In order to avoid congestion on New Year's Day, New Year's cards were delivered one day early on New Year's Eve on the 31st along the approach to Mogami Inari Shrine in Okayama City, which is crowded with people visiting for New Year's visits every year.
Since many people visit Mogami Inari Shrine in Kita Ward, Okayama City, on New Year's Day every year, the local post office has been offering 120 shops and houses along the approach for over 40 years. We deliver New Year's cards early on New Year's Eve.
This year, a total of more than 2,000 New Year's cards were delivered, and a post office employee walked around stores and delivered them alone.
Souvenir shops, busy preparing to welcome visitors to Hatsumode, immediately read the New Year's greetings one day earlier when they received New Year's cards.
A man in his 60s at a souvenir shop said, ``I usually receive New Year's cards from people I don't meet.
A woman in her 60s at another souvenir shop said, "When I receive a New Year's card, I realize that New Year's Day is finally coming. I hope that my family will be healthy and get along well next year, and that my business will be prosperous." .