Kyushu is Japan’s southernmost island and its tea gardens thrive in the north- ern and southern regions. Kyushu Island was once considered the gateway in- to Japan from China and Korea. To the north of Kyushu lies one of the world’s largest volcanoes, Aso-San, with a huge five peak caldera. |
Kyushu has been growing tea for centuries and has kept up with the times (as far as their tea industry is concerned).From the fields, where the tea is planted in perfect, concise rows allowing for large high volume mechanical harvesting machines that give an even pluck, to the shiny bright state- of-the-art factories that process it, the tea industry here is one of the most modern and efficient. Because Kyushu is the southernmost tea Japan, spring arrives |
be any tea harvested first, from sencha to tencha to matcha.
Kagoshima prefecture lies to the south and is Japan’s second largest Kagoshima’s climate is ideal for growing tea, with warm air and cool Other teas grown in Kagoshima include kam- The best matcha is also grown here, coming Because of the large areas of flat terrain, Because it can produce large quantities of tea economically, Kagoshima produces the They also grow Kagoshima sencha and a tea that’s called “gyokuro Going north you’ll find the Kumamoto and Miyazaki prefectures which Last but not least is bancha which grows in all three tea producing regions, Uji, Bancha leaves are larger and tougher, but as the season The end result is a more lemony tasting, lighter tea. It |