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There are tremendous diversity in flavor and style of teas worldwide due to the spanning centuries of craft, thousands of miles of geography and terroir. In this event, various tea devotees will provide the variety of worldwide teas in respective … 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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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)
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“.