Lunar New Year Japan 2020

Let s celebrate 2020 chinese new year and spring festival in tokyo.

Lunar new year japan 2020. The holiday occurs in a 12 year cycle with each year corresponding to a different animal as a symbol. This year lunar new year falls on january 25 and it s the year of the rat. The first day of january became the official new year s day since five years after the meiji restoration.

Tokyo is not only a prefecture of japan but also its capital. Tokyo is most populous metropolitan area in world. Unlike chinese korean or vietnamese new year japanese celebrate their new year on january 1.

History says until 1873 during the meiji era 1868 1912 celebration of the japanese new year was based on the chinese lunar calendar. Do people in japan celebrate lunar new year. You might have not decided the place of new year celebrations.