Which season in Japan do you like best?
I like the rainy season.
That's the best time to go walking in the parks and streets.
I love the sound of rain falling on the roofs of the houses, falling on the leaves of the trees, and falling on the water of the pond in the park.
I always take a vacation in the rainy season. The trains are less crowded then, the hotels are cheaper, and the beaches are empty.
In the Sahara Desert, most people have never seen rain. It rains so seldom there that water is more expensive than gasoline.
In the desert, the sky is blue every day. There's plenty of sunshine, and plenty of sand. But no water.
In some desert countries there's oil, though. Lots and lots of oil. But you can't drink oil, but no water. Japan has plenty of water, and no oil. But which is more important, oil or water?
I like living in Japan. how I love the rain ...


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Which season in Japan do you like best?
That's not an easy question to answer. All the five seasons in Japan are nice. But the season I like best, the season that always makes me happy, is the rainy season.
Whenever my friends want to visit Japan, I always advise them to come in June, in the middle of the rainy season. It rains all day and all night. on and off, for a month.
That's the best time to go walking in the parks and streets. You feel the wet rain falling on your head, running down your face and into your eyes, dropping inside your collar and down your neck, and going through your clothes to your skin.
I love the sound of rain falling on the roofs of the houses, falling on the leaves of the trees, and falling on the water of the pond in the park. I love to watch it falling softly, endlessly, from the grey clouds covering the city.
I always take a vacation in the rainy season, if possible. The trains are less crowded then, the hotels are cheaper, and the beaches are empty. Last year I took some lovely photos of Mt. Fuji covered in misty rain, and I have some beautiful color slides taken in Kyoto during a heavy thunderstorm.
In the Sahara Desert, most people have never seen rain. They don't know what rain feels like, or what it sounds like. They have never owned an umbrella or a raincoat. It rains so seldom there that water is more expensive than gasoline.
In the desert, the sky is blue every day. And the sun is like a white ball of fire. There's plenty of sunshine, and plenty of sand --- hundreds and hundreds of miles of sand. And that's all there is, really -- sky, sun, and sand. But no water.
In some desert countries there's oil, though. Lots and lots of oil. But you can't drink oil, but no water. Japan has plenty of water, and no oil. But which is more important, oil or water?
The answer is obvious.
And so I like living in Japan. I don't like natto, I can't eat raw fish, and I can't understand the language. But oh, how I love the rain ...