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The perfect cup of Japanese green tea

The perfect cup of Japanese green tea

By on Nov 14, 2019 in Asia, Food and Drink, Japan, Regions, Travel Miscellany
Mr. Nakayama is a third generation tea farmer in the Higashisonogi region of Southern Japan. He farms ten hectares of green tea plantation and showed me around his fields with views across the valley to the Omura Sea. The farm is in rural Japan and a world away from the frenetic Japanese city lifestyle, but