We visited the major Osaka shrine today. It is tradition that on the 1st Jan, Japanese visit the shrine to pay their respects and basically try and get a good year. It was brimming with people throwing money at the shrines (we noticed it was mostly a few yen although one generous dude chucked 10,000 yen in which is about £80). It looked more like a money making exercise, for various amounts of money, you could get charms, fortunes and various artifacts. All very interesting of course.
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