New Year's, Japanese style.
Toshikoshi soba, traditional noodles for New Year's Eve.
Boiling mochi f(sticky rice flour) or breakfast on New Year's Day.
Mochi, anko (sweet red bean paste), and kinako (soybean flour) breakfast.
Nagaoka Tenmangu, the shrine nearest my apartment.

Toshikoshi soba, traditional noodles for New Year's Eve.

Boiling mochi f(sticky rice flour) or breakfast on New Year's Day.

Mochi, anko (sweet red bean paste), and kinako (soybean flour) breakfast.

Nagaoka Tenmangu, the shrine nearest my apartment.

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Here's to 2012 and finding happiness.