard. Fun memory retrospectively, but I ain't gonna do it ever again.
I'll never forget when I was in Matsuyama in October 2019 and I was chatting with the lady at our hotel front desk, who was very nice, and wanted to practice my Japanese. It was about 90 degrees F out, and I used "atsui" to refer to the current weather, and she just turned to me and was like "... THIS is not hot." 🤣 That's when I understood the seriousness of a Japanese summer.
Some of my favorite scenes in Anime are those depicting summer. I've never been to Japan, and I live in a place with with some crazy heat and humidity, but that Japan heat must be intensely ingrained into the souls of the artists, because it's conveyed very well. I watch it and think, 'dang, that's a hot day!' I don't get that heavy sense of intense, overbearing summer heat too often in other media.
I'm always amazed at how they can make a scene _sound_ like a hot day. Like... you might have never visited Japan, might have never heard a cicada, might live in a country where it's rare for temperatures to go above 30... but you hear the background ambience of some of those scenes and you can practically _feel_ the sweat start forming on your brow and the strength leave your muscles.
Pro tip, you can buy them before October but have three months to activate still - so even if you have a November trip say, you can still buy it at the cheaper price
It may have been too cheap until now, the Shinkansen may be more expensive than JAL's domestic flights. If you go from Tokyo to Osaka by Shinkansen, it will cost more than 300 dollars for a round-trip reserved seat, so it's cheap even if you can ride for 7 days!
I love reading this comments section, it's reassuring to know that I'm not crazy for hating the Japanese summer with such passion. I am from Japan, but lived in several different countries (including tropical countries) and visited many, but so far Tokyo's summer is the WORST. Definitely worse in Kyoto and else where but I dare not go to those cities in the summer. I've not been to Taiwan and the summer there could be on par with Tokyo's. It's not just the high temperature, the humidity and the lack of wind, but also the way the city is built. Concrete jungle and concrete roads retain heat so well and there isn't much greenery on the streets for shade, just big parks dotted around the city. And it's supposedly still a walkable city in the summer! The only good thing about the Japanese summer is that the heat wave here doesn't cause wildfires because it's too humid.
It’s not the temperature that kills you in Japan. It’s the Humidity. It’s on another level. It sticks around well after dark too. You can get heat stroke at night. I remember when I visited Japan in August 2018, was getting from Kansai International Airport to the nearby Train station. I stepped out side the airport on to the walkway connecting the two buildings, and instantly was hit with super hot humid air. I was like what happened to the air conditioning, I feel like I was in a hot stuffy attic. Then I realized I was outside, the walkway was open air. 🥵 It was already 7:30 PM the Sun had already set.
@@miladragon Depends where you go. I also went to Tokyo, Kyoto, Hiroshima and Osaka a few weeks ago (in Autumn) and I'm from Australia, with basically no humidity resistance (north Aus is humid, south Aus is far, far less so), and it was insane in Tokyo, Hiroshima and Osaka, but fine in Kyoto. Or maybe you got lucky with weather.
@@midnight4685 I was in Tokyo and Kyoto for about a week total, Seoul for a few weeks. The other Americans there (Seoul) were practically dying from the heat, and these were a lot of people from the south, so they should have been used to it. So I don't think it was the weather.
@@miladragon To be sure, I just checked the Tokyo weather on a few of the days I was there, and the dew point was often 25 degrees celsius, listed as 'miserable' on weatherspark (less than 13 is dry, 14-16 is humid, 17-18 is muggy, 18-21 is oppressive and 21-24 is miserable on this website, other sources differ on the middle values but agree that 25+ is very unpleasant to most). One day was muggy, but the rest were a mix of miserable/oppressive. So it looks like you're just tolerant to humidity, but for most people, it sucks. I doubt it's much of a country thing, more just lucky genetics.
Coming from a place where the average annual temperature is around 30 celsius with high humidity levels all throughout, even I could attest how Japan summers are ridiculously hot. I remember visiting in July about a decade ago, and feel relieved with the "cool" winds of Manila as soon as I stepped out of the airport
Yeah, that's the thing - at least bona fide tropical places have winds to temper the heat a little bit. In Japan and South Korea? No such winds, such that the hot and humid summers are *truly* oppressive.
"feel relieved with the "cool" winds of Manila as soon as I stepped out of the airport" -- as a person from Metro Manila that's one of the more horrifying sentences I've ever read. Japanese summer must be REALLY crazy if Manila feels cool in comparison...
I'm from Malaysia, a tropical country that is pretty much around mid 20s to lower 30s year round. It's humid, it's hot, the works. Having lived in Japan a bit, I remember when I first arrived thinking "Summer can't be _that_ bad." Spoiler alert: It was that bad. I raised my flag and admitted defeat. Though my biggest gripe is the crowded morning trains.. As someone who takes public transport, the smell of everyone's damp sweat in one tight space...... 🤢🤢
I call Japanese summers, smelly season for this very reason. Thank god I’m a teacher and am now only teaching in the afternoons. The summers here are straight up oppressive and each year is worse than the last 😢
the cynicism, I imagine, is warranted-but I haven’t stayed in Japan for 2+ months since I was like 11, so I maintain the “happy child visiting her family for the summer” attitude.
I started learning japanese 2 months ago and i could understand just a few sentences in this video, but I really hope i will be able to watch your content without subtitles one day. Thanks for motivation Dogen!
@@kakahass8845 don't be hard on yourself mate, you are probably more knowledgeable than you think. I'm just a newbie who is lucky to know some words and grammar from the video, and I bet that on average your comprehension level is higher than mine
@elitedes5775 well first I went through a big bunch of japanese lessons on some website, I'll edit the comment when I find it. I learned a lot of grammar and vocabulary but also felt on the verge of burning out. So I decided to slow down the pace and right now I'm trying out jpdb (I've been using anki for English language, but jpdb claims to have superior algo so I signed up, and it also has some pre-built decks) together with watching anime (rn I'm watching hotarubi no mori e, thats why I know some words like heatstroke 熱中症). If I don't understand grammar I usually go to Japanese stack exchange or search on learning Japanese subreddit. Also yomichan extension is useful too.
Tank top & shorts mean danger of skin cancer nowadays. I'm covered from head to toe and wearing a hat but still have to use sunscreen on my face and hands. 😓
They're definitely wearing lightweight summer weaves and fabrics like linen and hopsack. They do make something for every season. It might still suck but it sucks a whole lot less than wool. That's my guess.
I've felt the opposite. The sun here isn't quite as bad as the noonday Utah sun beating down on you. HOWEVER, the 80% humidity as opposed to 20% is absolutely horrid. It hasn't been too "hot" the past two weeks this August, but it has been absolutely humid and sweaty. Talking to my family, they don't seem to make quite as big of a distinction on temperature vs humidity as I, but I'll take 104 in St. George over 89 in Tokyo!
Fun fact: Miami, FL is about the same temp and humidity as Tokyo. So if you are American and want to train for that Japan trip goto South Florida first. Oh and turn off all the central A/C when you are there.
I can attest to this. I went to Japan in late July, on purpose, and loved it. Reminded me of my childhood living in Miami, except much much safer obv. 🤣
It gets to be 50°C + in the south west (Arizona) of America, also known as americas arm pit, but I’d prefer a summer here to a summer in Japan any day! It’s the humidity that is so awful.
The 4:30 sunrise is just so true! I stayed in a ryokan and I woke up thinking it’s 7:30-8:00 only to see 4:30 on the top right corner of the TV screen.
履正社@@Radeo Radeo, I just went and checked what Tokyo Electric Power says about this, and they did a study showing the difference between 3 settings, from least electricity used to most: 1. Low power A/C with dehumidifier 2. A/C 3. Reheated-air dehumidifier . My unit only has "A/C" and "dehumidifier" settings, so not sure if these other settings are on most new units or not.
Yeah I've never been to Japan but I live in Hangzhou, China and looking at the weather (temperature and humidity) for Tokyo, it looks...fine? I have to wonder how many of the people who always complain about summer in Japan are AC-addicted Americans and Europeans who rarely experience any real amount of heat.
@@uamdbro uamdbro, Sounds like you understand the situation quite well. I will admit that the humidity in nearly all of Europe and all except the southern part of America is much lower tho.
😂 This made me, lol. I lived 4 years of summertime hell in Japan. Always had to carry a flannel, electrolyte water, an electric fan, and a change of clothes. After summer, then typhoons. Winter and Spring is the best seasons there imo.
I have really bad heat-induced migraines so those three weeks vacation in August were pretty much headaches all day every day... But nevertheless my memories of that trip are overwhelmingly positive
I haven't been to Japan...yet. But I do hope that having grown up in the deep south of the US, I would have some level of tolerance for a Japanese summer. The difference in air conditioner culture is perhaps of a bigger concern. The south may be hot but AC is practically ubiquitous at this point.
Japan resident here, I've heard from a local Texan and a local Mexican friend that their country/state of origin have NOT prepared them for the Japanese summer. On the bright side, ACs are the norm here too, at least from my experience. Which is great coming from Europe because I feel like living without an AC for most of my life has prepared me better for the heat than my friends hailing from North America who are used to air conditioning.
Native Texan here who grew up with AC everywhere except my grandma's house. I can tell you that I have lived the 90°/33°c + ridiculous humidity levels life for 33 years so I know I'll be just fine. Right now, we're hitting upper 30s every single day and have been for two months solid. I have let our house thermostat get to 81F/27C before I let it kick on to save on energy costs during summer.for years. No AC isn't bad unless you have no kind of airflow and the temps don't drop off at night kind of like what's going on right now over here.
@@endlessteatime4733 But, both Texas and Mexico have large deserts with little humidity. Thqt’s a confounding variable. It would be helpful if we knew which part of each place your friends came from for a better comparison.
Just getting back from Tokyo three things I can say: 1) it’s hot as f 暑いよ 2) it smells like s くさいよ 3) convenient stores and food is in of itself worth it コンビニと食べ物よかった〜
It always bothers me when people from other countries just compare hard numbers ("oh it's x°C? that's not too bad, it gets worse here") without keeping in mind how insanely different the same temperature can feel depending on countless factors, from more obvious ones like humidity to less thought-of ones like the construction style of houses to the availability of aircons, the cultural customs that demand certain behaviours, and so on.
i live in florida (summertime dew point is around the 70s, just as it is in japan) so i wasn't that worried about the heat until i researched and found out japan doesn't blast ac in buildings and they use public transportation - so you'll actually be getting exposed to all that heat, especially if you're just there for a trip and you want to get out and do things
But typhoon season Is summer? That’s why the weather is tolerable right now. ^^ (minus the people without power still from the wind and flood damage)(They are probably hot)
I only ever went there for two weeks in summer, don't recall it being that hot. Apparently, this July has been above normal, but on average it's similar temperatures and humidity to much of the Central and Southern parts of the Eastern United States.
@@chadrific It was either July or August. I checked their temps for this year and last, and they were on par with Louisiana to Florida type weather. Probably, fairly similar since the Gulf states all get tropical storms, very humid, and temps often in the 90s or above.
in case people watching don't understand, the left is the foreigner while the right is the japanese, since the vid is about the foreigner living in japan complaining about japan's summer.
@@SpacePopeIII i would say the final "ohashi jouzu" and "nihongo jouzu" is the final giveaway for the left being the foreigner along with him reiterating quite a few recent complaints on r/japanlife as well, but its rather intentionally ambiguous nonetheless
My first time traveling abroad truly alone, was to japan in August 2017, to travel around the country by train for 3 weeks. I don't really like the sun, and anything above 24°C at home is an unbearable heatwave (did I mention I'm Swedish?). The moment I got off the plane at Narita, I was met by a 37°C humid wall. It felt like the air was thicker. The first thing I did was stopping by a shop in Narita town to get some sunscreen, then off I went on a several hour long walk. At that point, I just accepted my fate. I don't remember the heat being that bad, and I spent pretty much every day there outside. I did however stop by a vending machine about once an hour for the entire trip to re-supply water/sports drink...
to make matters worse, the electricity in the city i was staying in was knocked out by an earthquake making the air-conditioning, elevators AND toilets inoperable!
Japanese people around me are very enjoy about summer. They go outside, they go to music festival or where ever they could get burned under the sun. Meanwhile I can't relate with them at all and just stay under aircon all days.
I honestly don't understand why so many Japanese are moving South or having more children in the South. Tohoku is the fastest shrinking region in Japan. Most young people are relocating to Kyushu. I always wondered why, given how the weather in South Japan is so unbearable during Summer. While it snows in the North, it's much better than the heat. Besides, Hachinohe and Sendai don't really get much snow given how they're on the East coast yet they're not growing in population
Flew into Tokyo for business two days ago. Qantas did a go around and did laps over Tokyo. I've been banging on about fireworks ever since. Then got to Kobe. I've been banging on about cicadas ever since. Then finished every day talking about beer. I am the Dogen gaijin basic bitch.
I wear a wool vest in a humid heat climate. Managed to get through a heatwave(115degrees with the humidity at not raining but somehow more soaked) in an outdoor training by drinking 7 liters of water a day. More wet than a rain storm on a sunny day.
Those monstrous summers in Japan taught me to pay attention to clothing styles, clothing colors, fabric types, cold foods, and other ways to minimize looking like a sweaty mess in public. Not something you usually think about in climate-controlled car culture America
When I lived in Japan there were somedays in August that were so humid and hot that I refused to go outside at all during the day and only went out later at night, when it was cooler.
Ah yes, my first trip to Japan was in August. Ha. As soon as I stepped off the plane I was hit with a wall of humidity. I don't think I really ever stopped sweating over the next 10 days. 😂
As a foreigner who just had our first summer in Japan, can confirm, all foreigners inputs 100% accurate. I thought it was exaggerated before moving. There was no exaggeration. All is fire and sweat.
This is giving me flashbacks to when I would be on the train and feel my back sweat slowly go down to my leg when I was wearing a skirt. Trying to shift around so my skin absorbs the sweat before it looks like I'm peeing myself was a real challenge. I always wear biker shorts underneath now 😅
This summer? Sweety, the real thing is about to start next week. It's already unbearable right now with furnace temp at day and 80% humidity sauna at night. It's even worse when it rains because the air becomes so thick with humidity through the roof that you feel like suffocating
One thing I've recently learned about Kanji is, even if you think you know how to read a particular word, you should still look it up, just to be sure. For example, for years, I thought 分厚い was "bun'atsui," but it's actually "buatsui." More recently, when I looked up 手繰り寄せる, at first, I thought it was "Te kuriyoseru," but it's actually "Taguriyoseru." "Sounding it out" works in English, but not in Japanese.
Yeah, it's the one thing that makes learning Japanese such a pain. Even the Japanese struggle with this, often not knowing how to pronounce names of towns they haven't heard of before.
@@thichinhphan4010 It is part of it, yes, but it goes way beyond that, considering how most kanji can have _several_ onyomi _and_ kunyomi. Honestly, I think the Japanese writing system should have been reformed a long time ago already, but I guess the system they have right now is very much a matter of national pride. Plus, hey, it's kind of cool is you're finally able to read a few sentences in a row without having to look up the kanji.
@thichinhphan4010 it's because there's a lot of phonemes in the Japanese language that don't exist in a lot of other languages, so they are difficult to perceive for a foreigner. Also as a non native English speaker, sounding out english words is also very difficult.
😂 the reason why I came in Japan only in autumn and winter or almost spring.. had enough of hot weather back home so no need to add another experience 😅
As a Spaniard I thought I had a natural heat resistance, but being right now in Japan for the first time I can say the humidity is something else. Though I've missed a heat wave of 45°C in my home country so it's nice
Same with me being from a tropical country. Japan’s hot humid summer are literally no joke
Same!! I thought summers in my country were horrible, but MAN did Japan give it a run for its money.
My country is technically just as humid, but we have WIND back home. Japan has none of that @-)
Ay, paisano... jajajaja
Yo que soy de la zona de la meseta, fui en Septiembre, que se supone que hace menos calor y casi me muero con la humedad x'D En estas fechas o en Agosto no me lo quiero ni imaginar, uff...
@@LaGiniComenta Bueno, es que en el centro tenéis más sol pero menos humedad. Catalunya es más húmedo, pero no tanto como la locura que es Japón, parece la jungla
I spent my first year here without an aircon, thinking 32C couldn't possibly be that hard.
Fun memory retrospectively, but I ain't gonna do it ever again.
Summer in Japan is why I started to hike up mountains. Unfortunately masses of other people have the same idea.
Also, black bears. Be careful and bring spray!
@@jmiquelmb
Don't worry. Black bears tend to steer clear off noisy city folks trudging up steep slopes.
@@unduloid Bring some lever action brother
@@jmiquelmb Black bears aren't aggressive. Brown bears are though.
@@VenomFT2000 Black bears have killed hikers in Japan on the last years though. They're asian black bears iirc
I'll never forget when I was in Matsuyama in October 2019 and I was chatting with the lady at our hotel front desk, who was very nice, and wanted to practice my Japanese. It was about 90 degrees F out, and I used "atsui" to refer to the current weather, and she just turned to me and was like "... THIS is not hot." 🤣 That's when I understood the seriousness of a Japanese summer.
Especially coming from a service person to savage you like that really goes to show
Looks like about the same weather as we have here in the midwest. Except they have more rain.
Some of my favorite scenes in Anime are those depicting summer. I've never been to Japan, and I live in a place with with some crazy heat and humidity, but that Japan heat must be intensely ingrained into the souls of the artists, because it's conveyed very well. I watch it and think, 'dang, that's a hot day!' I don't get that heavy sense of intense, overbearing summer heat too often in other media.
I'm always amazed at how they can make a scene _sound_ like a hot day. Like... you might have never visited Japan, might have never heard a cicada, might live in a country where it's rare for temperatures to go above 30... but you hear the background ambience of some of those scenes and you can practically _feel_ the sweat start forming on your brow and the strength leave your muscles.
It's not necessarily hot, it's just VERY VERY humid. One of my black t-shirts basically turned white due to all of the salt from my sweat...
The real reason JR pass prices are going up 70% in October: tricking foreigners into rushing to Japan before summer ends.
Pro tip, you can buy them before October but have three months to activate still - so even if you have a November trip say, you can still buy it at the cheaper price
70%?!
@@soryuushi
If true, then JR must really hate foreign tourists..
@@soryuushione week green pass is going up by 67% or thereabout. The others not exactly that much but >50% for sure.
It may have been too cheap until now, the Shinkansen may be more expensive than JAL's domestic flights. If you go from Tokyo to Osaka by Shinkansen, it will cost more than 300 dollars for a round-trip reserved seat, so it's cheap even if you can ride for 7 days!
I love reading this comments section, it's reassuring to know that I'm not crazy for hating the Japanese summer with such passion. I am from Japan, but lived in several different countries (including tropical countries) and visited many, but so far Tokyo's summer is the WORST. Definitely worse in Kyoto and else where but I dare not go to those cities in the summer. I've not been to Taiwan and the summer there could be on par with Tokyo's. It's not just the high temperature, the humidity and the lack of wind, but also the way the city is built. Concrete jungle and concrete roads retain heat so well and there isn't much greenery on the streets for shade, just big parks dotted around the city. And it's supposedly still a walkable city in the summer! The only good thing about the Japanese summer is that the heat wave here doesn't cause wildfires because it's too humid.
Wildfires are often caused by humans in other countries.
@@earlysda yes but it's more likely the fire won't spread as quickly so you are able to put it out.
毎年、9月末までこの暑さが続きますからね。夏の季節の期間が伸びてきて大変です。お体に気をつけてください。
It’s not the temperature that kills you in Japan. It’s the Humidity. It’s on another level. It sticks around well after dark too. You can get heat stroke at night. I remember when I visited Japan in August 2018, was getting from Kansai International Airport to the nearby Train station. I stepped out side the airport on to the walkway connecting the two buildings, and instantly was hit with super hot humid air. I was like what happened to the air conditioning, I feel like I was in a hot stuffy attic. Then I realized I was outside, the walkway was open air. 🥵 It was already 7:30 PM the Sun had already set.
Idk, I'm from CA so should have no humidity resistance, but I was in Japan a few weeks ago and Korea (similar weather), and it was not bad at all
@@miladragon Depends where you go. I also went to Tokyo, Kyoto, Hiroshima and Osaka a few weeks ago (in Autumn) and I'm from Australia, with basically no humidity resistance (north Aus is humid, south Aus is far, far less so), and it was insane in Tokyo, Hiroshima and Osaka, but fine in Kyoto. Or maybe you got lucky with weather.
@@midnight4685 I was in Tokyo and Kyoto for about a week total, Seoul for a few weeks. The other Americans there (Seoul) were practically dying from the heat, and these were a lot of people from the south, so they should have been used to it. So I don't think it was the weather.
@@miladragon To be sure, I just checked the Tokyo weather on a few of the days I was there, and the dew point was often 25 degrees celsius, listed as 'miserable' on weatherspark (less than 13 is dry, 14-16 is humid, 17-18 is muggy, 18-21 is oppressive and 21-24 is miserable on this website, other sources differ on the middle values but agree that 25+ is very unpleasant to most). One day was muggy, but the rest were a mix of miserable/oppressive.
So it looks like you're just tolerant to humidity, but for most people, it sucks. I doubt it's much of a country thing, more just lucky genetics.
@@midnight4685 could be haha
"Job hunting in a furnace while wearing a suit and tie." is hitting a little too close
Coming from a place where the average annual temperature is around 30 celsius with high humidity levels all throughout, even I could attest how Japan summers are ridiculously hot. I remember visiting in July about a decade ago, and feel relieved with the "cool" winds of Manila as soon as I stepped out of the airport
Yeah, that's the thing - at least bona fide tropical places have winds to temper the heat a little bit. In Japan and South Korea? No such winds, such that the hot and humid summers are *truly* oppressive.
"feel relieved with the "cool" winds of Manila as soon as I stepped out of the airport" -- as a person from Metro Manila that's one of the more horrifying sentences I've ever read. Japanese summer must be REALLY crazy if Manila feels cool in comparison...
I'm from Malaysia, a tropical country that is pretty much around mid 20s to lower 30s year round. It's humid, it's hot, the works. Having lived in Japan a bit, I remember when I first arrived thinking "Summer can't be _that_ bad."
Spoiler alert: It was that bad. I raised my flag and admitted defeat.
Though my biggest gripe is the crowded morning trains.. As someone who takes public transport, the smell of everyone's damp sweat in one tight space...... 🤢🤢
The reason why I keep deodorant body spray always in my bag 😣
same here, I visited Japan in the summer at record high, it was bad lmao. I'll take my Malaysia 34°C + humidity any day (which isn't any better tbh)
Malaysia boleh! I miss KL..
I call Japanese summers, smelly season for this very reason. Thank god I’m a teacher and am now only teaching in the afternoons. The summers here are straight up oppressive and each year is worse than the last 😢
Sorry, are you (by any chance) a Spaniard?
the cynicism, I imagine, is warranted-but I haven’t stayed in Japan for 2+ months since I was like 11, so I maintain the “happy child visiting her family for the summer” attitude.
I hope your family lives in Sapporo.
That was the best possible ending. Perfectly executed
I started learning japanese 2 months ago and i could understand just a few sentences in this video, but I really hope i will be able to watch your content without subtitles one day. Thanks for motivation Dogen!
I started learning in 2020 and I understand like a single sentence just goes to show with enough procrastinating you can achieve anything... *pain*
@@kakahass8845 don't be hard on yourself mate, you are probably more knowledgeable than you think. I'm just a newbie who is lucky to know some words and grammar from the video, and I bet that on average your comprehension level is higher than mine
@@vannya36 Thank you for the encouragement.
@@vannya36 just for curiosity, how do you study it? Like, what materials or apps do you use to learn?
@elitedes5775 well first I went through a big bunch of japanese lessons on some website, I'll edit the comment when I find it. I learned a lot of grammar and vocabulary but also felt on the verge of burning out. So I decided to slow down the pace and right now I'm trying out jpdb (I've been using anki for English language, but jpdb claims to have superior algo so I signed up, and it also has some pre-built decks) together with watching anime (rn I'm watching hotarubi no mori e, thats why I know some words like heatstroke 熱中症). If I don't understand grammar I usually go to Japanese stack exchange or search on learning Japanese subreddit. Also yomichan extension is useful too.
I'm literally doing anthropological research on Tokyoites' relationships with nature and right now 暑いですねええええええ is 99% of my research findings 😂
It’s just back and forth ねええええええ? ねええええええ 😢 ねええ絵えええ. ねええええええ
@@chadrific 絵?
Wearing tank top & shorts and the heat is still opressive. These salarymen with their suits and ties are actually build different.
They actually perspired and what you see is their corpses being propped up by their suits filled with sweat and tears.
Tank top & shorts mean danger of skin cancer nowadays. I'm covered from head to toe and wearing a hat but still have to use sunscreen on my face and hands. 😓
I noticed they wear them very loose, probably for this reason. But it must still be brutal
They're definitely wearing lightweight summer weaves and fabrics like linen and hopsack. They do make something for every season. It might still suck but it sucks a whole lot less than wool. That's my guess.
The impressive ones are the housewives in August wearing tracksuit, gloves, hat and mask to avoid getting any suntan at all……
I'm cry-laughing at this, I visited japan in summer and nearly started hallucinating in the kyouto heat
京都は８月16日過ぎたら誰もいなくなるよ｡
The heat didn’t bother me but the humidity was insane.
人体自然発火w
Currently experiencing Japanese summer for the first time. The sun hurts here more than even my summers living high up in the Rockies.
I've felt the opposite. The sun here isn't quite as bad as the noonday Utah sun beating down on you. HOWEVER, the 80% humidity as opposed to 20% is absolutely horrid. It hasn't been too "hot" the past two weeks this August, but it has been absolutely humid and sweaty. Talking to my family, they don't seem to make quite as big of a distinction on temperature vs humidity as I, but I'll take 104 in St. George over 89 in Tokyo!
Fun fact: Miami, FL is about the same temp and humidity as Tokyo. So if you are American and want to train for that Japan trip goto South Florida first.
Oh and turn off all the central A/C when you are there.
I can attest to this. I went to Japan in late July, on purpose, and loved it. Reminded me of my childhood living in Miami, except much much safer obv. 🤣
that's why i prefer working during summer and go on vacation during winter. low prices + wherever i go it's cold
Australian summers are something to experience too, 45c wilts tourists quite well.
I'd rather have 45 degree Perth summers
It's just a dry heat anyway
45¢ summers
I'd be more worried about kangaroos. But I do know how to play didgeridoo! Don't know how that will help me...
It gets to be 50°C + in the south west (Arizona) of America, also known as americas arm pit, but I’d prefer a summer here to a summer in Japan any day! It’s the humidity that is so awful.
I watch every dogen video twice. Always catch something I missed the first time 😂
The 4:30 sunrise is just so true! I stayed in a ryokan and I woke up thinking it’s 7:30-8:00 only to see 4:30 on the top right corner of the TV screen.
ボルチモアの夏に慣れてきて日本の夏は比較的にそれほどやばくなかったけどとにかく湿気が酷いっすね
All that concrete adds to the temperature. The government should be sure to mention that when they try to get people to move out of the city.
The solution to the high electricity bill is to use your AC on dehumidfier mode not cooling mode.
Wow I didn't know it can do that
Except that can cause mold!! Trust me
Radeo, you advice is exactly the opposite of reality.
@@earlysda using dry mode is more expensive than using the cooling?
understood.
will file this helpful fact somewhere in my brain for future use.
履正社@@Radeo Radeo, I just went and checked what Tokyo Electric Power says about this, and they did a study showing the difference between 3 settings, from least electricity used to most:
1. Low power A/C with dehumidifier
2. A/C
3. Reheated-air dehumidifier
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My unit only has "A/C" and "dehumidifier" settings, so not sure if these other settings are on most new units or not.
I lived in Osaka and Tokyo in the summer of 1989, it was hot and humid ; but I was from Florida so no problem.
As a foreigner from Alabama, I found Tokyo summers to be pretty pleasant actually
Here, Here!
Yeah I've never been to Japan but I live in Hangzhou, China and looking at the weather (temperature and humidity) for Tokyo, it looks...fine? I have to wonder how many of the people who always complain about summer in Japan are AC-addicted Americans and Europeans who rarely experience any real amount of heat.
@@uamdbro uamdbro, Sounds like you understand the situation quite well.
I will admit that the humidity in nearly all of Europe and all except the southern part of America is much lower tho.
😂 This made me, lol. I lived 4 years of summertime hell in Japan. Always had to carry a flannel, electrolyte water, an electric fan, and a change of clothes. After summer, then typhoons. Winter and Spring is the best seasons there imo.
I have really bad heat-induced migraines so those three weeks vacation in August were pretty much headaches all day every day... But nevertheless my memories of that trip are overwhelmingly positive
The right clothing and preparation goes a long way. Don't forget that umbrella.
日本の夏はものすごく汗をかくのでデトックスに最高です
× ビールガーデン
⚪︎ ビアガーデン
I haven't been to Japan...yet. But I do hope that having grown up in the deep south of the US, I would have some level of tolerance for a Japanese summer. The difference in air conditioner culture is perhaps of a bigger concern. The south may be hot but AC is practically ubiquitous at this point.
Japan resident here, I've heard from a local Texan and a local Mexican friend that their country/state of origin have NOT prepared them for the Japanese summer.
On the bright side, ACs are the norm here too, at least from my experience. Which is great coming from Europe because I feel like living without an AC for most of my life has prepared me better for the heat than my friends hailing from North America who are used to air conditioning.
Native Texan here who grew up with AC everywhere except my grandma's house. I can tell you that I have lived the 90°/33°c + ridiculous humidity levels life for 33 years so I know I'll be just fine. Right now, we're hitting upper 30s every single day and have been for two months solid. I have let our house thermostat get to 81F/27C before I let it kick on to save on energy costs during summer.for years. No AC isn't bad unless you have no kind of airflow and the temps don't drop off at night kind of like what's going on right now over here.
@@endlessteatime4733 But, both Texas and Mexico have large deserts with little humidity. Thqt’s a confounding variable. It would be helpful if we knew which part of each place your friends came from for a better comparison.
@@Steampunkkids yeah that's the thing, they didn't know this level of humidity before they came to Japan.
You are not prepared in the slightest. The high humidity changes everything. 104°F in dry heat is nothing compared to 95°F with 70% or more humidity.
Just getting back from Tokyo three things I can say:
1) it’s hot as f 暑いよ
2) it smells like s くさいよ
3) convenient stores and food is in of itself worth it コンビニと食べ物よかった〜
Definitely was dying last week in. Japan from the weather 🥵🥵🥵
I couldn't stop laughing at how many of these hit the nail on the head for me.
I was in Oregon a couple years ago for a heatwave that was over 45° and it did not feel as bad as Japan at 35
It always bothers me when people from other countries just compare hard numbers ("oh it's x°C? that's not too bad, it gets worse here") without keeping in mind how insanely different the same temperature can feel depending on countless factors, from more obvious ones like humidity to less thought-of ones like the construction style of houses to the availability of aircons, the cultural customs that demand certain behaviours, and so on.
i live in florida (summertime dew point is around the 70s, just as it is in japan) so i wasn't that worried about the heat until i researched and found out japan doesn't blast ac in buildings and they use public transportation - so you'll actually be getting exposed to all that heat, especially if you're just there for a trip and you want to get out and do things
the differences have been made clear. thanks dogen!
I'd love to go for the summer. It's the winter I wouldn't be caught dead in. Especially in Hokkaido.
Japan summer is killing me 🤣🤣
I'm from Texas, and we went to Japan in May a few years ago; I'll now rather risk typhoon season than summer from here on
But typhoon season Is summer? That’s why the weather is tolerable right now. ^^ (minus the people without power still from the wind and flood damage)(They are probably hot)
季節により脳内皮肉変化
I somehow always enjoy these even with no knowledge of Japanese culture 😂
The main thing to remember is that _kakigōri_ tastes really nice in the sweltering Japanese summer heat.
Having survived college in SW Misery, er, Missouri, I feel ya. ~37C with 90% humidity is AWFUL.
Some of your best work Dogen! 😂
浴衣は分かるけど、着物は夏あんま関係ないな…笑
As an Australian, i am somewhat used to hot summers.
Though it will be the humidity that will end me.
I only ever went there for two weeks in summer, don't recall it being that hot. Apparently, this July has been above normal, but on average it's similar temperatures and humidity to much of the Central and Southern parts of the Eastern United States.
What month did you come cuz that makes a difference, it definitely is higher than the south it’s southwest temps with south east humidity
@@chadrific It was either July or August. I checked their temps for this year and last, and they were on par with Louisiana to Florida type weather. Probably, fairly similar since the Gulf states all get tropical storms, very humid, and temps often in the 90s or above.
Love the simple emphatic *_蚊_*
夏が地獄なのは日本人にとっても同じだぞ
The best part of this video is you cant really tell which one is the japanese and which one is the foreigner
I naturally assumed one way. But now you say that, it could go either way.
in case people watching don't understand, the left is the foreigner while the right is the japanese, since the vid is about the foreigner living in japan complaining about japan's summer.
@@cactusfrothit can go the other way though. The foreigner has this romantic view of Japan and the native knows the truth.
@@SpacePopeIII i would say the final "ohashi jouzu" and "nihongo jouzu" is the final giveaway for the left being the foreigner along with him reiterating quite a few recent complaints on r/japanlife as well, but its rather intentionally ambiguous nonetheless
@@cactusfroth The right is also the tourists and foreigners in their 1st year in Japan.
I feel like I'm slowly becoming Japanese. "People with umbrellas no matter what weather it is."
My first time traveling abroad truly alone, was to japan in August 2017, to travel around the country by train for 3 weeks. I don't really like the sun, and anything above 24°C at home is an unbearable heatwave (did I mention I'm Swedish?).
The moment I got off the plane at Narita, I was met by a 37°C humid wall. It felt like the air was thicker. The first thing I did was stopping by a shop in Narita town to get some sunscreen, then off I went on a several hour long walk.
At that point, I just accepted my fate. I don't remember the heat being that bad, and I spent pretty much every day there outside. I did however stop by a vending machine about once an hour for the entire trip to re-supply water/sports drink...
「ビールガーデンって何？」って一瞬思ってしまったけど、ビアガーデンを敢えて間違って言ってたのかな？
to make matters worse, the electricity in the city i was staying in was knocked out by an earthquake making the air-conditioning, elevators AND toilets inoperable!
青春18切符... anyone else love these?
Japanese people around me are very enjoy about summer. They go outside, they go to music festival or where ever they could get burned under the sun. Meanwhile I can't relate with them at all and just stay under aircon all days.
I honestly don't understand why so many Japanese are moving South or having more children in the South. Tohoku is the fastest shrinking region in Japan. Most young people are relocating to Kyushu. I always wondered why, given how the weather in South Japan is so unbearable during Summer. While it snows in the North, it's much better than the heat. Besides, Hachinohe and Sendai don't really get much snow given how they're on the East coast yet they're not growing in population
Aussie vs Japanese Winter: I will get all my winter clothes when I arrive there. Surely it will be cheaper and they will have plenty of size XXL...
Flew into Tokyo for business two days ago. Qantas did a go around and did laps over Tokyo. I've been banging on about fireworks ever since. Then got to Kobe. I've been banging on about cicadas ever since. Then finished every day talking about beer. I am the Dogen gaijin basic bitch.
Of course you had to put the jouzu punch line in there at the end! Yup, that's the foreigner hahahahahahaha
Hell, I'm from southeast Texas and the Japanese summer just felt like home.
I left Texas due to the heat and humidity, I’m good fam.
Don't forget the Octoberfest in July sponsored by Heineken! So authenticでちゅ！
Was waiting for “whole body covered in rashes from constant sweat”
I wear a wool vest in a humid heat climate. Managed to get through a heatwave(115degrees with the humidity at not raining but somehow more soaked) in an outdoor training by drinking 7 liters of water a day. More wet than a rain storm on a sunny day.
I went to Japan in the summer and it is pretty much the same as Florida summers. Humid, hot, and wet
Those monstrous summers in Japan taught me to pay attention to clothing styles, clothing colors, fabric types, cold foods, and other ways to minimize looking like a sweaty mess in public. Not something you usually think about in climate-controlled car culture America
When I lived in Japan there were somedays in August that were so humid and hot that I refused to go outside at all during the day and only went out later at night, when it was cooler.
Ah yes, my first trip to Japan was in August. Ha. As soon as I stepped off the plane I was hit with a wall of humidity. I don't think I really ever stopped sweating over the next 10 days. 😂
Im from Florida so when summer starts in Japan I just think HOME SWEET HOME
As a foreigner who just had our first summer in Japan, can confirm, all foreigners inputs 100% accurate. I thought it was exaggerated before moving. There was no exaggeration. All is fire and sweat.
This videoはオール・オブ・ザ・サインズ・オブ・ビーイング日本語で書かれたhas
I liked the detail when he said "summer break". He goes lower to look like a child.
This is giving me flashbacks to when I would be on the train and feel my back sweat slowly go down to my leg when I was wearing a skirt. Trying to shift around so my skin absorbs the sweat before it looks like I'm peeing myself was a real challenge.
I always wear biker shorts underneath now 😅
Not the dolphin keychain!! xD
I was in Japan this summer and it was no big deal.
This summer? Sweety, the real thing is about to start next week. It's already unbearable right now with furnace temp at day and 80% humidity sauna at night. It's even worse when it rains because the air becomes so thick with humidity through the roof that you feel like suffocating
I visited Japan in September of 2019… never again in that season!!! 😂 I was fighting for my life!
In the summer, we just relax on the beach.
One thing I've recently learned about Kanji is, even if you think you know how to read a particular word, you should still look it up, just to be sure.
For example, for years, I thought 分厚い was "bun'atsui," but it's actually "buatsui."
More recently, when I looked up 手繰り寄せる, at first, I thought it was "Te kuriyoseru," but it's actually "Taguriyoseru."
"Sounding it out" works in English, but not in Japanese.
Yeah, it's the one thing that makes learning Japanese such a pain. Even the Japanese struggle with this, often not knowing how to pronounce names of towns they haven't heard of before.
@@unduloid Isn't that because they have two main phonetic language systems? Onyomi and Kunyomi.
@@thichinhphan4010
It is part of it, yes, but it goes way beyond that, considering how most kanji can have _several_ onyomi _and_ kunyomi.
Honestly, I think the Japanese writing system should have been reformed a long time ago already, but I guess the system they have right now is very much a matter of national pride. Plus, hey, it's kind of cool is you're finally able to read a few sentences in a row without having to look up the kanji.
@thichinhphan4010 it's because there's a lot of phonemes in the Japanese language that don't exist in a lot of other languages, so they are difficult to perceive for a foreigner.
Also as a non native English speaker, sounding out english words is also very difficult.
@@dDoodle788
Japanese phonemes are actually very simple compared to many other languages, so that's not it.
Sunrise at 4:30 in summer? That's when you know summer is starting to end.
so much existential pain in this one
My brother has been teaching in Japan since the end of March and this really is all he talks about. The heat and the Typhoons. lmao.
Ok I am now a careful enough listener to realize that the translations aren’t literal (not a criticism), achievement unlocked?
Eat shaved ice （kakigouri）🍧 to survive hot summer in Japan☀️
フルーツそうめんってなんや
😂 the reason why I came in Japan only in autumn and winter or almost spring.. had enough of hot weather back home so no need to add another experience 😅
I got 日本語上手ed last week 😩 it had been a while
おめでとう！
ビールガーデンってあんま聞いたことない。ビアガーデンじゃね
気温40℃湿度90%の破壊力たるや、夏にこの国に訪れた人は誰でも無料で路上サウナを楽しむ権利が与えられます
I’m from FL, bring it. Humidity is always a thing here
夏を連想するワード→「蝉」「入道雲」「蚊」「田舎の親戚」
てか日本の夏長くなりすぎでしょ！
春と秋がなくなりかけてます。暑がりなんでほんと辛い。
"T-shirt adhered to your back with sweat" yup my first thought about Japanese summer was that as well.
恐怖になる睡眠不足 terror induced sleep deprivation - too funny!!
0:19 I understood that reference!