There are so many ways to celebrate the 2026 New Year in Tokyo, but it's hard to look past spending the time at one of the city's many temples or shrines, some of which even feature the traditional ...

Asakusa's Sensoji Temple is packed with well-wishers on any day, but more so for hatsumode on New Year's Day. Hatsumode is the act of visiting a shrine or temple during the first days of the new year ...

If you find yourself in Japan over the New Year, there’s no better way to celebrate oshogatsu (Japanese New Year) than with a trip to a Shinto shrine or Buddhist temple. Known in Japanese as hatsumode ...

People go to Senso-ji temple for Hatsumode, or their first temple visit of the year, at Senso-ji Temple in Asakusa area, Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 1, 2020. (Xinhua/Du Xiaoyi) People go to Senso-ji temple for ...