Yeah, to you!
Emma and I had a pretty fun New Year's Eve... It started with spending the day with Joe and Tiff and Tiff's Family in Sannomiya and Kobe... We walked around both areas, shopped, went to a sake brewery ("No tours today..." "Boo!"), ate at The Old Spaghetti Factory (Yes they have those in Japan...), and generally looked at various objects in front and to the sides of us...
The Ecksellbergners took off right around dinner time to go back to Omihachiman, so Emma and I were left with about 6 or 7 hours to kill before midnight... What to do, what to do...
We were really tired, so we decided that a good pick me up would be a few beers at The New Munchen Club (where one is able to do some munchin' if one desires)... We were both ridiculously tired... The first hour or so of our time at The New Munchen went like this:
*Yawwwwwnnnn*
*Stretttttttccccchhhhhhhhh*
But after 3 or 4 beers, we felt invigorated, so we decided to try and make it to midnight...
After New Munchen a while, we headed to The Hub, which is an English-y typey pub pretty close to the shrine (which was the ultimate goal of the night)... We had a couple pints, talked to a bat-shit crazy guy (I quote, "The IRS is illegal you know... Look it up on YouTube..."), and met up with our friend Akiko...
We then went outside to countdown the time until midnight... The shrine in Sannomiya (and, I can only therefore assume, everywhere else in Japan) opened at midnight, and people came from all over to wait to get in and pray for good luck in the coming year... And to eat Gyros...
We waited patiently for the shrine to open whilst being surrounded by thousands of people waiting patiently for the shrine to open....
Once the shrine opened, and we made it to the front of the mass to be let in, we said a prayer, gave some yen, grabbed a beer, and, I think, most importantly, ate a Gyro...
Good times! Check out the pics of the night here!
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