The town of Wazuka in southern Kyoto Prefecture has recently been ... The vista of the mountain tea plantations attracts many tourists. Discover how farmers running a popular guesthouse ...

Little did the leaves that legendarily floated into an open pot of boiling water next to Chinese Emperor Shennong in the 28th century B.C. know they would change the world. The combination of ...

From Shiojiri, 2.5 hrs by train from Tokyo, we'll ride the 400-year-old Nakasendo highway that linked Edo and Kyoto ... we scale the steep slopes of a tea plantation. A sleepy post station ...