Place 5 of 18

Tea Bowl

Uji, Kyoto, Japan

A tea room in Uji as the early-summer rains begin. On the tatami, an Asahi-yaki bowl of freshly whisked new-season matcha; through the round window, rain on the Uji river, the Phoenix Hall of Byōdō-in on the far bank and tea rows under shade cloth on the hill.

Rainy season

New tea and early rains · May–Jun

Rain a year

About 1,500 mm

Where

34.89°N, 135.80°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 tea stalk to bring it to the centre of the bowl.

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.