New Year's day (Japan)
On the new year’s day, we visit the neighbourhood shrine to seek blessings for the new year. People come to the shrine to draw their fortune. Though I am not a big fan of fortune telling, I like to see people’s reactions when they read their fortune. For me the bigger attraction is the family lunch later in the day.
Earlier at Choshi, I met the "waiting room" cat. The waiting room cat wants to sleep on your lap and refuses to wake up. I was trying to take something out a small plastic bag. When it heard the crinkling sound , it woke up. Later in the day I saw another cat crossing the road to go to the train station. Maybe the cats work in shifts to amuse the passengers.
