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 […]
2018-11-292022-05-31GJTea News, Tea Events, Tea News Global Japanese Tea Association Opening Event in Madrid, Spain 2018 Exactly one year ago our ideas of spreading Japanese tea took better form and the Global Japanese Tea Association was decided to […]