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Nestled in the Sasama district in Kawane, Shizuoka prefecture, Miyamaen is a family-run farm deeply rooted in its land and traditions for over 130 years. It’s currently run by its fifth-generation farmer.
Surrounded by lush tea fields and forested hills, Miyamaen produces not only high-quality tea but also a variety of agricultural products, including log-grown shii...
I’m a bit slow with the review of this tea, as I’ve already finished it over the course of a month. It’s one of the teas I’ve bought from Masuien at the World Ocha Festival last year, and also a farm I’ve visited as part of a tea tour i...
The 2nd farm in my recent tour of Kawane tea farms was Aitouen. It’s a small, family-run tea farm in Motofujikawa, Kawanehon, cultivating just 2 hectares of land.
The farm has been refining its craft for decades, ea...
Satomi Seicha was one of the tea farms in Kawanehon Town that I visited when I was in Shizuoka last month. During the visit, I had the pleasure of tasting many of their teas, including this particular tea alongside its machin...
This year, I had the opportunity to take part in the third round of judging for Nihoncha Award, an annual tea competition held in Japan. There are several tea competitions in Japan, but the difference with this one is that it brings the consumers closer to the producers through a public tasting and voting process.
Let me briefly explain how the Nihonc...