"Patrick Heinze" > ha scritto nel messaggio
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> Hi there!
>
> Next month I'll hit the road again...destination: Japan :-)
>
> I will travel from Osaka/Kansai Region to Sendai via Fujiyama and Tokyo,
and
> I've got plenty of time... Could anyone here provide me with information
> about teaplaces next to my route? I'd like to see some actual
> teaplantations and harvest (if possible at this time of the year), tea
> schools, shops....etc.
>
> Is there a website that lists tea plantations in japan?
>
> Also I'd like to taste some of the local teas. I kinda like all of those
> japanese gyokuru, sencha, kabuse-cha...etc that are imported to
> germany...but I want to taste the REAL stuff ;-) ...any recomendations?
>
> thanks in advance for any information
> Patrick
>
> --
> "But please remember: this is only a work of Fiction.
> The truth, as always, will be far stranger"
>
> Arthur C. Clarke, 2001 - A Space Odyssey

Shizuoka is on the Tokaido Shinkansen line. If you stop in Shizuoka, I think
you can spend half a day visiting the tea museum. Here is the address:

The Tea Museum (O-cha non sato)
3053-2 Kanaya, Kanaya-cho, Haibara-gun, Shizuoka-ken, Japan
TEL: [81-] 547-46-5588/ FAX: [81-] 547-46-5577

I have been there and it is a nice place to learn something about tea
history and production. I remember that Shizuoka station is not the closest
to the museum, so ask to the ticket office which is the right one.
Shizuoka area is also one of the bigger tea production centre in Japan, and
you can see many tea gardens there.

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