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This week is the peak season of tea plucking on Makinohara upland. Tea farmers operate plucking machines and carry bags filled with plucked tea leaves. In this season, traffic jam often happens on the side lode of tea plantation as … Continue reading
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In Makinohara area, many tea farmers cultivate vegetables and crops in addition to tea plants. For example, lettuce, cabbage, green onion, rice, maze, etc. As for lettuce and cabbage, tea farmers cultivate them on paddy fields after harvest of rice. … Continue reading
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Full moon illumes tea plantation. Tea sprouts illumed by full moon expressed elegant and fantastic atmosphere. Full moon also illumes paddy field. Waving moon on the surface of paddy field.
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If you are planning to travel Japan, there are many ways to visit Shizuoka prefecture. From Tokyo, Kyoto, Nagoya. Of course, you can come to Shizuoka directly by using Mt. Fuji Shizuoka Airport. As a candidate of for transportation to … Continue reading
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Sometimes tea estates in Shizuoka are covered with fog. At the deep foggy day, we cannot see the far beyond tea plantations as follows. Fog on a tea plantation make a fantastic view with sunshine like the below. Fog often … Continue reading
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JA-Hainan Youth Association, organized by young tea farmers, produced 1st flush green tea for the All-Japan competition of green tea. At first, they tried a test processing to check how each process can affect tea leaves. Slight difference in climate … Continue reading
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Makinan Tea Production Cooperative is one of the tea production cooperatives in Makinohara city, organized by tea farmers living in Shizutani region of Makinohara upland. All members of the cooperative carried out the observation survey just before first flush season … Continue reading
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At the middle of April, tea plantations can create a fantastic landscape. That is the sea of golden tea sprouts, the symbolic view of tea estate. These blessed tea gardens will create the finest teas! *These pictures were taken in … Continue reading
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Weather in April is very changeable. Rainy, windy, foggy, cycling of cold and warm days, and so on. Spring shower provide water essential for growth of tea plants. In addition, the April shower give a fantastic atmosphere to tea plantations … Continue reading
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There are tremendous diversity in flavor and style of teas worldwide due to the spanning centuries of craft, thousands of miles of geography and terroir. In this event, various tea devotees will provide the variety of worldwide teas in respective … Continue reading