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2024 Tsukiji Honganji New Year's Eve Event "Gathering of Nights"

 2024 Tsukiji Honganji New Year's Eve Event "Gathering of Nights"

 On December 31, Tsukiji Honganji held a "Night Removal Party" from 16:00 as Buddhist memorial service, who looks back on the passing years and thinks about the new year.                  After the end of Buddhist memorial service, main hall was closed once and opened again at 21:00. The New Year's Eve event "Gathering of Nights" started. Set up in the precincts, the "night bell experience", which is said to sound with meaning excluding the 108 annoyances, "fire" that not only lights and warms the lights, but also has healing effects, food loss awareness "Hot milk behavior" is being conducted as part of the activities.             Since the hot milk distributed is promoting SDGs initiatives at Tsukiji Honganji, during the year-end and New Year holidays, in addition to the suspension of school lunches, retail business closures overlap, and milk consumption is the lowest in the year. In line with the goal of the SDGs, "12 Responsible Responsibility", it was provided free of charge by JA all farmers and their subsidiaries, with appreciation for dairy support, in order to expand consumption. I hear.                   Worshipers surround the bonfire and warm the cold body with hot milk.                Pipe Organ concert from 22:00, Buddhist monk consultation from 23:00, 23:55 finally countdown, 0:00, "New Year's Book Show" selected by President Tsukiji Honganji at 0:30 Closed By the way, this year's book is "law."  On January 1st, a New Year's Day party will be held from 6:30.