{"id":347,"date":"2012-01-01T11:49:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T11:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpunk.net\/sushibits\/?p=347"},"modified":"2012-06-15T11:36:13","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T11:36:13","slug":"new-year-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpunk.net\/sushibits\/new-year-in-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"New year in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy 2012, the year of the Dragon!!<\/p>\n

We travelled to Tokyo to celebrate the new year! We took the shinkansen, the fast bullet train, and bought a nice ekibento, which is a lovely little lunchbox especially made for train travel.<\/p>\n

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Kyoto and Tokyo have no snow, but the area in between was completely white!<\/p>\n

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New year is celebrated really differently here in Japan. It’s very quiet, no fireworks at all (in Japan fireworks are more a summer thing). Instead, people all go to shrines at 0:00 to pray, eat and have fun!<\/p>\n

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These decorations are found everywhere during new year.<\/p>\n

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All the shrines and temples are crowded with people, standing in long lines to pray at the temples \u00a0and ring the bells.<\/p>\n

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Many different stalls with all kinds of food, if you’re still hungry at 2 am :-p<\/p>\n

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We burned some incense for the new year!<\/p>\n

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Happy 2012, the year of the Dragon!! We travelled to Tokyo to celebrate the new year! We took the shinkansen, the fast bullet train, and bought a nice ekibento, which is a lovely little lunchbox especially made for train travel. Kyoto and Tokyo have no snow, but the area in between was completely white! New …<\/p>\n

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