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108 Bells New Year’s Eve at Namu
Ancient Japanese custom calls on specific rituals to ring in the new year. Among them: drinking sake to ward off evil spirits and ringing a bell 108 times to absolve the year’s 108 sins. We figure absolving a few sins can’t hurt—especially when a five-course dinner with garlic crab noodles, raw oysters and copious amounts of sake is involved.