Japanese climate

Most of Japanese land belongs to humid subtropical climate and rest are humid continental climate. Japanese climate is strongly affected by monsoon. Climate of the winter at the coast of Japan sea is different from that of Pacific ocean. In the winter, the coast of Japan sea snows very much because of monsoon (Siberian High). In contrast to that, the coast of Pacific ocean seldom snows.

Japan has four seasons and we can enjoy all these season's landscape and foods.

I like fall the best because of calm climate and the best season to eat many kinds of food. But typhoons come in that season and sometimes damage agriculture, economy, buildings and so on.

I think the worst weather in Japan is a summer, especially metropolitan area (Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka). There isn't much difference of daytime's temperature between metropolitan area and countryside, but it's still hot and humid even the midnight in the metropolitan area. I can't sleep without using air conditioner.

Compare to the above, I think Sendai is the best city to live through the year. That fact isn't famous even for Japanese but that city is not too hot in the summer and not too cold in the winter. I lived in there for 2 years and now I think that city is the best. The earthquake and the tsunami affected coast of Sendai in this March. I hope there will recover from disaster and be the famous city for good to live.