2025 Shinnenkai - Year of the Snake

When
19 Jan 2025
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location
Wasabi Sushi Bar St Charles 1650 Beale St. #175, St Charles, MO 63303
Spaces left
28

Registration

Head Table – $90.00
Limited seating at the head table with VIPs
Kagami Biraki Sponsor – $300.00
Includes 2 tickets at the Head Table.
Special recognition of sponsorship.
Makes kagamibiraki and New Year Kampai possible.
Member – $65.00
Non-Member – $75.00
Sponsor Table for 8 – $600.00
- 8 seats at one table
- Includes special recognition of sponsorship
Tomodachi Table for 8 – $520.00
8 seats at one table at the member price

Please join us on Sunday, January 19 at 1:00 pm for our annual shinnenkai to celebrate the upcoming Year of the Snake at Wasabi Sushi Bar in St. Charles! (map)

Help us ring in the new year and enjoy these shinnenkai delights:

a Japanese bento-box lunch of grilled fish, sashimi, tempura, datemaki, carrot & daikon salad, and miso soup
our traditional kagami biraki (sake-cask-opening) ceremony
a sake toast to ring in the new year
a fukubukuro ("Lucky Bag") raffle drawing; all registrants receive one free raffle ticket and can buy more for more chances to win!

Table Reservations

Consider reserving a Tomodachi Table - a reserved table for eight people at member pricing.

Our Sponsor Table, which makes an additional contribution to support all JAS activities, has been generously supported by JAS Corporate Member Nidec Motor Corporation!

Kagami Biraki Sponsorship

Thank you very much to AnimeSTL for being our 2025 Kagami Biraki Sponsor! This sponsorship makes our ceremonial sake-cask opening possible, and provides our guests with the sake needed for the New Year Kampai! Jeremy will participate in the kagami biraki ceremony and he and a guest will enjoy head-table seating. Thank you, AnimeSTL!

Membership Discount

All registrants will receive a coupon code for $5 off new membership applications or membership renewals in their registration confirmation email.*

*Discount not valid for student-level memberships

"Japan America Society of St. Louis" is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
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