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Setsubun 2025

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Today is Setsubun (節分), the day before spring in the old calendar in Japan.

As always, we followed the tradition of eating Ehomaki sushi. One eats the roll without talking, while facing the year’s lucky direction.

We had pre-ordered our rolls at a local restaurant / cafe - they make them freshly by hand in the morning, and they taste fabulous. The left roll is a bulgogi roll, and the right one is a vegetable roll.

Upon pickup, the shop owner even threw in a free serving of handmade kimchi. Nice!

(first two images are unedited iPhone photos)

  • We had preordered two ehomaki rolls at the restaurant: bulgogi (left) and vegetable (right).
  • The owner graciously threw in a free additional bowl of handmade kimchi.
  • The lucky direction for 2025, which one should face while quietly eating the ehomaki, is west-south-west (written here in Japanese, sei-nan-sei).
  • Screencap from the Instagram page of our local restaurant / cafe. We can see a photo of a cut Bulgogi Ehomaki roll, and a note saying that the owner started to work on making the pre-ordered rolls at 4AM in the morning.

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Norbert Woehnl

Norbert Woehnl

Norbert Woehnl is a Photographer in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in Travel, Location, Editorial and Street Photography.
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