Tea picking has begun.

Tea picking began today, April 30th, 2015.

First, let's start with the tea plantations where the deep-steamed sencha tea is made.

Takakoen Hand-picked Deep-steamed Tea

In very good weather

Tea picking

We got off to a good start.

My daughter, an elementary school student,

I joined from 7:30am.

Today is a substitute holiday, so

I'm excited.

(The one on the right is after it was removed.)

Tea picking will continue for about a month from today until the end of May.

For a while, we'll be picking sencha tea leaves.

Afterwards, we picked matcha tea leaves.

We will all pick them by hand.

If you are interested, please contact us.