Japan’s typhoon season runs from June through October, with the most active period concentrated in August and September. Typhoons — tropical cyclones that develop in the northwestern Pacific and track northward through the Philippine Sea toward Japan — are a normal and recurring feature of Japanese life, and Japan has developed extraordinary infrastructure for managing
Japan’s autumn foliage season — koyo (紅葉), the turning of maple, ginkgo, and beech leaves into the extraordinary red, orange, and gold palette that transforms Japan’s temple gardens, mountain valleys, and city parks each October and November — is the second great seasonal travel surge in the Japanese tourism calendar. Where sakura concentrates in a