How do Japanese celebrate New Year

No matter what you nationality and ethnicity is people all over the world celebrate New Year in a different way. Some people used to play music, dance and party on eve of New Year and some of them welcome new year with prayers and warm wishes. Japan is a country having rich culture and traditions. In Japan the on new year people a lot of different things. It not all about drinking, dancing and fireworks in Japan there are some key things we you should enjoy if you ever got chance to visit Japan on new year.

The first thing is that the celebration of new year’s run for more than 3 days in Japan and most of the people and business are  close in this time period. It is a tradition in Japan that people love to send best wishes to friends, family and other relatives on the eve new year. The Japanese people love to send cards to each other on new year especially kids. These cards are well designed and well decorated. The other thing which is considered as a tradition in Japan is that people used to give money to the kids and they will insert money inside the cards.

On new year people will decorate their homes with lights and clean their house as people used to visit each other to wish each other. The other tradition which you can find in Japan is that on the December, 31st midnight they ring the bells one hundred and eight times in their temples all over the world as it was in their religion. The other things about bells is that Japanese people believe that by ringing bells you can get rid of all sin you committed in previous year.

Japanese people love to eat the traditional foods items on the eve of new year. They eat many dishes and also keep some dishes in the refrigerator for the guest as the stores and shops are closed due to holiday. There are so many different television show especially made to provide entertainment to people on new year.