The Green Tea Masters of Shizuoka

Shizuoka Prefecture: when living in Japan, locals know it as the Green Tea Capital, but if you speak to foreigner visitors, it's a lesser known place.  And that's a shame because they've been lovingly growing, harvesting, and roasting over 40% of Japan's Green Tea for hundreds of years.  Yes, we’re very into coffee, but now that we’re living in Japan, we decided it was time to expand on our knowledge of Green Tea.

There’s no better place to do that than Shizuoka, and it's a quick 1 hour bullet train trip from Tokyo. We get to eat a rainbow of various green tea gelatos, play with a green tea kakigori mad scientist set, enjoy custom roasted and custom hand drip green tea, and speak with a multi-generational Eco green tea farmer to find out what "Eco Farming" really means. Thank you to Shizuoka for sponsoring this video and for giving us the chance to learn about Green tea like we never could before. 

If you’re interested in digging even deeper, Shizuoka has their own green tea magazine listing all the Tea Farms and many other Green Tea shops. For real. It’s that serious.

You can pick it up for free at the train station when you get to Shizuoka. Or download it here for free:
☞ https://www.ochanomachi-shizuokashi.jp/gcswp/wp-content/themes/gcs/common/img/tour_img/pdf/ochakonchiwa_en.pdf

And if you want EVEN MORE, we’ve got extra footage from our interview with the Green Tea farmer, with more insights on tea types and different growing cycles.
☞ https://youtu.be/9R74C5LKUYc

And here’s Shizuoka’s Official website on Green Tea
☞ https://www.ochanomachi-shizuokashi.jp/?lang=en

If you want to know more about Shizuoka Prefecture in general, here’s their website:
☞ http://www.visit-shizuoka.com/en/

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