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On 21st Feb., Makinohara city and local tea stores held a wonderful tea event, named as “Makinohara concerto” in a traditional temple “Sekiyuin”. In this event, participants enjoyed a variety of teas and sweets provided by local companies, exhibition of … 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
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Shizuoka has multihued agricultural products more than 400, and every products are fine quality. This is the reason why Shizuoka is called as “Food-Capital of Japan”. In addition, agricultural products of finest quality are called as “Agricultural Artifacts”. In this … Continue reading
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Lately, cold days and warm days come alternately. Tinge around tea plantations tinging the doorbell of spring as follows. Japanese plums “Ume” around tea plantations. Beyond the plums, tea farmers were going to their own tea plantations. In the winter … Continue reading
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On the way back to the office or my home, nice scenes come into my view in night times. I’d like to show such nice scenes for you. Creeping night on the tea plantation. The moon on the top of … Continue reading
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The owner of Mukasa-En, MUKASA Yasuyuki, is one of the most prominent tea farmers in Japan. His technique of tea cultivation and production is so sophisticated that tea farmers visit him to study his skills from many areas of Japan. … Continue reading
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On 4th Feb., a workshop was held in order to sophisticate not only the technique of black tea production but also the ability to express how good one’s black tea is. Kanazawa Yuu made some lecture for 10 participants. She … 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“.
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Colorful leaves and flowers make us happy! We can enjoy autumn crimson and yellow along with evergreen tea plants in Makinohara plateau, especially on its terrace sides. Cold dry air and sunshine create fantastic scenes and beautiful landscape. Tea leaves … Continue reading