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Syunpou Chaen is a tea company, which blends and refines crude teas brought from tea estates in Shizuoka and sells teas and related products in the retail shops. The retail shop of Syunpou Chaen locates inside the mall “Saclass Totsuka” … 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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Tea farmers can invent diverse flavors of black tea or oolong tea by controlling conditions of withering or oxidation, processing in some unique ways, selecting cultivars, elaborate management of their tea plantations etc. Especially withering process can be the … Continue reading
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Fujinokuni Terrace is a prominent restaurant which provide cuisines using a variety of local foods and some local specialty tea. A glass of a specialty oolong tea is served before lunch like aperitif. The specialty tea is “Hana Iro … 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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Local specialty teas can let us remember our feelings or memories in the travels. Let’s say, local specialty teas are memento of travels in each area. A black tea by “FRONT” remind me my memories in Shimoda. The black tea … Continue reading
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“FRONT”, the special shop locating in front of Shimoda station, sells various local products in Shimoda region, the tip of Izu peninsula. The name seems to be derived from the historical aspect of Shimoda as a front line for trades … Continue reading
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Himeji city had been established as a castle town of Himeji Castle. HARIMA-YA tea stand has been established since 1948 in front of Himeji Castle. The statue of matcha soft serve and the board describing soft serves of matcha and roasted tea are … Continue reading
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Himeji city had developed as a castle town of Himeji Castle. There are many traditional stores around Himeji Castle. Kobayashi Tea House (Its trades name is “Kobayashi Matsuju-en Co. Ltd.”) has been established since Meiji 8th, 1875. This tea store also … Continue reading
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“Fujieda Wakocha”, a local specialty black tea produced in Fujieda tea estate, had been launced by Mitsui Norin Co. Ltd. as a ready-to-drink. Mitsui Norin Co. Ltd., which is a subsidiary of MITSUI & CO., LTD., developed this black tea … Continue reading