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Good pairing tea and food provides us more satisfaction of meal. In some events in World Tea Festival, special chefs in the restaurants in Shimada city will serve meals using tea leaves and delicious dishes with the best match tea. … Continue reading
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Spring program of World Tea Festival in Shizuoka will be held from 13 May – 15 May. In addition to the official programs, related events will be held in each place from 23 April – 22 May. The main venue … Continue reading
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Makinohara has not only wonderful spots for sightseeing, this area has a variety of nice confectionery stores. As the biggest tea estate in Japan, the sweet shops make various confections including tea (mainly powdered tea). I’d like to introduce some … Continue reading
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Now, the best days of cherry blossoms have come! On Makinohara upland, we can look cherry blossoms blooming everywhere. Cute birds play with cherry blossoms. At every peak season of cherry blossoms, cherry blossoms are illuminated in … Continue reading
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Spring season is perfect to green tourism and sightseeing! Japan has multihued wonderful places to go and see. Makinohara area in Shizuoka pref. in Japan also has a variety of destinations for sightseeing. In the north-east part of Makinohara upland, … Continue reading
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Lately blue tourism has been getting popular worldwide. Makinohara area in Shizuoka prefecture in Japan is perfect to blue tourism!! In Makinohara, we can enjoy the view of Suruga bay beyond the beautiful tea gardens! As shown in the following. … Continue reading
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Speaking spring season in Japan, many people would recall cherry blossoms. Yes that’s right, however, not only cherry blossoms, buds of tea plants are also symbol of spring in Japan!! Buds of tea plants began to grow as it became … Continue reading
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The season of first flush of Japanese tea is almost 3 weeks from the middle of April to the beginning of May. In order to let people enjoy 1st flush earlier, tea farmers in Makinohara enhanced the growing of tea … Continue reading
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“NOZOMI”, which means “hope” in Japanese, is the local brand for green tea produced in Makinohara area and a certificate to guarantee the richness of umami by means of amino acid contents. JA-Hainan, one of the Japanese Agricultural Cooperatives in … Continue reading
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In the winter time, highly active tea farmers conduct an annual competition for the skill of tea plantation management in each tea plantation district in order to improve their skill mutually. In Makinohara area, tea farmers carried out the mutual … Continue reading