Thank You For Reading My Blogs In 2016

It is December 31st, so this is the last post for this year. Thank you for reading my blogs during 2016! The photo on the right hand side was taken today. Mt. Fuji is also seeing off this year's last day with the clear sky and the crescent moon.

As I wrote in my another blog on December 30th, in Japan there is a tradition at the end of the year to eat one kind of noodle. The noodle is "Soba Noodle" which is made from buckwheat and the dish which is for December 31st is called "Toshikoshi-soba". The direct translation of it is "Noodle for passing over the year", but it is a "Noodle for New Year's Eve". Since ancient times Japanese people eat something long to wish longevity, so people eat Soba noodle at the end of a year. 

Hope you will keep reading my blogs for a long time!