Anna, Author at Global Japanese Tea Association

Tea in the Blue Ridge Mountains

After several years of obsessing over water and tea, I found myself in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Eastern U.S.A. searching Shenandoah […]

If you visit Japan, at some point you will definitely notice the love for “yuru-kyara” (ゆるキャラ), the cute funny characters that are […]

On 15th July I attended a “Chakai”. Talking with the person that made it and her difficulty in translating the word into […]

In Hyōgo prefecture there is small old town named Izushi. It has the old castle ruins, a shrine, a torii gate… and […]

On the 29th of March, we had the last Meet the Tea Farmer event before the spring tea season. This time it […]

On 22nd February we had one more Meet The Tea Farmer Event. This was the turn of Morihiko Yamamoto, 5th generation tea […]

Here we are, back with our series of articles about the mighty green powder: matcha 抹茶! The trend of matcha has taken […]

In January we started again our Meet the Tea Farmer events! The guest this time was Tatefumi Mataki, a young tea farmer […]