Washinomiya Shrine Record 450,000 Visitors on New Year
Submitted by Alafista on Wednesday, 6 January 20108 Comments
It seems that Lucky☆Star fever has not subsided because a record-breaking 450,000 visited the shrine on the first three days of the new year
The growth in attendance is just staggering — when the anime first started airing, 90,000 folks visited the shrine in 2007. Then it grew to 300,000 in 2008, and onto 420,000 in 2009 and 450,000 in 2010.
Source: Mainichi Mantan
Saitama is just a really cool town to live in, not only you get the Lucky☆Star otaku temple, you also get crazy folks that constantly appear on the news doing weird hilarious stuffs. LOL
LOL they’re going to the temple for all the wrong reasons.
Would love to go there too. For anime and cultural values both. XD
lucky star temple ftw !!!!
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