To celebrate the holiday, I invited one of my ALT friends to come over for a proper Japanese celebration. We started off the night with Toshikoshi Soba and watching the NHK Kouhaku Uta Gassen. I've also added my photos here of the zenzai soup and traditional new year's sweets that we ate on January 1st.
So here are pictures of Bundahachimangu (分田八幡宮), with the inshrined kami Homudawake no Mikoto (3rd century emperor Ōjin).