{"id":1710,"date":"2025-02-12T18:39:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T09:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoteltavinos.com\/en\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=1710"},"modified":"2026-04-10T14:06:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:06:30","slug":"hamamatsucho-setsubun-event","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/hoteltavinos.com\/en\/blog\/hamamatsucho-setsubun-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Setsubun event: welcoming spring and good luck in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/hoteltavinos.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/setsubun1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1711\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"c-text-box lazyblock-text-box-Z2ub7oX aligndefault aligndefault  wp-block-lazyblock-text-box\">\n            <p>Setsubun is a festival in Japan celebrated in the beginning of February. According to the lunar calendar it is customary held one day before the beginning of spring: on 2nd, 3rd or 4th of February.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n\n<div class=\"p-table-of-contents js-table-of-contents lazyblock-table-of-contents-2dQoCI wp-block-lazyblock-table-of-contents\">\n  <p class=\"p-table-of-contents__heading\">Content<\/p>\n  <ul class=\"c-list p-table-of-contents__list js-table-of-contents__list\">\n  <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How do you celebrate Setsubun?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Setsubun at TAVINOS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Events all year round<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Upcoming events<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How do you celebrate Setsubun?<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"c-text-box lazyblock-text-box-AOJfx aligndefault aligndefault  wp-block-lazyblock-text-box\">\n            <p>For many centuries people have been preforming various practices to chase away\u00a0<em>oni<\/em>\u00a0(demons or evil spirits) and welcome the beginning of spring. Nowadays in Japan it is customary to celebrate Setsubun by throwing roasted soy beans (in some regions peanuts) and chanting: \u201cOni wa soto! Fuku wa uchi!\u201d (Demons out! Happiness in!). It is believed that by doing this, you will drive away evil and invite good luck into your house.<br><br>Sometimes during Setsubun someone represents a demon by wearing oni-mask and people throw beans at them.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Setsubun at TAVINOS<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"c-text-box lazyblock-text-box-1ug1b3 aligndefault aligndefault  wp-block-lazyblock-text-box\">\n            <p>This month we held a Setsubun-themed event in the lobby of HOTEL TAVINOS Hamamatsucho, where our guests could throw \u201cbeans\u201d at oni and receive a little prize.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/hoteltavinos.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/setsubun2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1713\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"c-text-box lazyblock-text-box-Z1jE6XM aligndefault aligndefault  wp-block-lazyblock-text-box\">\n            <p>Two oni figures, as you can see on the photo above, have a point system, where each part of their body has different score. Of course, you can play this game by yourself, but if you in the mood, you can also compete on who can get the highest score with your friends or our attenders.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"961\" src=\"https:\/\/hoteltavinos.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/setsubun3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1714\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Events all year round<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"c-text-box lazyblock-text-box-Z1uEd0E aligndefault aligndefault  wp-block-lazyblock-text-box\">\n            <p>As local hub for travelers all around the world, HOTEL TAVINOS Hamamatsucho offers a lot of original events. Some of them we hold simultaneously with our other two hotels in Asakusa, Tokyo and Kyoto, and some are original to each hotel.<br><br>The Setsubun event in HOTEL TAVINOS Hamamatsucho is an event that we are planning to make an annual tradition. That\u2019s why, if you have missed it this year, you can always try it the next.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Upcoming events<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"c-text-box lazyblock-text-box-2foToY aligndefault aligndefault  wp-block-lazyblock-text-box\">\n            <p>We post information on upcoming events and local tours schedules on our official website. Feel free to check if any of them will strike your fancy by clicking on the link below:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoteltavinos.com\/en\/news\/\">https:\/\/hoteltavinos.com\/en\/news\/<\/a><\/p>\n      <\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":1711,"template":"","format":"standard","blog_cat":[7],"class_list":["post-1710","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","blog_cat-hamamatsucho"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Setsubun event: welcoming spring and good luck in 2025 - HOTEL TAVINOS [Official Website]<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Join Setsubun event at HOTEL TAVINOS Hamamatsucho and throw beans at oni to welcome this year&#039;s spring.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hoteltavinos.com\/en\/blog\/hamamatsucho-setsubun-event\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Setsubun event: welcoming spring and good luck in 2025 - 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