My hostfamily and I went to numazu-shi on December 29th. My hostmama's mum lives there. We stayed with her for four days. We took the "shinkansen", the fases train to get there. It was my first time with it so I was kinda exited. The train looks from the inside like a plane.
It was fun a lot of people came and we stayed awake until 12 something every day. The food was also really good but so much. Grandmas cooking is always to much. The not so nice part was that grandma woke us up at 8 o'clock in the morning every day. She went to bed at 9 ir so, so she wasn't tired. Ayumi and I were.

In the 31st we went to an Onsen a, hot spring bath,  It was super. The wather has a temperature of 40 degres and you go in naked. The atmosphere was nice to. The outside was decorated like an old Japanese garden. It looked really nice. After a hot bath you drink some milk in japan because of that there were a milk machine there.  They have differed flavors and are really tasty.

New Years eve is alot differed here than in america or germany. Here in Japan you go to a temple and listen to the tample bell. The bell announces that the Year is over and a new has begun. Because you should listen to the bells it's a silent night , it's nothing really special so you dont really realize that the new Year has begun. You dont have ro go on New Year to a tempel. Te temples are super crouded at that time so we went to one on January 1st. We visited grandmas sister before that and ate there. Some other family members were there to and one of them teached me Majong. We went back home at 7 with the shinkansen.
It were only four days but I really had alot of fun.
By the way in Japan you also have the twelve animals. Every year is a differed one. 2017 was the roster and 2018 is the dog.