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World O-Cha Festival in 2016

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World O-Cha Festival will be held in Shizuoka prefecture in spring and autumn 2016.

The spring festival will be held between 5/13 and 5/15, and the autumn festival will be held between 10/27 and 10/30. The details are described in the official website.

The overview of its program is almost prepared and the details will be arranged till the festival.

The festival has various programs such as the collaboration with music, garden making, flower, pottery making etc., tea tourism, exhibition of teas and the related products, tea ceremonies, seminars and so on.

It is not necessary to apply. Please enjoy freely.
Additional information will be posted in “Event” and “Guide for trips” pages.
And if you need more additional information, please contact the organizer by e-mail, whose address is described at the bottom of its official website.
(It is also possible to contact through this blog comment, I cannot guarantee to reply all comments)

We can get Shizuoka tea of fine quality in Tokyo “Ocharaka”

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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.

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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.