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Memorial Services

Memorial Services

A memorial service is a meaningful gathering where family and close friends come together, each holding the departed in their thoughts and praying for their peaceful repose.
At Yokohama Techno Tower Hotel, we help make these precious hours unfold in calm surroundings, with thoughtful, attentive service and the depth of flavor we take pride in.

Memorial Service — Western Course Menu

Sekisho (Evening Glow)
11,000 yen per person
(food, venue fee, service charge, and tax included)

  • Lobster and zucchini charlotte
    topped with caviar
    two-pepper sauce
  • Farm-direct mushroom and truffle
    consommé in puff pastry
  • Fresh fish of the day
  • Grilled domestic beef sirloin
    horseradish sauce
    with morning-picked vegetables from local farms
  • Marquise au chocolat
    with fruit macédoine
  • Bread

Bosetsu (Twilight Snow)
8,800 yen per person
(food, venue fee, service charge, and tax included)

  • Kelp-cured flounder from Misaki Port
    rolled in cabbage
    with a Japanese-style sauce and plenty of fresh aromatics
  • Sea urchin, clam, scallop, and angel shrimp
    Western-style chawanmushi brimming with the bounty of the sea
  • Fresh fish of the day
  • Wagyu beef cheek braised in red wine
    tender enough to enjoy with chopsticks
  • Matcha and black sesame parfait with brown-sugar jelly
    in the spirit of Japanese anmitsu
  • Bread

Shugetsu (Autumn Moon)
6,600 yen per person
(food, venue fee, service charge, and tax included)

  • Misaki tuna and rice salad, dome-shaped
    with micro greens
    basil and black-olive sauce
  • Morning-picked vegetable potage
    from local farms
  • Fresh fish of the day
  • Pan-seared beef sirloin
    with café de Paris butter
  • Banana wrapped in pâte phyllo and baked
    rum-scented, with vanilla ice cream
  • Bread

Memorial Service — Japanese Bento

Rakugan (Falling Geese)
7,700 yen per person
(food, venue fee, service charge, and tax included)

  • Two seasonal small dishes
  • Assorted sashimi
  • Simmered seasonal vegetables
  • Grilled seasonal fish
  • Assorted tempura
  • Grilled eel (unagi no kabayaki)
  • Snow-crab gratin baked in the shell
  • Beef sirloin steak
  • Chawanmushi (savory egg custard)
  • Steamed rice
  • Japanese pickles
  • Clear soup
  • Dessert

Bansho (Evening Bell)
5,500 yen per person
(food, venue fee, service charge, and tax included)

  • Seasonal small dish
  • Assorted sashimi
  • Simmered seasonal vegetables
  • Assorted tempura
  • Grilled seasonal fish
  • Beef sirloin steak
  • Chawanmushi (savory egg custard)
  • Steamed rice
  • Japanese pickles
  • Clear soup
  • Dessert

A Guide to Common Memorial Rites & Observances

Buddhist memorial rites include the “First Seven Days” (shonanoka), the “49th-Day Memorial” (shijukunichi), and the “First-Year Anniversary” (isshuki) one year after passing. Other faiths and regions, and individual Buddhist sects, observe their own memorial customs.

Choosing the Date Ideally, the service is held on the actual anniversary of the passing, but in practice many families set a date that suits everyone attending — commonly on or before the anniversary day.
Buddhist (Memorial Rites) Memorial observances fall on the 7th day (shonanoka), the 35th day (goshichinichi), and the 49th day (shichishichinichi), followed by the 1st-year and 3rd-year anniversaries. From there, services are held — by traditional counting — at the 7th, 13th, 17th, 23rd, 33rd, 50th, and 100th-year anniversaries.
Shinto (Reisai) The mourning period runs from the 10th-day rite, with observances every ten days through the 50th day. Ceremonies then continue at the 100th day, and at the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 10th, 20th, 30th, 40th, 50th, and 100th-year marks.
Christian In Protestant tradition, a major commemorative service is held on the 7th or 10th day, or after one month, followed by memorial services at the 1st, 3rd, and 5th-year marks. In Catholic tradition, services are held on the 3rd day, 7th day, after one month, and on the first-year anniversary, with a memorial mass on the anniversary of passing every year thereafter.

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