鎌倉 (Kamakura) - visiting Hachimangu shrine

Although it was really hard after the night in Ageha, I managed to get up around 2 o'clock, meet with HanJoong and JinKyuu and go to Kamakura. There we were supposed to meet Mayu and a friend of her and visit Hachimangu shrine together. We asked a friendly Japanese officer at the station, how to get to Kamakura, and he happyly provided us with all necessary information and even with a English tourist pamphlet describing the way. As we learned on our journey, it was the most beautiful route and not the fastest. In summer we would have been able to watch the see from the train but now it was winter and dark and just slow, so that it was half past five until we finally arrived at Kamakura, 2 hours late...
We found the two girls in the shopping road that lead to the shrine :-P and entered the queue in front of the temple together. As Hachimangu shrine is one of the most famous shrines in Kamakura, many people visit it on the first days of the new year. For security reasons only a few people are allowed to enter the shrine at a time while the remaining people wait behind a string.
In the building on the top of the hill you throw some coins into a box, clap your hands and say your prayers / wishes. After that you can ask for your fortune by pulling a bamboo stick with a number out of a box and recieving a piece of paper with some advices according to the number on that stick. If it is bad fortune, you also can attach the piece of paper to a special tree to leave the misfortune behind and in the case of a really bad misfortune (or just to be save) buy several different of lucky charms.