O-mikuji

O-mikuji(御御籤, 御神籤, or おみくじ,o-mikuji) are random fortunes written on strips of paper at Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in Japan. Literally "sacred lot", these are usually received by making a small offering (generally a five-yen coin as it is considered good luck) and randomly choosing one from a box, hoping for the resulting fortune to be good. As of 2011 coin-slot machines sometimes dispense o-mikuji.