Tea Travel

While summer has already come, I still wanted to share this tea from spring because I helped pick the Cherry Blossoms last year when I was an intern at Obubu!

One fact that many people don’t know is that 99% of all tea is machine harvested in Japan. However, every year, there is a select amount of teas that are …

Over a month ago, my 4 and a half month tea trip to Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan came to an end. What an adventure! Now I’m back after an …

Teas Provided by Kyoto Obubu Tea Farms Kyobancha is a green tea that is unique to the Kyoto region. I was fortunate enough to experience this tea from farm to …

While in Japan, one thing I really wanted to do was to visit some tea shops, as well as, see a tea ceremony in Kyoto! Last weekend, I had a …

Teas Provided by Kyoto Obubu Tea Farms For the last two weeks, I have talked about matcha tea ceremonies, matcha tea utensils, and now it is finally time to talk …

Last week, I had a chance to see a tea ceremony and try portions of it out! This week, I thought that it would be interesting to follow that post …

As part of my trip to Japan, one thing I wanted to experience was a tea ceremony! Luck would have it that last Sunday in Wazuka, the town Kyoto Obubu …

Teas Provided by Kyoto Obubu Tea Farms Last week, I wrote about shaded (Kabuse) green teas and I said that I would talk about unshaded (Roji) teas this week. However, …