but also “tencha” tea leaves that are ground when making matcha. According to the farm ministry, 25,800 tons of aracha were produced in Shizuoka Prefecture in 2024, down 5 percent from the ...

Shizuoka is home to Mount Fuji, an icon of Japan’s natural beauty. While the mountain is visible throughout most of Shizuoka Prefecture, it is best experienced by visiting towns like Gotemba and ...

Green tea is a major industry in Shizuoka prefecture ... a bulldozer ripped tea bushes from a field in front of a farm stay where guests visit to experience rural life. Yoko Miyake, who runs ...

Cherry blossom shrimp in Shizuoka. This includes Shigeta, a 15th-generation planter in charge of his family’s Ihachi Farm. Tea Terrace in the Sky – spectacularly perched 450m above the ...

To raise awareness of such issues and introduce Shizuoka green tea to the world, Akito Ohashi, who grew up on a tea farm in Shizuoka, began a tea-experience business called “The Tea Bridge.” ...

farm ministry officials said. According to the ministry, tea-growing areas in Shizuoka have shrunk 30 percent over the past 10 years or so, while those in Kagoshima have dropped only 5 percent.

situated in the Shizuoka prefecture in Japan, had been growing sencha green tea for over a century. Hattori wanted to find a way to make the farm more profitable. He landed on a solution ...

KIKUGAWA, Shizuoka -- A company producing and selling tea is making an effort to generate solar power here using equipment for growing leaves for "matcha" green tea powder in an effort to tackle ...

SHIZUOKA, Japan >> Saemidori tea leaves from Shizuoka Prefecture were sold for $4,270 per pound at a market in Aoi Ward, Shizuoka. The April 18 record was the highest price for tea leaves since ...

SHIZUOKA -- A tea manufacturer in this central Japan city famous for green tea production has become the first Japanese company to invest in the North African country of Morocco to make tea ...