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Nodate at Roppongi Hills
May 11, 2010
The guests sipped matcha tea and ate manju (a Japanese sweet made with red bean paste) brought in specially from Shizuoka.
Over 30 children were present at the event, enjoyed watching an amezaiku artist create dragons and other shapes out of multicolored hard taffy.
Erecting a huge paper cherry blossom tree in the Sky Lounge, complete with over 2,000 origami petals hand cut by the front desk staff, and decking out the entire lounge with an Edo-era theme.
The staff at the Roppongi Hills Residences are used to planning and preparing events--every year they organize several residents-only functions, from Halloween and Christmas to more traditional festivals. But this was the first year the maintenance and front desk staff worked together on a special kind of Japanese spring festival, called Nodate. As usual, the staff went to great lengths in their planning and preparations for the Nodate celebration, erecting a huge paper cherry blossom tree in the Sky Lounge, complete with over 2,000 origami petals hand cut by the front desk staff, and decking out the entire lounge with an Edo-era theme. Traditional red paper umbrellas were dotted throughout the lounge, where the guests sipped matcha tea and ate manju (a Japanese sweet made with red bean paste) brought in specially from Shizuoka. Over 30 children were present at the event, and they enjoyed playing with old-style wooden Japanese toys and watching an amezaiku artist create dragons and other shapes out of multicolored hard taffy. The adults present at the festival were able to enjoy an ukiyo-e woodblock print demonstration. With over 125 participants from six residences (Roppongi Hills Residences A, B, C and D, Roppongi Hills Gate Tower Residence, and Roppongi Sakura-zaka Residence), the Nodate festival was a huge success, and the staff involved are already entertaining ideas for a similar event in the near future. "It helps the staff and residents to become closer," said Tomomi Hirano, assistant front desk manager at the Roppongi Hills Residences. Kelly