This company carries out all processes from the cultivation of tea plants to the production of end item tea. This type of tea enterprise is called as “Jien, Jisei” in Japanese pronounce, which means “Cultivation in the own farm and production in the own factory”.

In addition, this factory has the own retail store in front of the factory. In the store, the wife of “Tecchan”, the owner the farm and factory, will welcome us and with a nice hospitality. In this store, she will brew a cup of tea in front of us. In the author’s opinion, their tea has a specialty in the sweet taste. In general, “Fukamushi-cha”, deep-steamed tea, has mild and slight sweet taste. In addition to such taste, their tea has sweet note oriented to fresh-green. When I drink the tea, at first I felt natural mild sweetness, due to umami (amino acids) and perhaps some polyelectrolyte such as pectin, and then, fresh green aroma made me feel sweet taste. Taking about my impression with Tecchan, he told “Though there are different impressions, thankfully, many people say has various good impressions. Enable creating such original feature of tea is the strength of our small factory.”