100 Famous Teas is the contest in Shizuoka prefecture. It is not a competition to find the best tea, but the contest of individuality. The main criteria for the tea to be selected as one on 100 Famous Tea is to be unique, and the selected teas get the right to use the special label […]
November is the perfect time to start writing about the Tea Ceremony. It is a moment of change, and new beginnings. October in Japan has been warm, but towards the end of the month, close to November, you can start feeling that fall finally is here. The fallen leaves on the floor of the street, […]
We are happy to say that we will be holding a film screening of the Japanese Tea Documentary together with its producer Makoto Takatsu. Released just this May, the documentary was created to share the outlook of Japanese tea by Japanese tea lovers and professionals. The event will involve an online film screening and we […]
In 2019 The UN designated 21st May as the International Tea Day to bring more attention to the importance of tea and highlight its long history as well as deep cultural and economic significance around the world. The International Tea Day was first observed in 2020 and this year was a second time. To observe […]
You probably know that Tokyo will make the second attempt to hold the Olympic Games 2020 this summer. Inspired by the athletic spirit of the Olympic Games, we are happy to say that during the same period we will hold the Japanese Tea Marathon! ‘What is the Japanese Tea Marathon?’ you may ask. The marathon […]
We are glad to share that our president Simona has won the first place in the Wazuka Chakabuki – tea tasting competition organized by the Tea Industry Youth Association. Simona is the first foreigner and the first woman to receive this award. She will be representing Wazuka town and Kyoto prefecture in the National Tea […]
Last 27th of January we had one more Meet the Tea Farmer event. This time we met Yoshihiro Sugimoto, a third generation tea farmer from Wazuka, Kyoto; a good crew of our members joined from all over the world (Italy, Portugal, The Netherlands, Belgium, Australia and USA!) Sugimoto-san cultivates and produces sencha, matcha and wakoucha […]
At our monthly Meet the Tea Farmer event on 25th November our guest tea farmer was Noriyasu Uejima – a 5th generation tea farmer from Wazuka, Kyoto. Uejima-san decided to continue his dad’s activity as a tea farmer when he was 22 years old. Soon he realised it wasn’t an easy task and one that […]