Lonely Planet Japan is dead on in likening the Japanese to the fickle tastes of Japanese teenager girls. November is one of the more ideal times to visit Japanm but you will still need to hope for the weather to cooperate. The mornings during our time here are quite chilly, the sun peeks out for a few hours and provides an uplift to the temperature guage, then comes evening when it can be outright frigid. There is also the rain that seems to hit us on our travel days. Fresh off the 14 hour flight from NYC, we had to brave the rain looking for the hostel. The day I absent-mindedly left a bag on the shinkansen was a soaker for the entire country. The day we arrived in Fukuoka was drizzling on and off. The following day, the skies opened up and dropped buckets all over the entire Kyushu region. Fortunately, there are enough indoor attractions as there are outdoors in Japan. What better time to do engage in the local activity of shopping than on a rainy day?
