Tea Growing Region

Japan produces tea in around 40 prefectures, from Kagoshima in the subtropical south to Saitama near the cold-tempera...

Saitama Prefecture produces less than 1% of Japan's total tea output. That figure alone would put it in the minor lea...

The Uji River runs through a narrow valley south of Kyoto, and before sunrise, fog forms along it. Dense, slow-moving...

Most tea drinkers know Shizuoka and Kyoto. Far fewer know that the third largest tea-producing prefecture in Japan is...

Roughly 40% of Japan's green tea comes from one prefecture. The fields stretch across coastal plains, climb the flank...

Ishikawa Prefecture has one of the most unusual relationships with tea in Japan. Its climate is too cold for reliable...

Fog is the first thing you notice about Ureshino. It rolls in from the valleys before dawn, settling heavy and cool o...

Miyazaki is the largest current producer of Kamairicha — Japan's pan-fired green tea. Kamairicha still accounts for l...

Long before Shizuoka became synonymous with Japanese tea, monks were already cultivating tea in the mountains of Nara...

Fog rolls down from the mountains before dawn. By the time it reaches the valley floor along the Yabe River, it has s...

When the first-flush tea season begins in Japan each spring, it starts in Kagoshima. The warm southern climate of Kyu...