New Year In Japan Reddit

If you re interested in shrines and have a lot of patience meiji jingu shrine patrons line up for hours to pray and throw their 5 yen coins in the offering box.

New year in japan reddit. We ve never been before so pretty nervous. The japanese new year celebration is called shogatsu and new year s day is called gantan. If you re doing a presentation about oshogatsu in japan then you must know about hatsumode.

I m going to japan towards the end of this year 22nd january 4th january i plan on travelling to kyoto tokyo and either osaka or nagoya. Current plan is to spend dec30 jan3 in tokyo then head to kyoto until the 7th hiroshima on the 8th osaka on the 9th 11th and back to tokyo on the 12th until our flight back on the night of the 16th. Also the western 24 hour would be implemented and the 12 daily marks traditionally used in japan abolished as well.

Once december 26 th hits the christmas decorations disappear while the new year s decorations miraculously appear instead. Then suddenly there are so many illuminations throughout the cities that you can even forget at times that you are in japan. In japan after the 25th of december it s as if christmas never happened.

Just as it is in dozens of countries jan. And the government boasted the new calendar is only off by one day every 7000 years. New years here is a family holiday.

Are there any people who live in japan and want to celebrate new year with drinking outside. Planning a trip with my boyfriend for the end of the year dec 30 jan 16 looking for advice. Up until the christmas time japan doesn t really have the typical new year mood in the air yet.

I ve seen few people organizing a new year s eve in golden gai in shinjuku but the thread became quiet. I ve talked to my japanese teachers read online and looked at old reddit forums and i ve gotten different answers. Reddit s new year in tokyo.