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Chakura, the retail section of Kikusui Tea Production Cooperative, produces loose leaf tea of Tsuyuhikari, named as “Emerald-no-Shizuku” which means emerald dew in Japanese. As written before, Tsuyuhikari is one of the cultivars of tea plants (Camellia Sinensis). It has … Continue reading
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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
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“.
In Japan, the traditional event of new year sale so-called “Hatsu-Uri” is performed at the beginning in January in many retail stores. Tea products, of course, are sold in “Hatsu-Uri”.
As for more information about “Hatsu-Uri”, the webpage of JapanVisitor is recommended.
In my personal opinion, the atmosphere in “Hatsu-Uri” makes sellers more spirited and customers more exited! In Japan, there is a proverb meaning “Setting one’s ambition at the beginning of a new year is the key of the successful year”. I guess we may be exited by our hope or ambition for the new year in order to achieve a successful year by making beginning days better.
Some tea farmers in Shizuoka will join the new year sale.
Hasegawa-san will join the new year sale held on Odakyu dept. Machida in Machida city, Tokyo.
In “Hatsu-Uri” we could enjoy communication with Hasegawa-san, more spirited than every time.
If you have some time, it is recommended to enjoy communication with Hasegawa-san and shopping tea products. Machida city is not so far from Tokyo station. It will take about less than 1 hour to go to Odakyu Machida branch from Tokyo station.
If you would like to get some souvenir, “Tsuyuhikari” is the most recommended! Hasegawa-san said “I could produce one of the best “Tsuyuhikari” in 2015. The amount of Umami content was higher than every year by 1 or 2 points!” In fact, tasting “Tsuyuhikari” of him realized me his comment is correct and made me surprised by so much delicious taste of it!
How to access to Odakyu Machida branch
Based on the webpage of the store, Odakyu Machida is in the building of Machida station.
As for how to make railway plan, please search using “JNTO Travel Planner”. (At the below part of this link page, we can look “-> JNTO Travel Planner”.)
If you would like to go from Tokyo station, please go to Shinjuku station by JR-Chuo line, and exchange to Odakyu-Odawara line. It will take 35min from Shinjuku to Machida.
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.