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Day 25- Kabuki Theatre

Bored one evening, we heard about a little festival in a town nearby and thought it might be fun. A twenty minute train ride later and we were treated to food, fireworks and people bustling and dancing in Kimono’s. The highlight of the evening was my first look at Kabuki theatre- a silent story set […]

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Day 24- Fortune Telling

Tying my fortune, with a wish, at a Shinto shrine. At Shinto shrines there are fortune machines, 100 yen a time. If your fortune is bad, it is tradition to ward off bad luck by tying it to a tree branch, or to string dotted around the temple. I’ll be honest, I couldn’t really understand […]