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The story
Tokyo’s rain has kept falling, and 5ch lit up over reports that the city is just 3 days from breaking the all-time record of 33 consecutive rainy days. The record, reportedly flagged by a weather forecaster on X, stirred memories of the 3-week rainy streak back in 2017 and worries about crop damage and rising rice prices from the lack of sunlight. At the same time, some posters cast doubt on the images being shared, asking “wasn’t it sunny some of those days?” and “isn’t this AI-generated?” The thread veered from a Kansai-vs-Kanto rivalry into a full-blown tangent about the cost of living, with users asking “why does anyone even live in Tokyo?” given how poor the value for money is — turning a simple weather story into a much bigger discussion.
Apparently just 3 days away from the all-time record of 33 straight days of rain
Source: imgur.com / Original post here
What people said
I remember it vividly.
Ugh, here we go again — "Kansai had it bad so Kanto should too"?
Fukuoka City barely gets rain even by Kyushu standards.
https://x.com/makotokawazu/status/2103494359329202232?s=46
A weather forecaster is also saying it's a 30-day rain streak record, so it must've rained somewhere at some point.
Wait, is it seriously a consecutive-days record?
Moonlighting as both a weather forecaster and a comedian? Sounds rough, in more ways than one.
Isn't this AI-generated?
Tokyo/Kanto gets rain literally every day except early May and winter.
I only notice because I moved here from Kansai —
people who've always lived here probably have no idea.
It's not THAT bad
Nobody's buying that.
This is insane, lol
Is this London now?
A record unseen since the Edo period, lmao
21 straight days of rain — even the rainy season doesn't usually pull that off.
Sounds like a bad harvest.
Wholesalers: "Cha-ching."
It's from the Tokyo observation station in Kitanomaru Park, Chiyoda Ward.
Or does nobody care enough to even check?
Kanagawa's got Hakone, so with localized sudden downpours factored in, it's probably got an insane streak of its own.
It was drizzling where I am.
Instead you get a boom in musty-damp-laundry-smell guys.
why does everyone even live in Tokyo?
There's no upside, and the cost-to-value ratio is terrible.
Forget the "cost" part, the "performance" part is the best in Japan
It's a big city with everything, so it's convenient.
Good "performance" alone doesn't cut it
Fukuoka, Sapporo, Hiroshima, Sendai — those are the places with real cost-performance
If you're pulling in around 10 million yen a year, a regional city works just fine, no?
You mean the lowest in Japan, right? Wrecking your whole life just to pay rent.
Background and Key Points of This Story
The consecutive-rainy-days record isn’t an official Japan Meteorological Agency announcement — within the thread, the basis cited was a personal post on X by a weather forecaster. The observation point appears to be the AMeDAS station in Kitanomaru Park, Chiyoda Ward, so it’s easy to overlook that this isn’t describing “all of Tokyo,” including areas like Tama or the Izu Islands. Also, “consecutive rain days” is a statistical definition where even a brief shower counts as a full rainy day, which can differ from the gut feeling of “pouring down every single day.” The thread saw doubts raised about whether the record is even real (is the image AI-generated? were some of those days actually sunny?), worries about crop damage and rice prices from the lack of sunshine, and it even veered off into a cost-of-living debate over “why live in expensive, low-value Tokyo at all” — pushing the discussion well beyond the weather record itself and into a debate about urban living.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “[Sad News] Tokyo Achieves 30-Day Consecutive Rain Record wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww”.
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