This is sencha. The first character is sen - fryied, second cha(tya) - tea.
The green box is upside down and I am too lazy today...
Sasha.

"Ben R." > wrote in message
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> Long story short: My mother has a friend whose friend visited Japan
> recently. She brought my mother's friend a tin of tea. She didn't
> really want the tea, so she sent it to me. I drink my fair share of
> sencha and had a brief affair with genmaicha, but drinking these teas
> certainly didn't teach me how to read and comprehend Japanese. I did
> however, manage to find the vendor's Website:
> http://www.chikumei.com/pages/english.html and its online shop:
> http://www.rakuten.ne.jp/gold/chikumeido but had no luck finding this
> specific product. So I took some photos and uploaded them.
>
> Packaging: http://tinyurl.com/2shvw2
>
> Product information: http://tinyurl.com/2rlq3y
>
> A photo of the tea (the flash has lightened it a bit):
> http://tinyurl.com/2pteaw
>
> The tea is a fairly dark green. It's amazingly fragrant. Given then
> fact that it's 150g leads me to think it is not likely gyokuro. In any
> case, can one of you please help me?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben
>