[4K] 北野天満宮 初詣 Kitano Tenmangu New Years Shrine Visit

Just after the stroke of midnight on New Years Day 2025, we visit the famous Kitano Tenmangu Shrine in Kyoto. Hatsumode is a big tradition in Japanese culture and Kitano Tenmangu is popular with students praying for good academic results. We walk from the main entrance through the shrine and back out through the market area each way.
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Kitano Tenmangū (北野天満宮, Kitano-Tenmangu) is a Shinto shrine in Kamigyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan.
Kitano Tenmangū is popular with students praying for success in exams because the deity was in his life a man of literature and knowledge. On the 25th of every month, the shrine hosts a flea market. Together with the similar festival at Tō-ji, a temple in the same city, they inspired the Kyoto proverb, "Fair weather at the Tōji market means rainy weather at the Tenjin market," calling to mind Kyoto's fickle weather.
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