The tea situation in Japan has been difficult for several years and coupled with the pandemic this year may be especially hard for tea farmers in Japan. Tea farmers focus on cultivating and processing Japanese tea, which most of them sell through the local tea auctions. Over the years the market price for tea has […]
Nagasaki Ikedoki Tea is a new tea project, aiming to inspire tea lovers and travellers who want to gain a better understanding about how tea is grown and processed in Japan. The opportunity to visit tea fields, a tea factory and taste different local teas in Japan is still quite limited for English speakers as […]
One of our main missions is to spread Japanese tea, and that means literally every region, area, town in Japan that produces tea. As the Global Japanese Tea Association started only recently, we are still small and don’t reach as much as we would like to.But our ideas and dreams are big: we would like […]