Four Seasons Tokyo at Marunouchi prices its December afternoon tea at ¥12,000
Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Marunouchi will serve a ¥12,000 festive afternoon tea through December, built around a Japanese-inflected menu overlooking Tokyo Station -- the same kind of dated, priced seasonal F&B launch its Otemachi sister property ran for Christmas cake, and a read on how Tokyo's station-district luxury hotels are competing for holiday spend.
Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Marunouchi (フォーシーズンズホテル丸の内 東京) said it will serve a Festive Afternoon Tea at MAISON MARUNOUCHI, its lounge overlooking Tokyo Station, from December 1 to 30, 2026, priced at ¥12,000, according to the hotel's November 2 announcement. The set is designed by French-born executive pastry chef Nicolas Maugard.
The savoury course includes a bite-sized canapé the hotel calls Marunouchi Festive Fried Chicken, served with house pickles; a smoked-salmon-and-cream-cheese mille crêpe topped with salmon roe (ikura, いくら); and a hairy-crab (kegani, 毛ガニ) bisque finished with prawn oil. The sweets course centres on three named pastries -- an ornament-shaped strawberry-and-pistachio cake called L'obscur, a chestnut-and-vanilla Mont Blanc tartlet called L'hiver, and a dark-chocolate financier called Intensité -- alongside spiced carrot cake, freshly baked scones and a ruby-red welcome drink, the hotel said.
Pricing and dating a single seasonal set, rather than leaving the offer open-ended, is a familiar F&B move at Tokyo's luxury hotels heading into December: it is this property's version of the ¥9,000, star-shaped Christmas cake -- the Étoile de Chocolat -- its Otemachi sister property announced in October, and both give Four Seasons a fixed, bookable product to sell against the capital's dense field of hotel afternoon teas rather than competing only on ambience. Folding a hairy-crab bisque and a fried-chicken canapé into an otherwise European-style tea service is a small gesture toward a Japanese palate on a menu that could otherwise read as interchangeable with any Four Seasons property's holiday spread.