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Having someone meet you at the airport and get you set up with rail pass and hotel information would be so perfect for jet-lagged minds. a b "これからの「成人の日」記念行事の あり方について (提言)" [The future of Coming of Age Day commemorative event (Proposal)] (PDF).Flat-rate monthly fees for non-acute older inpatients replaced pay-as-you-go charges, to stop hospitals profiting from unnecessary and excessive medical treatment and prescription.

However, some municipalities continue to set the age eligible for participating in the Ceremony at 20, while others have lowered it to 18.This change has caused confusion on the status of the holiday, and raised concerns among the kimono industry which profits from the garments worn during the ceremonies. The capping parent was joined by another important ceremonial participant, either the Nokan (if an Emperor was undergoing the ceremony) or a Rihatsu, who "loosened the childhood coiffure, cut the ends of the hair, bound the head with a fillet, and otherwise prepared the boy to receive the cap". So for the Ceremony held on January 15, 1999, participants must have been born after January 15, 1980 (19 years ago), until January 14, 1981 (18 years ago). Interestingly, at Pokkuri-dera (literally 'sudden-death without suffering') temple near Kyoto, over 40,000 elderly visitors annually placed underclothing before the Buddha, praying 'please let me die peacefully before I am no longer able to change my underclothing and have to face shame and burden my family'. Coming of age ceremonies have been celebrated in Japan since at least 714 CE, during the reign of Empress Genmei when a young prince donned new robes and a hairstyle to mark his passage into adulthood.