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About 4,000 people headed over to a Shinto temple this morning to receive a blessing for New Year's. It was a little rainy, but that didn't stop the crowd from lining up outside Daijingu Temple of Hawaii in Nuuanu. The event was held from midnight on December 31 until 4 p.m. on New Year's Day. You could get a blessing from a Shinto priest, buy a good luck charm (omamori), or get a fortune. This has been a tradition in Hawaii for the past 110 years.