Centara Grand Hotel Osaka completes ground-breaking ceremony and sake dedication

Friday, May 8, 2020

The official ground-breaking ceremony and sake dedication, known as “jichinsai”, to mark the beginning of construction of the 34-storey Centara Grand Hotel Osaka has completed. This was done along with Taisei Corporation and Kanden Realty & Development.

The ceremony  was held at the Safety Prayer Festival at Namba Shrine near the Centara Grand Hotel Osaka site.

Before any new construction can begin, a jichinsai ceremony must be held to purify the ground and seek the blessing of the local gods which is as per the Japanese tradition.

 The ceremony is lead by the Shinto priests and sake is used as one the main elements that will be sprinkled across the ground where the new construction is planned. Special sake bottles for each of the three partner companies were specially produced for the ceremony.

 In Japan, Centara Grand Hotel Osaka is Centara’s first property  is scheduled to open in mid-2023. The newly built hotel is an upper upscale property with 515 keys that will occupy a gleaming 34-storey tower on a prime site in Osaka’s Namba district, the centre of leisure tourism for the city and the wider Kansai region.

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