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The Expo of agriculture-related cultures in rural area, named as “Haru Satoyama Haku”, will be held from 5th May to 6th April around Ooi river, involving northern Makinohara upland. This expo of green-tourism has multihued programs in each day, such as … Continue reading
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Young and highly active tea farmers belonging to Chakura produces original black tea named “KOHAKU”. “Kohaku” means “amber” in Japanese. The leader of Chakura, Shingo MURATA, has a ruling passion to produce “KOHAKU”. His emphasis is on the fermentation … Continue reading
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Agricultural Artifacts Festival in Food-Capital of Japan was held on 20th Feb., in Twinmesse Shizuoka. Multihued agricultural artifacts created colorful scenes. In front of the entrance, bouquets of flowers welcomed us! Lots of people visited the booth for teas … Continue reading
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In Shizuoka, teas are so familiar to people that high school students study teas-related products and tea industry based on their curiosity. Besides local banks support their research activities. On 18th Feb., Shimada Shinkin Bank held the annual conference to … Continue reading
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On the previous day of Valentine day, men and women expressed their favor and thanks by various manners such as beautiful flowers, sweet chocolates etc., each other. Of course, tea is one of the best expressions of our favor or … Continue reading
Local food festival so-called “FURUSATO Maturi” will be held in Tokyo Dome City.
We can enjoy a variety of local foods from all over Japan, of course, Japanese tea produced in Shizuoka also.
Shizuoka tea and related products will be provided by the group of highly-motivated farmers so-called “Makinohara Ninteikyo”. In the page introducing sellers, you can see the image as below.
*Japanese character meaning
As for the farmers introduced in the page of “Tea farmers”, Ito-san will join this festival on 8th and 9th. He will welcome you with high-grade loose leaf tea and his nice gentle smile!
Other prominent tea farmers also will join the festival and welcome you with their nice hospitality, OMOTENASHI mind. I hope you will enjoy all in the festival, especially tea products from Shizuoka and communication with Shizuoka tea farmers.
—Details—
Period : 8th-17th January 2016
Open time : basically from 10:00 to 18:00 (at 8th 11:00-21:00, 13th-15th 10:00-21:00)
Place : Tokyo Dome City
Entrance fee : 1,600yen for 1day-pass, 1,100yen for evening pass.
Venue map : As for how to go the venue from the nearest stations, please see the surround map. The venue is “Tokyo Dome”, captioned as No.1 in the map. As for the map of its inside, the map of the venue is depicted in the webpage of Tokyo Dome City. (Unfortunately, this page is described in Japanese only.)
Access : The access map depicted in the webpage of Tokyo Dome City. (Fortunately, this page is described in English.) For searching the way to the nearest station, it is useful to search by JNTO Travel Planner. On the below part of the link page, you can see “-> JNTO Travel Planner”. Please click it and then, please input or select station name for departure and final destination.
As for how to use JNTO Travel Planner, please see the page “Guide for trips“.
Hello, tourists in Japan! If you are planning to buy some souvenir, Japanese tea is recommended! Especially Japanese tea produced in Shizuoka is one of the best quality and the most recommended one! From 27th to 29th Dec., we can buy Shizuoka tea of fine quality in Tokyo. The name of the shop is “Ocharaka” in COREDO Muromachi, located in Nihonbashi Muromachi in Chuou-ku city in Tokyo. If you would like to visit the shop, please see the below part of this page “How to access to the shop”.
In the term between 27 to 29 Dec., Nagata-san and CHAKURA will sell their tea products.
Nagata-san got the award for tea production from the minister of agriculture in Japan, which means the quality of his tea products is so fine! Tea gardens of his family is located in Kanaya area on Makinohara plateau.
CHAKURA* is the group of young tea farmers belonging to Kikusui tea plantation and factory cooperation.
*The link page described in Japanese only (a header image of its page is shown below). We can see outlook of tea products and faces of tea farmers.
I was so much impressed by their prominent attitude for tea cultivation and production! I hope you could feel their passion and enjoy communication with them and shopping of tea products!
How to access to the shop
Site: In the first basement of COREDO Muromachi
Useful page: https://31urban.jp/lng/eng/muromachi.html#access
(In this page, we can see the way to the shop in English)
Address: 2 chome-2-1 Nihonbashi Muromachi, Chuou-ku city, Tokyo 103-0022
Search: If you have a PDA, iPhone or something like that, please search “coredo muromachi ”, google map will depict the way to the shop. Anyway, the best way is seeing the page of COREDO Muromachi described above.
Drinking hot tea with sweet chin music provides the most comfortable time in the winter time. Giving a loose leaf tea of fine quality as a Christmas gift would result in happy time with your loved one or family.
Theanine, amino acid specific to leaves of tea plant, has various spiritual benefits, such as a stress relief effect, relaxation effect, improvement in concentration, upgrade of our sleep quality, and so on. In addition, aroma of fresh green and slightly sweet flavor could create the romantic atmosphere.
So, it is a great opportunity to buy a unique Christmas present for your loved one or family. Japanese tea would be one of the best candidates! As for Japanese tea, especially Shizuoka tea, there are many features suitable for Christmas mood, such as aroma and taste of fresh green, natural sweet flavor due to roast, good aftertaste..etc.
Hopefully, I wish you will spend a so nice time with Japanese tea in Christmas day!
