Celebrate The New Year in Tokyo, Japan

Celebrating New Year's Eve in asian countries is definitely different than to celebrate the new year in European countries or American. Countries in Asia have many activities that have more meaning in the New Year celebration, not only celebrating the turn of the year.

The New Year is celebrated in Japan for 3 days from January 1st until 3rd , which in the Japanese language are given the name 'shogatsu'. Government and private offices close to 3rd of January.

If you'd like to see the crowd in the city of course Tokyo can be your first option. You catch a bus from the main train station in Tokyo to Tokyo Tower. Because the crowd is usually celebrated the new year's eve near Tokyo Tower. People gather around the Tokyo Tower to wait for year's turnover.

If you'd like to see something different, please come to the nearest temple in Tokyo. On the night before the new year's eve, they beat the bell as much as 108 times as a sign to 108 types of human crimes that appear.

If you want to visit the shrine once a unique and beautiful at night, you can come to 'Enoshima'. From Shinjuku Station you take Odakyu Line train straight to 'Enoshima'. You can reach Enoshima shrine from the station by walking about half hour. You can enjoy the festival in the new year with many Japanese people. You can feel crowd and religious at the same time. In addition, there are a lot of typical Japanese food that you should try around the shrine.

Next morning you go back to Tokyo with the same train which Odakyu line. Try to take train as early as possible because the train will be full of crowd once after 9am because everyone try to catch to go to Tokyo. You can visit one of the greatest temple in Asakusa. You can go to Asakusa with catch one of train in Yamanote Line. Visits to the shrine is one habit for the people of Japan to celebrate the new year. Usually there is a tradition to throw a dime pray health and fortune. Seeing people gather in temples during the new year can be interesting for the journey because not all countries have the unique customs such as that celebrate in Japan.