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Pikachu backpacks for Shibuya, Tokyo's Fukubukuro 2015

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New Year's Decorations and Traditions

People will hang decorations called Shimekazari on the doors to welcome in good blessings. Common motifs are the three friends of winter: pine, plum, and bamboo, as well as auspicious symbols like golden coins, daruma, and zodiac themes.

Even shrines will have giant ema displayed that have a theme based around the Zodiac of the year. The year I was in Japan was the year of the dragon.

Another fun tradition is lucky bags. Basically blind bags that you purchase for a set price and get a variety of items in. I picked this one cause it was new years themed and god some lovely year of the dragon items.

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Closing out the day with some fukubukuro (lucky bags)! These bags can contain extra merchandise from stores from the past year, or they can be themed from certain manga, anime, etc. Kiku picked up some and is checking her stash. She got some cute Hello Kitty and My Melody items (from Hello Kitty's 50th anniversary, no doubt), as well as a Hatsune Miku acrylic stand figure, a cute cat alarm clock, and a wind chime.