On New Year’s Eve, we enjoyed a wild duck hot pot dish as well as fried oysters. We spent most of the night sitting around the dinning table, talking and watching an annual comedy special.
On New Year’s Day we ate osetchi-ryori, traditionally eaten during the holiday. In recent years, it has become less popular as many of the younger generation do not particularly enjoy all the pickled “delicacies.” At one point Atsushi said he didn’t really like it, and his mom agreed, so I suppose it just gets eaten every year because of tradition!
In the afternoon we went to Kintai Bridge, one of Japan’s top three most famous bridges. Every year on New Year’s Day, re-enactors wearing costume from the Edo period march across the bridge and demonstrate the firing of antique, matchlock rifles.
After the demonstration, we crossed the bridge and had some fantastic lunch at a tea shop. Then we took a cable car up the mountain to see Iwakuni Castle where we could look down over all Iwakuni.
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