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People pray for a safe new year while standing under a freezing waterfall in Kamiichi, Toyama Prefecture, at the bottom of the Tateyama mountain range.
The Roppondaki falls are located behind Oiwasan Nisseki-ji temple. Participants in the ritual endured a morning temperature of 3 C with the water at 5 C.
One man said: “Last year the Noto Peninsula Earthquake occurred and there was an illness in my family, so I want this year to be better, even if only a little. It feels like all [of my bad luck] has been washed away.”
