{"id":76130,"date":"2007-06-25T19:06:45","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T10:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/modules\/xpressme\/?p=33"},"modified":"2007-06-25T19:06:45","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T10:06:45","slug":"rainy-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/seasonal-topics\/rainy-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainy season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Japan, the rainy season lasts from mid-June to mid-July. This year&#8217;s rainy season started on 6\/14 in Matsumoto, according to the meteorological agency.<br \/>\nIt is very humid in this season, but, Matsumoto is one of the places with the highest percentage of sunny days in the year in Japan.<br \/>\nEnjoy summer in Matsumoto!<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/seasonal-topics\/rainy-season\/\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/seasonal-topics\/rainy-season\/\" data-text=\"Rainy season\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Japan, the rainy season lasts from mid-June to mid-July. 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