Christmas VS New Years in Japan
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
- Today we are talking about Christmas and New Years in Japan. It is quite different from back home, some might even say, completely backwards. Join me as I walk through Tokyo, rating Christmas lights/illuminations and talking about Christmas in Japan!
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Bonus Points if You Caught The Christmas Egg Ranking!
You guys requested it, and here it is!!
Rating Christmas decorations while teaching stuff and things! Any surprises in here? Any fun stories? Let’s get the holiday feel going and share below!
There is one huge christmas tree in the Marunouchi area. It is inside a building. I do not know which building. I saw it when John (Only in Japan) did a live stream along that street you were on.
Norm, you should go to the Imperial palace. This will be his final appearance as the Emperor. You will witness history as next year will be the end of an old era and the begining of a new one.
Christmas egg! 😂 That was funny. But seriously though, the street of lit up trees dazzled me. It's too bad it's not as decorative as you said it used to be. I would've liked to have seen that.
I live in Georgia. When I was a kid we would go to see the lights at Lake Lanier Park. Worth taking a moment to Google. Of course it's one of those things where pictures never do it justice. Christmas lights have to be seen in person to get the true awe striking experience. That's what the street you walked down reminded me of. Maybe that's why it made me smile so much when I saw it. The glowing lights of nostalgia.
So surprised that the trains stop running every night except New Year's Eve! In the Netherlands, there are some night trains every night *except New Year's Eve*, when all public transport ceases at 8pm! It's the complete opposite!
Great video as always. i'm always surprised how early some things related to Christmas happen in Japan ... I've been in Tokyo in October before now and the trees were already lit up along that road in Maranochi even then and last time I was in the food hall in Isetan they appeared to be taking orders for New Years food in the same sort of time period.
Christmas tree of boars ... freaky.
7⭐!! I always watch Norm videos right to the end 😊 All those lights were beautiful!
All the lights are beautiful! It's really interesting how Christmas is for dates and New Years is for family.
I still always call family back home on Christmas still lol it’s been over 10 years
That's good. It must be hard at times being away from them. Christmas always makes me think of family.
The area of Ginza/Marunouchi is so classy, I love it
The Astro boy bit in the middle of the bento box was cool
No mention of the KFC phenomenon? I find it a fascinating cultural nugget (ahem)
Re your comment about cleaning: I don't know about now, but it used to be a tradition for British people to scrub their homes before the new year (start fresh) and open their windows and doors on new years banging pots etc to make noise (scare away evil spirits and let in the new year)
Finally it’s November here when I’m watching this, it’s a little chilly, and this is such a great video to tuck into to prepare for the holidays. I love all the little differences that makes the holiday season so different and unique in Japan; it really shows how everyone has their own things they are used to as traditions and makes me want to learn about/experience more
Hi! @MatthewDay!
The quiet with the lights is really welcoming and soothing. We have places like that in St. Louis. I always like the lights, cold, and quiet.
Maybe that's why eveyone in my office is always so shocked when I tell them "no I'm not going home for the holidays. It's time for my yearly winter road trip through Honshu! I do this every year guys why do you keep assuming I'm going back home?" I haven't been back home in a few years and the lack of Christmas vibe in my small town helps with making me completely forget Christmas is just around the corner.
Collette that might be your earliest comment yet! Haha
Thanks for always being here~
The Christmas tree at 恵比寿ガーデンプレイス was really nice and traditional. Only sucky part was there were these building lights behind it that kept creating a glare in the picture.
OMG! It's really beautiful! Your really luck to be in Japan in this tome of year. I hope you have a Merry Christmas and an Awesome New Years Norm! Thnx for your awesome content🤓🇯🇵
Thank you for being here Erik!!
Felt logical to watch this in Christmas Eve, have some happy holidays Norm and everyone!
Great quick video! I too have noticed the decrease in light displays over the years since the earthquake, it's too bad, but understandable... I really hope that they increase again someday though, Tokyo and Japan REALLY know how to decorate for a holiday when given the time and budget!
Having spent a week in Japan during the beginning parts of December, I was surprised to see as many Christmas decorations in Tokyo as I did. It's really interesting that since Japan adopted the western calendar instead of the Lunar calendar, all those traditions got shifted up to New Years time frame. In Hong Kong, Christmas decorations and Lunar New Year decorations both have their own spotlight as usually a month of two goes in between the two holidays. Thank you so much for doing this video. It's really great to hear your experience having been in Japan for so long.
In Brazil Christmas is for family and New Years is for friends.
Same in Canada! 😊
Same in the US.
I'm late but appreciate your positivity as always. Christmas can be a melancholy time for expats.
Come to Enoshima for the trippiest winter illumination in all of Kanto!
Norm the official Tokyo Christmas Decoration Judge xD. Really enjoying this Tokyo Tuesday so far!
Lol enjoyed thy part of it~
And a tough judge he is LOL.
Interesting! I had no idea the emphasis was reversed in Japan! Honestly I think I like it better that way. The new year is a new start, so it feels good that it's such a big celebration, whereas Christmas is about a week before the year ends. The more I think about it the more it makes sense! Seems like there's just never a dull moment in Japan. Thanks always for the great videos!
Great time of year in Japan!
seeing the emperor, would rock! thank you for sharing! have a great christmas!
Celebrating my first Christmas and New Years in Japan this year! Thank you for all the insight, I am an expert now.
Christmas is more for couples while new year is a family reunion characterised by many customs
The store window toy display reminds me of the way my Dad described the display windows in the Olgilvy Department Store on St. Catherine Street in Montreal in the 1930's and '40's.
Thanks for the tour.
No one else may appreciate it, but I peeped that clip of you checkin out that S2K i see you Norm, amazing car
You’re my favorite today! Lol
PROFESSIONAL CHRISTMAS DECOR REVIEWER! I found that reviewing section hilarious for some reason lol. I still haven't spent a Christmas eve in Japan. But, hopefully next year!!!
I've heard about cleaning just after the Christmas Eve's and it keeps me amazed, that they are able to clean it all in just a matter of hours 😮 but 24th of December, that works like Valentine's Day... My friend told me about it like a week ago and I'm still scratching my head because of that 😅
Going out for the Christmas feel and seeing Reindeers scrubbed off windows and lights taken down. I think I would have cried. :'D
The boar tree is awesome!
I have always been confused about the fact that people celebrate Christmas on 25th, in Finland (where I'm from) Christmas Eve is the Big Thing when people gather together with their families, go to church and visit the graveyards to light candles. New Years are not as big, but many do fireworks.
C’est tellement beau ces décorations de Noël 💕
Gonna spend Christmas and New Years with my JP GF and her Family ! Both Holidays are always amazing in JP I think.
Nice Slide! glad to see video to go with the podcast(which details the horrifying reindeer(decoration) decapitation) Thank you Norm. I know you are busy with life other than UA-cam but we all greatly appreciate you showing us pretty lights.
I knew a lot of things you talked about, but it's interesting to see how things changes from media I remember having tons of illuminations and things. I's love to see Japan in winter TnT
Merry Christmas from Canada, Norm! 🎄🌸I'm currently snowed in, which is pretty unusual on the west coast...so guess what I'm watchin'?! 😉Christmas-ey or not, those were such pretty lights at the 10:00 min mark and the acoustic version of 'Oh Christmas Tree' was perfect. Congrats to successful teaching of holiday "stuff and things" in Japan, in a fun format!
There is a big Christmas tree in the Opera City at Hatsudai.
The auto captioning called the new years soba "toasty cosy soba" :D
I always find it fascinating how different countries and cultures celebrate. Especially the northern hemisphere! You guys have winter Christmases!
The difference is really intereating... but I can see where they are coming from.
Great video, the compareson in really nice. I would like to some more ot this kind of videos :)
The lights are beautiful and I loved how you shared this time of year in your video! In my family Christmas ‘is for family’ and celebrated with a dinner and exchanging gifs at the 24th, and lunch at the 25th with the ones we didn’t get to see or even the same ones with leftovers... New Years is amongst friends, but I love to spend with my parents as well.. it’s a good mixture more ‘party’ like... 😉🇧🇷
Hopefully you will do a 2019 Christmas vlog.
Imma regular viewer!!! Is it me or does it sound like Christmas/New Year’s is the best time to come? 🎉. You mentioned Charlie Brown Christmas and I was about to mention it was a very Vince Guaraldi Trio bgm going on with your vid this time
I´m Russian and NYE is for family with the Russian Santa Clause and "christmas" trees with presents that we open on 1st of January. But the younger ones also go out to celebrate with friends. And then we have the actual Christmas which is on the 7th of January
I’m not sure I would like switching Christmas festivities for New Years. I’ve never been thrilled by the new year, even if the old year sucked 🤔😜
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Norm, hope you have beautiful holidays
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too!!
Wishing you all the best!
Omg that view in the intro 😍 // also notification squad xD and woahhh it looks so beautiful so far
Edit: oh my gosh although it's not like Christmas here in England I still really really want to experience it and I'll be checking out the podcast too for sure. Thankyou 💜
Waited for the edit! Lol I knew it was coming
Glad you enjoyed it!! And yea
The podcast is MUCH more detailed lol
ノルムさん、いつも楽しい動画をどうもありがとう。
今年のイルミネーションがいつもの年と違って、少し静かだと感じておられるようですね。
その理由はおそらく、今回の年越しは私たち日本人にとって、平成と呼んでいた一つの時代が終わってしまうことへの寂しさと関係していて、それがこうした街の雰囲気に少なからず影響を与えているからなのかな、…と思っています。
That’s all very pretty. I always imagine Ginza having pretty illuminations. Not sure if Ginza is still swanky though.
You gave a boar pyramid (not a tree) an 8, but an actual Christmas tree that changed colors a 7, no way. I demand a recount! lol
HAHAHA the boar had cute moving stuffed animals! I stand by my rating
also, I rate this comment a 12 out of 10! Merry Christmas!
I was number 999. But I also learn something new today so thanks.
I was 1k 😋
Really enjoyed the video, as always Norm! I’d love to spend Christmas in Japan one day just for the experience. Hope you’re having a great December!
More tree rating videos please!
I’m gonna be celebrating the new year over there!!
Happy holidays Norm!
Yay! Loved the tree ratings!! I should take a few pictures of the Christmas yard displays near me and send them to you. 😀 some of them are very large.
Norm skidded I would have been worried if you hurt yourself. And New Years in japan always gets me interested.
Lovely!
0:00 Epic fail avoided, well done Norm :D
Oh I miss the toshikoshi soba, such a simple thing but I just love it, I want it every new year now.
Yeah the that street in Marunochi is also my favorite when it comes to winter illumination.
Love the vibes
I'm glad you didnt fall there in the beginning xD Tokyo looks so beautiful with all those lights, i really wanna visit during christmas time one day! The egg was definitely the best thing we saw lol
It's not Christmas yet, but as I type this, it is Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving Norm! I'm Thankful for you and all the awesome content, keep it up !
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you :) great video. Here in Denmark for me Christmas is spending time with family and new year is having fun with my close friends
I've always found it weird being in places for Xmas/New Years where it doesn't snow or get cold. It's just not Xmas without snow.
Hi Norm, hope you are having a lovely day! Loving the jazz music! Do you have a Christmas tree, Norm? Do you prefer white lights on trees or multi colored? Haha, I like how you are rating all the decor! OH GAWDDDD.... That sounds like a Christmas nightmare! What did you do after that? Hopefully drank some saki with friends... Sheeeeet!
"It's a Christmas egg... I'll give it 7 stars!" LOLOLOLOLOL I am dying over here!!!
よいお年を🎆
happy Christmas
Great video. Christmas is a Christian holiday which has been lost even here in the west. We have forgotten what it's meaning is about. Especially to those without family, food, clothing, and a place. For on this day a savior is born! This holiday is about commercialization. Who can get the biggest gift not about who needs help. I was raised as a Buddhist and now a Christian for 23 years. Even Japan has there homeless hidden away. Most japanese don't believe in Buddhist teachings. But go along as something taught but don't believe. But as always love your videos! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Mele Kalikimaka and Hau'oli Makahiki Hou! Enjoy your osechi and ozoni
Merry Christmas Norm and an amazing New Year
Great video aa usual Norm. You're ranking was interesting. I was wondering there wasn't enough Christmas lights. The vocab lesson was great too.
*as usual.
I am a boar, really excited for 2019 im hoping it will be good and chill since its my year. Loved the video
I really appreciated the vocabulary lesson. But I'm gonna tell you what without Taylor and Sharla being in Japan we're gonna need you to get some of those bags and open them on camera. And you better find some female friends opening some of those bags and film them doing it! PLEASE!!!!
LOL so much pressure 😂 hahah
Lmao
you mean fukubukoro?? Maybe Sharla will order it and open it up for you...who knows
@@nyantsuki1061 Yes well she was in Japan but she's in the back country where there are not the shops!
I vote in favour of getting and opening fukubukoro Norm. Everyone say AI !!!
Guess I’m not really that surprised, that there’s not a lot of Christmas themes. Since Christmas is more a western religion. But still interesting how Japan celebrate it.
Nice lights. Thanks for the info.
thanks for another amazing video! merry christmas!
I was in japan 2 weeks ago for my holiday and we nearly went during xmas and new years! I do want to go one new years so i can get those lucky bags and experience the atmosphere during their holidays :) also love your judging on the decorations haha
Can this please be a yearly tradition??
I love that idea
I’m down if you are lol
I’m already looking forward to next year’s 😂😂👍🏻👍🏻
So magical!😍
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Norm. 😊🎄
I was in tokyo during xmas/new year before but I didn’t know the trains were 24hr on new year’s eve!! 😱
Thank you so much for the info, especially the vocabulary. it will come in handy soon. I've been in Japan for 3 months now and am wondering, will there be a fireworks display in Odaiba, on New Year's Eve?
I wonder if you don't like multi colors stuffs, because both the changing colors Xmas tree and the Xmas egg at the end, you've only given them a "7", while you gave higher point for the "tree" that they changed the animal toys annually 🤔
Any ideas on places to countdown in tokyo? Besides shibuya crossing and clubs or pubs. Would love to see a nice view of fireworks though.
If you want fireworks your only hope might be Disney land if it’s open! You’re unlikely to find that many countdowns in Tokyo as New Years is a family occasion rather than a social one.
The podcast I did covers it all in Much more depth!
I’ll link it here for you
anchor.fm/tokyolens/episodes/Christmas--New-Years-in-Japan--Not-what-you-might-expect-e2m9oo
@@TokyoLens Thank u will listen to it soon.
Honestly, the boar tree was my favorite. So cute! The color-changing tree seemed the most like something you'd see here in the U.S.
I don't personally celebrate christmas, but it's everywhere here in the U.S.
Do they play christmas music anywhere there? My least favorite thing here in the u.s. is having to hear the same songs over and over again. Some places put up decorations and play christmas music is mid-november.
Thanks for the video Norm, hopefully you'll buy some end of the year BAGS!!!!!
I don't know how to feel about Christmas in Japan. Not that it matters, I don't live there and it isn't my culture. Although I remember in the past (been following UA-camrs who live in Japan for a long time... anyone remember tokyocooney...?) And there seemed to be a consensus that even though their festivities are different, they really helped set the atmosphere and it helped a lot of foreigners who were missing home during the holidays.
Very interesting! I had no clue about most of this.
Hi Norm, thanks for the heads up on the New Year’s meal! Can’t wait to actually be there to try it (coming to Tokyo to experience the Fukubukuro craze next week! ) and hopefully it’ll last us for New Year’s Day since you mentioned that most shops would be closed on that day. 😂
I loved the decorations rating lolll
i completely agree with your ratings XD
Ok, who else started rating the Xmas displays along with Norm?
The tree of boars. Yes.
I'm curious how you spend your Xmas in Japan dude. How about a "My Xmas in Japan" video but the holiday?
He talked about his Christmas day in the podcast! You should check it out!
やっぱ都会はイルミネーションが綺麗だな〜
Nice
Piggy tree! 10 stars 💜
Merry Christmas 🎄 Best wishes for 2019 🙏🏻
It is very beautiful! Ginza is good, too. Also, go to the "Blue Cave" in Shibuya and see.
Lucky you didn't hit the camera in that intro lmao
great video as always! Keep it up!!
Oh my goodness I don't even wanna talk about Japan right now. I have never even wanted to visit Toronto Canada not for any particular reason. Since Taylor has been showing Toronto and all the wonderful Christmas stuff wow. I am highly impressed with that city!!! I know I think I'm gonna go there this Spring and just stay down in financial district and go to all those restaurants! OK back to Japan!
IndigenousPotliquor-check your prices and start saving, Toronto is insanely expensive.
@@JadeCanada237 oh I here you. Really I looked at the prices of hotels right in downtown and if you book it far off in advance they're not that expensive. I'm not talking anything glamorous now. And I would just like to stay in an area where I can just walk around mainly. Then I think I'll eat all my meals at that chef place Taylor just had on her UA-cam channel.
Also im really not surprised that new years is bigger. Japan is predominantly shinto and buddhist so it makes sense they aren't super into a christian/pagan holiday.
Thanks for the Xmas tour, Norm! By chance, have you met/are you friendly with fellow Tokyo Canadians, Simon and Martina? They just posted a Christmas video that talked about how the holiday is more about dates and NYD is the big thing. Plus, they’re from TO (as are you, if I remember correctly) and a helluva a lot of fun. Maybe you three could do a collab video in 2019?
Norm, you must have a field day with al that lightworks in Japan.
Great👍👍👍👍