Photo: The Kurihara Summer, green fields, blue skies

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The Kurihara tea fields in summer, Yabemura, Yame, Fukuoka, Japan July 30, 2014

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Heritage gyokuro 2014 first flush photos from Kurihara Tea

Kurihara Tea Farm

Shop Kurihara Tea Yamecha gyokuro specialist, tea farmer Akio Kurihara sent these photos today: “Heritage gyokuro. All I want to do is make really really good gyokuro.” In the photos you can see 2014’s first flush growing. If you notice carefully the top of the...

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Tea farm ownership system at Kurihara Tea Farm

Kurihara Tea Farm

Yuji Kurihara of Kurihara Tea Farm shared with us his passion for the new tea farm ownership system. Tea harvesting at the “Tenku-no-chabatake” (literally “tea field in the sky”), a tea field with an ownership system. Those interested in owning a tea field, we’re still...

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Photos of first flush tea leaves on the tea fields of Shizuoka tea farmer Haruo Ogose

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Haruo Ogose, a tea farmer in Shizuoka who cultivates tea without use of fertilizers or pesticides, sent us these photos of his tea fields on April 21st.

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Onocha Tea Fields First Flush 2015 Photo (April 12)

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Shop Here for 2015 Shincha Tea The grand expanse of tea fields in Ono, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The new buds a brilliant green carpeting the landscape! Harvest is planned for the end of the month with shipments beginning early May!

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March 2015 Hachimanjyu tea field

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March 20, 2015. Tea leaf buds starting to appear at the tea fields in Yakushima Island, courtesy of Hachimanjyu Tea.

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Snow covered tea fields of Onocha, Yamaguchi Prefecture

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Onocha is a tea farm, factory, and retail brand in a hidden tea production region in Yamaguchi Prefecture on the southern tip of the main Japanese island of Honshu.

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Sayama tea fields, first flush 2015, Saitama, Japan

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Tea farmer Yasuhiro Yokota offers a warm good morning from Saitama where he is growing 2015's Sayamacha harvest. We'll be visiting him on May 10th

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Kyoto Obubu Tea Farms tea picking event report

Kyoto Obubu Tea Farms

On May 2nd, 2015, Kyoto Obubu Tea Farms held and invitation only tea picking event in their tea fields in the town of Wazuka, Kyoto.

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Video of Ashigara Tea Fields

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Video of beautiful green tea fields in the town of Minami Ashigara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

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How to choose Japanese tea

By partnering with a hundred plus artisanal Japanese tea farms and factories, we offer hundreds of green teas, and dozens of matcha, black tea, oolong tea, etc. Where do you start?

We recomend starting with Sampler Sets!