Thirty-four monks officiated at Osaka's Kyocera Dome |
The late inventor of instant noodles was symbolically blasted off into space at a funeral ceremony attended by thousands in Osaka, western Japan.
The event was a tribute to Momofuku Ando's creation of Space Ram, a noodle soup that works at zero gravity.
Mr Ando, who died in January aged 96, created the instant noodle in 1958 and worked hard on the vacuum pack that was taken into space in 2005.
His Nissin Food Products has annual sales of 300bn yen ($2.5bn).
Tuesday's ceremony attracted 6,500 people to Osaka's Kyocera Dome baseball stadium. Thirty-four monks officiated and stars adorned the walls.
A previous post on Mr. Ando's passing.