Between 10th-12th May Shizuoka held a tea festival called – World O-CHA(Tea) Festival. Tea festivals in Shizuoka are held every three years. The first festival has held in 2001. In 2019 is the 7th time to organize it. This year the plan is to organize the festival twice: in spring and autumn. Spring festival was already held in […]
Even today a lot of tea in Japan is sold in tea auctions. The first opening of the auction is always a big event. It gathers people from all walks of the tea industry. Tea buyers – usually big tea wholesalers, are the key participants of course. But you can also meet tea farmers, agricultural […]
Wazuka is a small tea producing town in Kyoto Prefecture. However, it boasts a long tea cultivation history of over 800 years. Every years to celebrate the end of the harvesting season, Wazuka holds Teatopia Festival. It usually takes place on the second weekend of November and lasts two days. In 2018 the festival […]