"crymad" > wrote in message

> Is this stuff really that common?

Yes and no. It's know part of the hanami "good" that reappear in most shops
during the hanami season only, but I wouldn't know where to buy any today.
It's like Santa Klaus clothes, I wouldn't say it's common usually in Osaka,
but in season, you can see 50 persons wearing some on the same train
platform. Maybe in Kyushu, there follow less the crazy trends.

For the other flavored senchas, I have never seen any on sale, for the
reason I never go to the Parisian tea shops here, but they have been
extremely popular with young women in the recent years. Other people don't
know that exists.

I don't think you'd become a fan of such teas.

Kuri