This article once again is an update and a perspective of a now very old general article (here it is) about the production regions in Japan. Just like wine or coffee, when we talk about tea, one of the first… Read More ›
Tea producing area
The cultivars from Sayama
While I mentioned the Sayama-kaori cultivar in detail a few weeks ago, I have just put on sale two sencha from Iruma (the city of Iruma is the most important tea production area of Sayama tea) both made in from cultivars… Read More ›
Oolong teas from Taiwan to Sashima
For the second year in a row, I am offering Mr. Kimura’s Qingxin-wulong cultivar Sashima oolong tea, as well as a second this year, made with the Kanaya-midori cultivar. This producer works not only with a Taiwanese cultivar (Qingxin-wulong therefore)… Read More ›
Teas from Umegashima
It has been a few years now that I have been working with particular passion on Umegashima teas. This is one of the so-called Hon.yama tea production areas (the mountain region north of Shizuoka city), the most upstream along the… Read More ›
Murakami tea
Readers of the last newsletter saw a new production region added to Thés du Japon. This is indeed the first time that I have offered a Murakami tea. Since opening the physical store in Tokyo three years ago, my interest… Read More ›
A Qingxin-wulong from Sashima
It’s been quite a while since I posted on my blog. Without this being voluntary, the tea that I am going to discuss today is a continuation of my last two articles since it is a tea from Sashima, that… Read More ›
Senchas from “Nord-Kantô”, second part: Sayama
This 2nd part (long awaited?) is a bit late, but after having mentioned here the teas of Sashima, here is now those of Sayama, the most important and well-known region of tea production in the north of Tokyo. For details… Read More ›
Senchas from “Nord-Kantô”, first part: Sashima
Kantô is the region of Tôkyô and surrounding prefectures. To the north and northeast are the prefectures of Saitama and Ibaraki. The first is known for the so-called Sayama teas, produced mainly in the towns of Iruma, with the renowned… Read More ›
Kawane senchas II
For the rest of my Kawane teas, here are sencha from Moto-fujikawa. The cultivars Shizu-7132 and Tsuyu-hikari (itself from the cross between Shizu-7132 and Asatsuyu), were already present in my selection in previous years, so the big novelty is Shizu-kaori…. Read More ›
Kawane senchas I
My Kawane sencha selection is changing a bit this year. Remember, Kawane is a mountain production area in the prefecture of Shizuoka, located on both sides of the Ooi-gawa river, upstream from the town of Shimada. The first documents relating… Read More ›
Four sencha from Umegashima
For a few years now, I have been presenting sencha from Umegashima, Yabukita, but also a zairai (about which I have already spoken a lot in previous years) which is somewhat at the origin of my attachment for this small… Read More ›
Asanoka cultivar sencha & a few words about Kagoshima
With around 32% of tea production today, Kagoshima is, after Shizuoka (39%), the second largest Japanese tea producer. It is interesting to note that Kagoshima on the other hand represents 20% of the cultivated area and Shizuoka 40%, that is… Read More ›
2020 shincha, Sôfû from Tokunoshima Island
I think that for even very experiencedJapanese tea lovers, the toponym of Tokunoshima is not very familiar. It is indeed a small island of 80 km of coast located in the Amami archipelago south of Kagoshima. It is a sub-tropical… Read More ›
Sayama & Hon.yama, two Musashi kaori sencha
Comparing two different teas, different regions, different producers, made from the same cultivar is always very interesting. This is all the more so for the informed connoisseur when it is a very rare tea tree variety like Musashi-kaori. I propose… Read More ›
Two Yabukita from Umegashima
Here’s two sencha already online for some time, two sencha that may seem quite similar but yet quite different. These are two Yabukita from Umegashima (one of the area of the so-called Hon.yama tea growing region, north of Shizuoka, along… Read More ›
Japanese Tea Sommelier 