At a Shinto shrine
Many Japanese people visit a shrine during the New Year's holiday (the first three days of January)in order to wishes for health and happiness of the year. People buy Omamori(or amulet), good luck charm and a Hamaya(or a sacred arrow which invites good fortune and wards off evil) At the same time when you visit a shrine, you usually bring those things that you bought last year with you and leave them at a shrine, which means you exchange to new ones. If you forgot to bring them with you, you can visit any shrine which is closer to your house to do it later. So I went Igusa-hachiman shrine where is near my house. In this shrine, there is a small shrine as you can see down here. People enshrine amulets, good luck charms or Hamaya there. Why do people throw them away into a trash can? NO! Japanese people think that you will have bad carma if you just throw them away because those things are associated with Shito shrines I have some, so I decided to go to a s