Visitors can watch and drink matcha (powdered green tea) from Uji, famed for its tea farms, prepared and served in the sadō tradition. The tea is accompanied by a seasonal Japanese sweet and a ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The government is considering measures to prompt Japanese green tea farmers to shift more production to "tencha" leaves that can be ground into matcha powder, from "sencha ...

The production process of sencha differs from that of other types of green tea ... on the plantation. The most exclusive type is Ichibancha, which comes from the first harvest. The Japanese ...

FUKUOKA--The cover of a new magazine shows a woman sitting on an “engawa” veranda with a cup of green ... (Summer in Japan--Summer of Japanese tea), features a vast tea plantation under ...

IRUMA, Saitama Prefecture--Shipping Japanese green tea to India, one of the world ... While they talked with Matoba online and visited his plantation, the students shared ideas to make Sayama ...

Japanese green tea is appealing not only due to its taste ... Connoisseurs can also detect variations in the taste of tea from different plantations. The most exclusive is considered to be ...