When the temperature outside is a perfect 22 degrees, but they start blasting the heat inside the busses and trains.
Thought I could take a nap in my commute but it’s a sauna inside the bus, I opened the window and some obasan looked at me like I’m a devil.
市バス more like shitty bus amirite.
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I saw someone wearing a coat suitable for winter when it’s 25 degrees outside yesterday. You gotta assume these people aren’t healthy if they’re comfortable wearing that when it’s still hot outside.
I am seeing the sweaters and coats as well. Just crazy to me. Of course, even more crazy is seeing sweaters and layers in the middle of summer. I guess Japanese people are always cold, or just don’t care about being hot.
Fashion > Comfort.
We went from high 33C to high 23C in the space of a week. Normally I wouldn’t be one to wear a sweater when it’s 23 C outside, but so help me it feels freezing in short sleeves.
As for 市バス, the rules declaring Oct 1 to be the start of the heating season are probably a carryover from the 1980’s, back when autumn was actually a thing.
bus air conditioning getting so cold i need to pull off my canada goose
Friend I know your pain. There’s a solution. It doesn’t have to be this way. Go to Bic Camera. Go to the AC section. You can get a neck fan with metal plates that use the Peltier Process for cooling. Doesn’t require sweat/evaporation to keep you cool. Most of them require a usb battery. Like 3600 yen. I can drink all night in the hottest, tiniest bar now. I’m immune to the heat thanks to this.
Japanese air conditioning and heating is based on time of year, rather than actual temperature. Most offices does that as well. It can be 40C outside but if it us November you can bet 90% of buildings will have heating on rather than air conditioning.
As an American living in Japan I have to say that Japanese people received some Skyrim-style racial trait giving them resistance to weather.
The co-op near my station is *freezing*, parts of it must be under 16 degrees, I big hairy guy and even I’m shuddering. But everyone else I see is just casually strolling around.
My body isn’t equipped for Japanese temperatures.
Yes and frustratingly, this will go on throughout winter. Outerwear in (probably) 27C temperature inside the trains would always give me nausea and hot flashes.
I’m Scottish so this weather is about the height of summer for me back home. Love it.
I was absolutely dying about 2 weeks ago! I hate how it changes so suddenly, though. I am so ready to wear winter clothes but that’s probably not happening for another month.
Also another week or so until we start seeing every business woman in a beige trench coat.
it’s time for it to be cold.
….it *isn’t* but that doesn’t matter…it’s *time* damnit!
Just went into a conbini from a perfect 22 outside and it was like 30 inside the conbini.
It was around 16 last night and I got into a bus which had their aircon set to cool mode.
Am I weird or everything else is
Y’all ever been to Yodobashi Camera during the Winter? They go completely fucking unhinged with the heater over there
Japanese culture 102 – weather:
Suzushii = Samui
When it comes to weather they don’t have a ちょうど良い。 it’s either 暑い or 寒い
I’m enjoying it actually, can finally sleep without needing the AC on or forgetting to turn it on and waking up in a pool of my own sweat at 3am.
The train line I take is being sensible and not blasting the heating yet thank god.
I was cold driving around in my scooter also considering wearing my wintercoat soon …
Every year about this time, I get someone looking at me like I am either brave or poor for wandering about in shorts.
Oh and if my wife reads this, no I do not need an extra quilt yet.
Yep.. and when you go to a nice restaurant and they have the heating up at 28..
For once I agree. It’s the perfect outside temp. I can’t stand that people are using heater’s the minute the humidity is gone.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed this. Japanese peoples relationship to temperature is so strange. I remember on one hand, coming into work with short sleeves in March because it was 65 degrees out and my coworker was shocked I didn’t feel cold when it was a nice day outside. On the other hand, during the peak of summer, I noticed some students quitely begin to bring jackets or coats to my class because I was running the air conditioner at 72 degrees. Because it was over 90 outside. I don’t get it.
Ever since I moved here I think I’ve become used to things being 15 degrees to 30 degrees regardless of what I’m wearing
Yes this!! I’ll never understand why they love turning the heat up to 300 in the colder months when we are already acclimatized and dressed for cold weather. It’s horrible.
Australian here, it’s getting a bit chilly. I’m on the other side of the fence for this sub. All the bitching from overweight foreigners about summer; “what cooling jacket should I buy?” “How do you work in the heat?” Yup it’s already wetsuit time, I’m already rocking my 3mm when I go surfing these days.
I’m literally on a train home right now and I had to take my hoodie off because it’s so hot. I’ve been living here for 10 years, but I still can’t figure out HOW these people are fine with still wearing their jackets and fall coats! 😂
Kanto has two seasons, Winter and Summer. I swear the longest spring or fall I ever felt was 2 weeks. Its just piss ass hot then bam frosty the snowman
Vending machines, too. Cycled to the station, then got my usual coffee as I always do to help cool down. Motherfucker came out hot. My fault for not checking, but still.
I’m in northern Yokohama, I mostly use 東急バス (Tokyu bus) and they’re still having the windows open,
not getting blasted by heat yet thank God 😆
honestly, i just like the winter in japan because it isn’t cold enough to wear a sweater but too cold for a t shirt and i have this hoodie I’ve been wearing for 8 years as a seasonal tradition ( i wash it daily ), i dont even wear a jacket, a single hoodie, dress pants and sandals and i be chilling
It was nice to go to Uniqlo today and look at clothes that I could actually wear today.
My wife and I are traveling in Japan right now (we live in Alberta Canada), and everytime we go into a department store we’re like “why is it so hot in here?”. We took the Shin from Hakodate down to Kyoto the other day and were fanning ourselves with the back of seat pamphlets. It was nuts.
Ginza Line? More like Sauna line
Japanese people wear clothes weirdly. I saw someone in the gym wearing a hoody and sweatspants when it is 35 degrees and japanese girls wearing mini skirts during winter. Damn
Saw a few people wearing light down jackets this evening. Seems a little premature.
Last week I saw a guy on the morning train wearing one of those heavy duty rain jackets. Sir it’s like 26 degrees and partly cloudy, where are you getting “torrential downpour” from? People are weird.
Trying to enjoy this weather as much as I can, it’s like perfect outside now a lil warm with the cool breeze and the chill at night 😍 just wish it started earlier maybe around start of September 😂
I’m sitting in my apartment now with two heaters on LOL. Below 23°C-ish I start needing a jacket.
I enjoyed the warmth in those buses and metros, so yes you look like a devil.
many people caught a cold already.
My sinus has been giving me pain for 3 days already. I hope it will adjust to the dryness of the soon to come winter.
lol I got ribbing from all our Japanese dog friends at the park yesterday, for wearing shorts still. 😅