. >> reporter: the kumamoto disastster creatated much hards for people in the area.ut the city is working to restore people's hope and local pride one stone at a time. >>> tokyo started off the week on a wet note. sayaka mori has more in this hour's weather outlook. >> it's been raining all day today. rain will likely continue into the evening hours and winds will continue to effect the tokyo area. some areas had about 100 millimeters of rainfall about 50% of the monthly rainfall for june. that is quite a lot and more rain is expected for the next several hours. we are in the rainy season. the rainy season started in okinawa last month and spread to western japan and central japan and then today the rainy season has started. that was a day earlier than average. the islands don't have the rainy season so most of japan is actually under r rainy season righnonow. now, the heavy rainfall will likely move away from thee toky area by tonight so we are looking at sun coming out as we go into tomorrow in tokyo. the region will continue to see rainfall into tuesday. the rain