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Category: Tea Persons

2024-03-082024-09-24Tea Innovators, Tea News

From tea plantations to tearooms, the ambition and action to take on everything from industry to culture. The culture planner’s efforts to restart the tea industry and tea culture. [TeaRoom CEO Ryo Iwamoto]

Picasso and Van Gogh. These two great artists are in stark contrast. Van Gogh left 2,000 works during his lifetime, but only […]

2024-03-082024-09-24Tea Innovators, Tea News

Organic and certified. A new world of pesticide-free, shelf-grown, hand-picked, stone-ground matcha opens up. [Akahori Seichajo / Masamitsu Akahori]

Since the 2000s, matcha has become popular worldwide. However, the most popular matcha is culinary matcha used as a flavor in food […]

2024-03-082024-09-24Tea Innovators, Tea News

Let’s go beyond the limits! The Northern Limit Tea Project aims to plant 7,000 tea plants for tea production in Hokkaido. [Ryokuheki Chaen / Youichi Kourogi]

The tea plant is a subtropical plant native to Yunnan, China. For this reason, most of the world’s tea-growing regions are located […]

2024-03-082024-09-24Tea Innovators, Tea News

“I want to go to the tea farm!” There is less than one bus an hour and the nearest train station is 10 kilometers away. The secret behind the rush of foreign visitors to this tea production area on an isolated strip of land. [Kyoto Obubu Tea Farms / Hirokazu Matsumoto]

With the end of the coronavirus pandemic and the weakening of the yen, the number of inbound tourists – foreign visitors to […]

2024-03-082024-09-24Tea Innovators, Tea News

Expanding the business by elevating the familiar tea to a theme. Broadening tea possibilities from the perspective of hotels. [Ryumeikan / Hiroaki Hamada]

When you stay at a ryokan or hotel in Japan, there is always tea in the room. This is normal. However, when […]

2024-03-082024-09-24Tea Innovators, Tea News

The tea space on a tea farm is visited by 6000 people a year. Protecting the tea landscape and tea until quitting the job at a major company. [AOBEAT / Serika Tsuji]

A view of the tea farm. Deep green stripes woven by humans and nature. During the season of fresh greenery, the area […]

2024-03-082024-09-24Tea Innovators, Tea News

Turning ochawari into the national drink! With 100 types of ochawari and the Japan Ochawari Association, what follows highball will be ochawari! [Japan Ochawari Association / Tomotaka Tajimi]

Highball (whiskey and soda split) is now a standard menu item at izakayas (Japanese style pubs). The rise of highball began in […]

2024-03-082024-09-24Tea Innovators, Tea News

Raising the value and potential of tea by pairing it with meals and desserts. [LogiConnecTea / Tomoki Kawano]

Until more than a decade ago, the standard Japanese tea was a blended deep-steamed tea, 100g of which sold for 1,000yen. During […]

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