Matsu, Author at Global Japanese Tea Association

“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 […]

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

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

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

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

Humans have been drinking tea for thousands of years. Up to now tea leaves have been dried and stored. In the past […]

Yabukita, Tsuyuhikari, Saemidori, Seimei. These are the names of tea cultivars. With the recent boom in single-origin teas, many of you may […]

In recent years, there has been an increase in the number of tea related media, and the delivery of information about Japanese […]