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Shinkoju is the unique tea store which lines the widest variety of single-cultivar teas. The owner has many connections to tea estates and single subtle tea farms. In the same time, he acts as a Japanese Tea Instructor. He constantly … Continue reading
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As well as coffee, blending can expand the possibility and variation of tea flavor as we like. Local tea blenders develop the regional flavor by blending crude teas from various tea estates and adjusting the degree of firing (roast) according … Continue reading
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ITO EN newly opened a Japanese tea stall “Wa no Cha” in Mitsukoshi Nihonbashi on October 2017. ITO EN exhibits specialty teas corrected from all around Japan for sale there. Style of the exhibition is excellent! We can find the … Continue reading
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“Wa no Cha” is an excellent tea stall and shop established by ITO EN in Mitsukoshi Nihonbashi department store. The name of “Wa no Cha” means “Tea of Harmony”. As the name implied, tea, service, appearance, setting, hospitality, everything is harmonized in … Continue reading
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Hekikoen is a tea blender locating in Anjo city in Aichi prefecture. The blender has a retail shop near the Shin Anjo station on Meitetsu Nishio Line. I’d like to share the features of interesting teas which I met in … Continue reading
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Atmosphere of autumn makes me feel like strolling in the nature with awesome teas. Tokyo has various sites perfect for walking with sightseeing. The variety of teas enables us to select teas according to our feeling in each season, day or … Continue reading
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In Kimono Salone, Kimono beauties demonstrated tea ceremony. They conducted tea ceremony based on the Omotenashi hospitality mind, which is the key concept in this event. At the opening, a Kimono violinist and a Kimono flower artist performed the opening … Continue reading
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Full moon in October is known as a sign of mid-autumn in Japan, so-called “Chushu no Meigetsu”, which means a grace full moon in the middle of autumn. A charm of the fantastic moon let me take a midnight stroll … Continue reading
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NARUSAWA is a souvenir shop locating next to Nirayama Reverberatory Furnances, which is one of the sites of World Heritage “Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining“. The shop provides not only local foods including … Continue reading
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As it gets cooler, autumn tea shoots have been growing under the early autumn climate. The plucking of autumn tea shoots has already begun since the middle of September. In tea plantations, we can observe the progression of plucking. Tea … Continue reading