Shizuoka Tea Market will hold the ceremony of initial trade of first flush in 2019 on 19th April.
Tea buyers observe and check the quality of each crude tea based on the appearance at first.
This year has appropriate rainfall at the beginning of spring and most of tea shoots can avoid rapid increase of temperature, which causes decrease in richness because of too quick growth. Thus most of tea business persons expect the flavorful first flush produced in the United Tea Estates of Shizuoka.
Shizuoka Tea Market opens the marketplace for visitors. We can observe the scenes of tea merchandizing between tea farmers and tea merchants.
The venue of the initial trade is often full of various people, including tea farmers, tea businesses, visitors, tourist, tea enthusiasts, Japanese Tea Instructors, broadcasters, tea machinery staff etc., indicating their high interest for the first flush of Shizuoka tea.
Soft Laboratory Inc. provide the foreign visitors with a program of observation tour in the Shizuoka Tea Market. If you like, please see the official webpage.
The detail of the observation tour is as follows.
- Date : Everyday between 27th April to 6th May except for the close day of market.
- Tour time : 6:00 – 10:00
- Venue : Shizuoka Tea Market
- Address : 94, Kitabancho, Aoi ward, Shizuoka city, Shizuoka prefecture.
- Fee : 5,000yen.
The detail of the initial trade in Shizuoka Tea Market is as follows
- Date : 19th (Fri.) on April, 2019
- Time : 6:30 – 8:00
- Venue : Shizuoka Tea Market
- Address : 94, Kitabancho, Aoi ward, Shizuoka city, Shizuoka prefecture
- Fee : Free