2019-03-272022-05-31Tea Events, Tea News Kyoto Tea Hand-Rolling Competition 2019 Back in the old days, tea used to be picked and processed by hand. Through modernization this practice got replaced by machinery. […]
2019-02-262020-04-08Tea Sellers Sakurai Tea in Tokyo Japanese tea continues to be popular abroad. But where can you enjoy it in Japan? It might be surprising to know that […]
2019-02-262020-04-08Tea Kinds The History of Japanese Black Tea – Wakoucha – Part 2 In 1874, Japanese authorities invited two Chinese tea experts to teach black tea processing techniques to Japanese farmers. The produced teas were […]
2019-02-262020-01-13Tea Kinds The History of Japanese Black Tea – Wakoucha – Part 1 It comes as no surprise to many that when you leaf through books on Japanese tea, you more often than not encounter […]
2019-01-302022-05-31Tea Kinds Goishicha (碁石茶) We would like to introduce you to a type of Japanese tea that is so rare that nowadays only 7 farmers produce […]
2018-12-142021-02-23Tea Events, Tea News, Tea Regions Wazuka Teatopia Festival 2018 Wazuka is a small tea producing town in Kyoto Prefecture. However, it boasts a long tea cultivation history of over 800 […]
2018-12-142022-11-28Tea Events, Tea News National Japanese Tea Hand-Rolling Competition 2018 These days in Japan tea is mostly harvested and processed with the help of machinery. Long gone are days when hand-picking […]