Christmas

Hi everybody,
I am MAD about food and definitely want to try some high class restaurants, perhaps some Michelin rated places.
I will be there during the Christmas and New Year time, I loved to receive some suggestion to were we should/could be eating during this period and if most restaurant will be open during this time. Or maybe most are already fully booked????
I am going crazy reading the Tokyo Michelin guide, drooling all over it. ;)

Christmas eve and the 1st and 2nd Christmas day, including new years eve are of course the main days for us to eat at a wonderful place.

Between Christmas and new years we will be visiting Kyoto with the bullet train, so eating at a top kaiseki restaurant would be super also.

Hope you can give us some info, so love to hear from you. ;)


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SpacerIt is not easy to pin-point the origins of the Christmas feast, today the more important feast of the Christmas season in most western Christian churches. One can only say for certain that the birth of Jesus Christ was being celebrated in Rome by the year 336 A.D.; afterwards the feast was celebrated in other Christian churches throughout the world.

Why it was celebrated on December 25th is another question. No date for the birth of Jesus can be found in the New Testament, which is concerned more with the question "Who is Jesus?" than the date of his birth. Early Christian speculation about his birth date was influenced by the symbolism of the changing seasons, then popular in religious thought, which paid careful attention to the equinoxes and solstices of the sun. Christian scholars speculated that Jesus was conceived at the spring equinox (March 25th) and therefore was born on December 25th, the date of the winter solstice.


In many of the Christian churches, March 25th is still the Feast of the Annunciation, when the Angel Gabriel announced to Mary that she was to be the mother of Jesus.