Eating soba: on New Year's Eve afternoon, we happened to walk by two of Tokyo's oldest soba noodle joints. Lines were going around the block. The photos below are of the same line for one of the soba restaurants, wrapped around the block.
Lion dance: originated in China over two thousand years ago. We have not seen this variation. Though at a glance it seems subpar, it is actually rather engaging between the lion and the audience. View the embedded video below, or click here.
Temple visits: Japanese are rather enthusiastic about visiting temples. Every one of them, big or small, was having good business. We went by Meiji Jingu (photos below) on the 4th? The crowds were unbelievable, we gave up. This religion "gene" seems to be still going strong in Japan. which I had previously assumed would have been diminished by education and development......The last photo below is from our 2007 visit to Tokyo. That's Sun-Ling walking away at right.
4 comments:
Doorway decorations are lovely!
Interesting decorations. Liz
I am not a big fan of temples and assumed Indians must be the most obsessed with temples but interesting to know the temple fandom extends much beyond lol.
We noticed that neighborhood temples of all faiths are common in all parts of Asia.
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