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Yuzu Onsen

Nyūtō Onsen (Tsurunoyu), Akita, Japan

Tsurunoyu, deep in the Akita hills, at blue hour on a snowy evening: the long thatched honjin under a heavy load of snow, every window lit, and the milky-blue outdoor bath steaming. On the winter solstice, yuzu float in the water.

Rainy season

Deep snow · Dec–Feb

Rain a year

About 2,200 mm

Where

39.80°N, 140.80°E

How to play

Rainpost is a free daily puzzle. Every day everyone gets the same rainy place, built as a small 3D miniature. Press and hold the water to drop rain; hold longer and the ripple goes farther. Ripples push something home, and you have five drops. Solve it to collect the place’s keepsake stamp for your Rainpost Passport, much like a national park passport stamp.

In this place: Drop behind the yuzu to float it to the step by the pail.

Rainfall and seasons are approximate and describe the place’s usual rainy season, not today’s weather.

Today’s place and its keepsake stamp are free. Any other place opens as practice.