Meiji Jingu on New Year’s Day
I have braved the New Year’s Day crowds at Meiji Jingu twice in my life–1989 and 2010. The place and number of people don’t seem to have changed. The crowd control measures sure have.
Hatsumode (初詣) is the name of this first shrine visit of the new year. Technically, this wasn’t my first shrine visit in 2010 as I was at Zojoji much earlier in the day.
January 1st, 2011 at 6:33 pm
Mr al,
Wonderful shot of street photography, I think it is the same around the world…
Like every first day of the year, the News Paper would show great spending on fireworks, rubbish created by the New Year Party, and traffic jams burning off fuel all around the world to count down… as if to count down the end of the world by burning more fuel, creating more rubbish, and creating a bigger hole in the ozone layer…
Cheer,
Happy new Year,
Wong