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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.
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.
We woke up really early the next morning to watch the first sunrise of the new year, hatsuhinode. Unfortunately, with the cold weather comes incredibly dense fog. So we couldn't really see the sun at all. So we ended up visiting a shrine that was near by where we parked. It was a surprise first temple visit (hatsumode).
So here are pictures of Bundahachimangu (分田八幡宮), with the inshrined kami Homudawake no Mikoto (3rd century emperor Ōjin).
So here are pictures of Bundahachimangu (分田八幡宮), with the inshrined kami Homudawake no Mikoto (3rd century emperor Ōjin).