New Year offering at Kyoto shrine

New Year offering at Kyoto shrine

KYOTO, Japan - Bank employees count the amount of offerings collected during the three-day New Year holidays at Fushimi Inari Taisha, a Shinto shrine in Kyoto on Jan. 4, 2011. The number of visitors at the shrine during the holidays reached 2.76 million, up 30,000 from the previous year.

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