hey guy if you watched my Goku travel
videos Sherri's the awesome person that
helped us helped or us all around Goku
so today we're going to talk about New
Year's customs in Japan because I
actually don't know that much about them
and you guys have been asking me a lot
in the comments and lots of you have
been sending me messages actually saying
that you've come to Japan for New Year's
and you want to know like what's
exciting to do in Japan for New Year's
so actually like yeah I don't know too
much about it I've only really like
learned about a couple of new year's
traditions from like my homestay
families and stuff like that so I
figured we would get the pro forma real
bad for you so why do I tell us a little
bit more about what they do here for
nears you're saying that where you're
from and Enki man yes is probably
different than up here in Tokyo probably
different you think so like the main
part is the same yeah it's a family
thing and it we get together and uh we
eat like special like dishes and whatnot
but what's inside of the dish is
probably different we eat two kinds of
food
one is the Oh city so it's like a
lunchbox bento yeah yeah yeah it's like
that so inside of that probably the same
maybe like taste if Frank is like the
seasoning that we use it's like little
there are these little different yeah
but the biggest difference is the the
soup that comes with the Oh City ah like
the not like a Mesa what is it again
yeah it's like a miso soup yeah it has
more tuna and vegetables and whatnot it
depends of the probably prefecture oh
yeah cuz I heard that up north they're
different to you yes so I think like
every place has their own special New
Year's soup in my house we use just the
fish broth and then we particularly put
what's that what's that
blushy oh the little fish the dried fish
that's a tikal US needs a little bigger
one it's not sardine it's probably just
lucky washing control a little Japanese
kind of fish like that I do not know the
fish names and
like uh like a bigger fish like this
size it's bigger than that
I remember you gonna than that and it's
not dried like usually Oh get the broth
out of dried like small fish yeah right
yeah but for this we said Tony
yep the soup I mean Tony we caught up
you washy
mmm and then put it in and we eat the
meat as well okay so it's not just for
the broth no it was brother that's
definitely different cuz the one that I
had up in where was I when I had it I
was probably up north
I remember being lots of vegetables and
mochi and miso bass me so yeah I'll
wager it with miso soy sauce base oh
yeah like the traditional soup the thing
you don't need is different writing on
the creek that's right and then I can
there's the one weird one that's my like
my dad do it but that's not from a
mate's from canola I heard but multi you
put plain multi right yeah yeah but he
puts uncle T what if it's him so like a
like daifuku kind of like that one weird
that's so strange
in like a salty soup wait like a sweet
dessert and oh and with fish what Oh
like I was thinking like lie to me so
yeah I can kinda you're not working but
you know fish famous it yeah I wonder if
that's like a Kagawa Prefecture thing or
kitchen yeah there dad maybe that's a
possibility
strange okay basically like the one
point that I want to stress to you guys
is New Year's in Japan is a family it's
a quiet family holiday it's kind of like
it's definitely not like the Canadian or
American party party time it's not like
that at all so it's kind of the opposite
I always think of Japan as the opposite
like Christmas is kind of more of like a
go on a date and New Year's is like
quiet family time we're in like Canada
and America it would be kind of switch
where Christmas is
the family time so yeah if you come to
japan on years don't expect there to be
like huge fireworks displays and like
huge parties and it's just not like that
here at all are there any fireworks for
New Year's I like I think it's only Coco
right do they do some that's why her I
don't know like maybe okay but yeah like
it's that rare that people don't even
know if there's fireworks for New Year's
so right it used to be like Danielle
first and third no shops are open it's
like that is Thanksgiving in America
yeah and so that's why we prepare a lot
of food in the like kind of like I'm
partial food yeah email on treated right
right so and then like the wipes can
like relax and like take a break from
what everyday work yeah and I gotta make
that osechi though what you want stay
more than crazy guys I'll like take some
pictures of it here but it's like so
many little dishes but you can't
purchase them right if you don't want to
spend break all the effort supermarket
has yeah I think you can get like you
they're really cheap ones from like your
local supermarket you can order them you
need to preorder them for sure they're
not you can just go there and pick one
up because everybody wants once you get
a pre-order them or you can go to like a
department store and get more expensive
right one religion dollars oh yeah
yeah it's insane I think the funny thing
about osechi is that most people don't
like the food that's in it right Oh Mike
yeah yeah we don't like yeah like
Japanese food in general sag I don't
mind eating them but young people don't
like eating fish or like I don't know
most of like very dropping us yeah like
really traditional stuff like beans and
fish and whatever kind of things are in
there mostly vegetables
yeah lots of vegetable no meat probably
very healthy food very like yeah
that Larry I don't like my chuff already
know like it looks so true really yeah
definitely healthy foods like really
basic foods but usually when you like
talk about osechi with young people
they're like I don't want to eat it but
I could totally see like older Japanese
people loving it because it's all this
super traditional dry foods does the
whole family gather at someone's home to
eat like the New Year's food together or
do you kind of go and visit everyone's
houses and see your family or how does
that really work usually is Nick usually
I think it's everything is depending on
the family yeah but my family used to go
to my grandparents house on my mother's
side because my grandma on my dad's I
lived together oh it is a great day I do
that yeah and then we go to my grandma's
house and then all the relative relative
come to my grandma's house they come and
go kind of okay so we are basically
eating the whole time just constantly
eating yeah eating right and say hi and
then like you know you have to say like
okay mushed it on with the dog right
yeah it's like an important phrase I
can't much dominate the cosine loss then
you can get open Emma yeah from your
uncle and an eat some food it's under my
right they are there any other phrases
that you use for New Year's coffee
Moya's mom we say those descendants yeah
those are the phrases that we usually
use as I like greeting when you meet
somebody but for like New Year's cars
yeah yeah you can say a lot of things
like King gushing in oh what's that
that's basically like it's like
literally like happy oh yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah I guess it's like the
Chinese way of writing it with for Karen
yeah I think so yeah
like that basically yeah happy new year
more like Gatien Oh gay is that mookaite
oh yeah Oh welcome welcome in spring
shoe yeah wait cause like we kind of
count new year as a like started start
of this yeah I know race coming soon
yeah I really like how when you want to
say like Happy New Year like in a casual
way they say like okay America like you
pick up like oh you know shorten it also
if you're like chatting to your friends
you can use that it's super casual
though
merry Christmas to me good e'en yeah
everything would be shortened in
Japanese yeah that's a really like
common way to say it Akio Michael Toyota
yes they did it to your boss no oh my
god get me Brazil I'm so mad do we cute
though to use with your friends or if
you're taking like New Year's pretty
Korea together people would definitely
write that oh yeah
yeah it's a really young casual way to
say it so if somebody was coming to
Japan on New Year's Day or like around
that time what would you suggest that
they could do here that would be fun cuz
they won't have the host family right so
they can't really do the whole like
osechi spray vibration but what could
they do
I think they can't go to like shrine
yeah temples a big part like I figured
not everyone but a lot of people tend to
wear kimono just go to just visit to the
shrine yeah so even though like you
can't wear kimono because that's a lot
of work I can't even wear oh yeah yeah
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a lot of work you know don't go to a
store and probably get them to like hire
them back - yeah I do you could write
that's like good experience right kimono
yeah but just go out to the shrine and
just like watch those people so much ie
so in a Japanese traditional way that is
that's fine think and you can get like
your omikuji right here like your your
luck here like look for the future it'll
tell you if you're gonna be like really
lucky or like have a really crappy year
it will tell you all about what your
year is gonna be like are you only
supposed to get one of those per year
because like people every time they go
to the shrine they're always getting
like omikuji but really only supposed to
just get one at New Year's or does it
matter
I don't think mutters yeah it's the same
as the the charm cuz I got like only
supposed to be for new eyes - right
aren't they it's not for just New Year's
but if you get from one shrine that's
fine
okay but in the Japanese Shinto believes
in like there are many gods right
so if you get a little like charm from
this shrine and that's right and that's
right then like we say the King customer
Oh like a lot of different gods are
gonna fight over like which one's gonna
like pray oh that's nice with right just
one that's really interesting I've
always wondered about that because
everywhere you go there'll be little
things like being sold for different
things like health or to protect you
when you're driving or to give you like
good luck with your studying or your
work or something and like lots of
tourists will just like well those are
so cool like just like viola everywhere
and yeah I usually buy them as like a
souvenir like when I went dish cooker
and we climb that mountain I got some
from the top it was really cool temple
we went to it's time to post that video
that was a good dish apparently as long
as you get them all from one shrine you
can get several of them throughout the
year and it'll be okay
that's good to know that's really useful
but yeah visiting shrines and temples I
guess temples the other of them died
depends
the family is like Buddhist hmm and they
go to Temple yeah instead of shrine so I
guess if you're neither and you're just
here for like the cultural experience
although really mine yeah I gave you the
Japanese evidence people were not really
religious anyway yeah they kind of just
take like aspects out of each right
diagrams yeah like we like my family
goes goes to shrine for the new years
but if we have funeral we do in a
Buddhist way right to the temple and if
you get married you might do it like the
Christians oh yeah yeah
religion in Japan's kind of it's a
culture yeah more like a culture than
our religion that's so true but new
years I would recommend for you guys
yeah to definitely go to the shrines but
prepare for them to be insanely busy
because everybody goes to the shrine for
New Year's to get their fortune and to
pray for a good year and yeah it's crazy
it's like a it's like if you went to a
really big mud city it's the same
feeling with so many people and they'll
have like stalls with food and stuff
writing so I think so yeah they usually
have like the little food stalls so it's
basically just like a big festival like
uh yeah I don't expect there to be any
big nighttime parties when it turns
midnight like people aren't gonna be
like yelling and screaming like it's a
lot to really get Canada do you know the
tradition where like if it turns
midnight on New Year's everybody will
like open their front door like bang
pots of - they're not everyone does it
but most people do and it's like it's
normal you wouldn't be like one of those
people doing oh like it don't do that
I'm happy as a good listener out of
collaboration like if people are like
like that but that's definitely it's not
a big noisy holiday very quiet yeah yeah
calm festival yeah
but I think it's nice to have that
difference so if you're here for New
Year's and you were expecting a big
exciting party and you're disappointed
if they don't have that I would say like
take it as an opportunity to try
something new and definitely go to the
shrines because it is really cool seeing
people dress up in their kimono and um
get your fortune right it's just like a
different experience it feels really
nice and like peaceful and it's like a
nice fresh start to the year you can go
in
for good luck and stuff so for kissa
they get to push them up oh yeah I
forgot about that I've never been a kid
in Japan sign me up
the best part of this far yeah tell them
what you don't know cinema Tama is a
like a ball like a round thing so kids
for the new year's day they get coins
from their family and relatives and they
turns into more like bills lately I'm
not really Puma but but that's my mom
like the biggest time of the year that
kids get like like couple hundred bucks
yeah hey that's another way that it's
kind of like Christmas back at home cuz
for us we'd get like money in our
Christmas cards and we get lots of
presents and stuff but they don't do
that here on Christmas yeah but New
Year's for the kids is exciting they'll
write some money cuz like all the
different relatives gives them all to
give gum alright so it piles up the more
relatives you have the better because
you'll get more and more you I need when
do they stop giving all turkey dama like
what each do you think I think it's just
depending on the family yeah I think
that usually like once you start you
start like working you kind of like
explain right on through it push it Emma
anymore you have your own money you
don't really need like right our help
but I knew some high school students
we're still getting it so yeah I would
say probably up until university most
families give fun think so oh that
was awesome yeah I guess that's it
hopefully you guys learned something
about New Year's thanks so much for a
teacher was been packaging for me too
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