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MAP of Japanese Traditional Culture Guide SEIBU Dept. AREA Hatsumoude & SHIBUYA A /B 5～8 min. OPEN 1/1 Shopping BIC CAMERA LABI Shibuya Kita- SHIBUYA East Gate store sando OPEN 1/2 OPEN 1/1 sta. SHIBUYA109

OPEN 1/2 JR Yamanote JR S Welcome - h -Jingu i BIC CAMERA b Shrine 25 min. UNIQLO Shibuya Hachiko uy Gate store a / OPEN 1 1 s 25 min. / t Shibuya OPEN 1 1 a . Hikarie Tokyu Dept.TOYOKO OPEN 1/2 OPEN 1/2

Takeshita St. I mention the traditional event of holidays. to the Yoyogi- sta. Hachiman sta. Tokyu Plaza metro Omotesando Harajyuku Chiyoda line Yoyogi- Meiji-Jingu OPEN 1/1 20 min. Koen sta. KIDDY mae sta.

LAND Fukutoshin line Fukutoshin OPEN 1/1 metro Tokyo Omotesando Hills Japanese Shibuya MODI 20 min. OPEN 1/1 20 min. OPEN 1/2 10 min. SHIBUYA Omote-sando CAST. sta. Tokyu Hands Shibuya OPEN 1/2 GYRE OPEN 1/2 13 min. 15 min. OPEN 1/2 20 min. Tokyu Dept. Tokyo metro New Year HONTEN line/ Hanzomon line OPEN 1/2 min. 15 Shibuya sta. MEGA DonQuijote Konnou- Tokyu / min. OPEN 1 1 15 min. Toyoko line 10 Shibuya Mark City Toyosaka-Inari Hills Shrine OPEN 1/2 5 min. OPEN 1/1 10 min. 25 min. ●During the new year holidays, each commercial complex has different business hours. Please ask each commercial complex for details. DAIKANYAMA T-SITE ●Indicated time for travel is OPEN 1/1 15 min. Daikan- subject to change according to sta. trafc conditions.

代々木八幡宮 Yoyogi-Hachiman Shrine 明治神宮 Meiji-Jingu According to the shrine history, it’s said it started when a small Meiji Jingu is a shrine dedicated to the divine souls of the shrine was built on the ground of the Moto-Hachiman in the 2nd Meiji Emperor and his consort, Empress Shoken. The area is year of the Kenryaku era (1212) and the Hachiman shrine was comprised of the pure and solemn inner garden and the outer transferred. Since then, as a place for those in Yoyogi to pray to precinct, which includes many sports facilities. The evergreen local gods, it has hidden away a history that is close to 800 years. Meiji Jingu forest is known as the home of the Japanese heart, and TEL：+81-3-3476-3000(Main) a popular location for relaxation. 26-1 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku,Tokyo 150-8512 https://www.tokyuhotels.co.jp/cerulean-h/ 金王八幡宮 Konno-Hachiman Shrine 豊栄稲荷神社 Toyosaka-Inari Shrine It’s believed that the Konno-Hachiman-gu Shrine was built Through the 2nd head of the Toyama domain, Maeda Masatoshi, in 1092 by Kawasaki Motoie. Places like the the Toyosaka-Inari Shrine received a division of the guardian Konno-Hachiman-gu Shrine, designated a tangible cultural spirit of ’s Fushimi-Inari Taisha Shrine, and was built to property by Shibuya, are invaluable buildings housing enshrine that God of the Harvest. Red gates are lined up on the architectural style from the early . Beautiful grounds, creating a view unique to harvest shrines. It’s said to be owers bloom on the shrine’s famous “Konno-zakura” tree effective in familial safety, business prosperity, warding off evil, in the cherry blossom season. etc., so locals believe strongly in it. Japan s “New Year” ’ Many people visit shrines in the New Year to wish for New Years is an incredibly important event for the start of the year where, from luck. This is called “Hatsumode”. Mountain climbing olden times, prayers were offered up to greet the “Toshi-gami-sama”. The to see the rst sunrise of the New Year, considered “Toshi-gami-sama” is closely tied to familial and harvest prosperity and grants 初詣 lucky, has also become common in recent years. people both health and good fortune. Hatsumoude We’ll introduce you to a few nearby shrines that Please enjoy a relaxing time at the Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel while enjoying have histories dating back hundreds of years. Please お正月 make sure to visit. many traditional events to greet the new year. The3 Keywords to Enjoy the We eat a special dish during the New Year called “”. Many The opposing “” that decorate the entrance and the straw

different types of food considered to be lucky are prepared dish In Japanese, New Year is called “oshougatsu”. “” that protects the entrance act as markers to greet the by dish with great care and packed into stacked boxes to Toshi-gami-sama. Special decorations unique to New Years, greet the new year. Many of the items packed have the like stacked, round rice cakes known as “Kagami-”, are meaning of being for health and familial prosperity. in the center of the home as offerings and are imbued 御節 正月飾 Moreover, it could be said that everyone eats “Ozoni”, a with the wishes of people. Osechi Shougatsu- soup with rice cakes. Its characteristics are based on the In the Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel, we have a modern-style region, so there are many different avors and ingredients. Kadomatsu, taken from the hotel’s design concept, that is kazari expressed with the “Sogetsu” school of ower arrangement. Please have a look.

年 越しそば お雑煮 正月飾 鏡餅 Kagami-mochi 門松 Toshi-koshi Ozoni Shougatsukazari An offering for the “Toshi-gami-sama”. Each item Kadomatsu Soba noodles eaten on A traditional Japanese dish where the has its own meaning. When the New Year passes, The most important of all the “Omisoka”(12/31) as a means rice cakes used as offerings are eaten. New Year Decorations are there is a “Kagami-biraki” day, where the rice cakes decorations used in the New Year. to ward off bad luck, it’s a Its characteristics are based on the Collection of Lucky Items are cut and everyone eats them together. It acts as a marker allowing the Japanese custom that reminds region, so there are many different In Japan, many things are given meaning through a “ Toshi-gami-sama” to come one of the end of the year. avors and ingredients. play on words. Words with a similar pronunciation without getting lost. Folding Fan 扇 are paired, giving a nuance to things. ※Decorations vary according to Region The folding fan is understood to broaden towards the end, and is imbued with wishes of increasing Bitter A lucky item used to wish for prosperity as time passes. 橙 Orange prosperity in a family generation 初日の出 after generation, as it does not 注 連 飾り drop fruit borne in that year, Shimekazari Sunrise on New Years’ Day するめ continues to bear fruit and from It’s said that this The rst dawn of a New Year is thought to be Dried Cuttle sh generation to generation will decoration for entrances important. People pray to the sun while remain as one tree. Dried cuttle sh lasts both indicates a pure area to greet the wishing for happiness in the coming year. long so it refers to god while also protecting from “eternal happiness” and its many legs 裏白Whitebeam outside misfortune. Some can be (“Oashi”) refer to On the evergreen fern, the leaves grow with a purchased for as little as a few 獅子舞 money so a squid with bilateral symmetry carrying the meaning of hundred yen, so they make great matrimonial happiness. Moreover, as the surface Shishi-mai many legs symbolizes souvenirs. 初夢 good fortune. is green and the back is white, it signi es “unquestionable integrity”. First Dream of The traditional art of “Shishi-mai”, a the New Year dance is performed with a lion mask on, is done to ward off The origin seems to have been The dream seen between illness and purify evil 御幣 Column having children eat New Year’s Day (1/1) and 海老 昆布 串柿 spirits. It’s believed that “Kagami-mochi”, which the following two days will Shrimp Kelp (Konbu) Kushigaki if you have your head The meaning of the red お年玉 housed the spirit of the predict good or bad is protection from evil Taken from the shape of Has the meaning of Has the meaning of bitten by the lion, s Gift “Toshi-gami-sama”. Currently, fortune for the following spirits, whereas the the shrimp, it’s used to “happiness”, with a play “gathering happiness”, New Year’ you’ll be able to spend white portions have the pray that one lives so on the Japanese word with a play on the Japanese it’s been established as adults year. meaning of aiding in long that they’ll be bent for “to be happy”, word for “to gather”, wrapping money to give to children, a yearly the year in good the spread of justice. over at the waist. “Yorokobu”. “Kaki-atsumeru”. occasion children look forward to. health.