Anyway, the festival is held at Imamiya-Ebisu Shrine in Osaka. When I went, there were LOTS of people there, basically one big queue from the train station to the shrine and throughout the shrine. The queue somehow dispersed on the way back to the train station. No idea why or how, though ;-)
What people do during this shrine visit is they first bring the bamboo branches they had during the previous year from home and dispose of them.
Then, they buy new branches and tokens to decorate the branch. The branches are supposed to bring prosperity and success in business.
As you can see by the amount of people holding bamboo branches in the picture below, there are apparently many people wishing for prosperity ;-)
