New Year’s Eve is a celebration which is celebrated the world over. It is the one celebration which regardless of what religion or race a person may be they will still find it relatable in all ways possible. With that in mind, you can be assured that no matter where you are, your new year’s celebration is bound to be a blast as the festivities are similar all around the world. This is also true even if you are celebrating New Year’s Eve in Tokyo guest houses.
It is a well-known fact that the Japanese are notoriously particular with their cultural principles and the ethics of their country. So you would probably be worried that their New Year’s Eve celebration would be too overly Japanese oriented.
But you would be pleasantly surprised to find out that contrary to popular believes, the Japanese take on New Year’s Eve celebration is as cultural but also includes elements of many other cultures such as the ones from the west.
On the traditional side of the celebration, the Japanese always practice eating a special dish they refer to as, Toshikoshi Soba, this dish is loosely translated to mean “Entering a New Year Soba”. This form of soba is made from buckwheat noodles, and thus is no different than Soba served any other time of the year in Japan. However the eating of Soba at the end of the year has always been symbol which marks the end of the year for the Japanese.
In the west the New Year’s celebration is often the mark for new resolutions for the year, the setting of new goals, and a mark for many people to start making a change in their lives in the year ahead. For the Japanese however, the concept of New Years is diverted by just a little. In Japan, the New Year marks the abandonment of the past years and looking forward only to the New Year. The Japanese believe that this will allow everything you do in the New Year to be considered as your first time.