Reiwa First New Year's Day New Year's visit to Tokyo Meiji Jingu Jan 1 2:00
At the Meiji Jingu Shrine in Tokyo, the first New Year's Day in Reiwa, many people came to visit the temple for the first time of the new year and joined hands with a wish for a new year.
The Meiji Jingu Shrine in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward is said to have the largest number of worshipers visiting Japan every year, and many people formed long queues on the approach road to wait for the New Year's night on the 31st of Omizoka.
Then, at midnight, the sound of the first drum, which tells the arrival of the New Year, echoed in the precincts, and the visitors successively paid for the huge fence of about 400 tatami mats in front of the shrine. Throwing hands together with New Year's thoughts.
Those who had finished worshiping were playing fortunes and buying lucky charms such as talismans and talismans.
A 22-year-old man, who will be in his second year as a member of society, said, "I want to have a year of trying a variety of things, both at work and privately." In addition, a 20-year-old third-year college student said, "I want to focus on my health while spending all my time studying."
At Meiji Jingu Shrine, it is expected that more than 3 million people will visit the New Year's Day every day.