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New Year's greeting cards

TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 1 Kyodo - Postal workers depart Tokyo's Shinjuku post office on Jan. 1, 2025, to deliver New Year's greeting cards. (Kyodo)

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Vetro Montagna classic car festival starts in Mt. Koya

HASHIMOTO, Japan - Various types of classic cars are parked at the exhibition site of the Vetro Montagna Koyasan classic car festival on Nov. 8, 2014, at Mt. Koya in Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan.

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Repaired hall of Shinto shrine shown to press

HASHIMOTO, Japan - The repaired main hall of the Niutsuhime Shinto shrine in Katsuragi, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, at the foot of Mt. Koya, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is shown to the press on Oct. 27, 2014, ahead of the transfer of its enshrined deity to the refurbished shrine in November, the first such ritual in 37 years.

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'Kasahoko' ritual in Wakayama Pref.

HASHIMOTO, Japan - The 300-year-old "kasahoko" ritual praying for good harvest takes place at Kosawaitsukushima shrine in Kudoyama Town, Wakayama Prefecture, on Aug. 16, 2014.

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Many wind bells hung at western Japanese station

HASHIMOTO, Japan - Some 500 wind bells are hung from the ceiling of a walkway at Gokurakubashi Station on Nankai Electric Railway Co.'s Koya Line in Koya, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on July 1, 2014.

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Olympic gold medalist Maehata's 100th birthday commemorated

HASHIMOTO, Japan - Visitors look at mementoes commemorating the 100th birthday of the late Hideko Maehata, the first Japanese female swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal, at an exhibition held in Hashimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, on April 1, 2014. Maehata won her gold at the Berlin Olympics in 1936.

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Rite to pray for harvest at Wakayama shrine

HASHIMOTO, Japan - A traditional rite called "Ondasai" to pray for a good harvest is held at Niutsuhime shrine in the town of Katsuragi, Wakayama Prefecture, on Jan. 19, 2014.

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Snow-covered temple in Japan's Koyasan

HASHIMOTO, Japan - A couple walk past a snow-covered temple in the Buddhist complex of Danjogaran in the Koyasan area of Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Dec. 16, 2009. The area was covered with snow for the first time this winter.

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Wakayama temples heralds spring with fire festival

HASHIMOTO, Japan - The Kongobuji temple in Koya, Wakayama Prefecture holds the ''Koya Fire Festival'' on March 4 to herald the arrival of spring and to expel evil spirits, with monks feeding prayer wood plaques into a 2.5-meter-high pyre especially built for the occasion

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Jumbo pumpkin competition

HASHIMOTO, Japan - An examiner measures the size of a giant pumpkin at a competition in the town of Katsuragi, Wakayama Prefecture, on Sept. 2. The pumpkin, which is 0.6 meter in height and 69 kilograms in weight, came in first among 70 giant pumpkins.