We participated in the Great Nagoya Tours Tea Picking Experience.

May 14, 2017 (Sunday) Nagoya University

We participated in the Great Nagoya Tours Tea Picking Experience.

Naturally grown hand-picked experience

First, picking tea leaves.

Currently, hand-picking of Sencha tea has ended,

Visit a naturally grown matcha tea plantation.

Takakoen is dotted with naturally grown, hand-picked tea fields.

One of them,

This site covers an area of 8 tan (2,400 tsubo).

Of course, everything is picked by hand.

The next row (near the front) of the image shows the finished picking.

The tea plants have already been cut down.

How to pick it:

"Shigoki-tsumi" is a method unique to Aichi Prefecture.

The experience took place in a slightly brighter tea plantation.

Tea picking experience Commemorative photo taken in a kasuri kimono

She also wore a tea girl costume.

Naturally hand-picked tea garden Hand-picking experience

The men also dressed up as tea girls to commemorate the occasion.

We also had the opportunity to tour the factory.

Everyone was serious about wanting to learn and discover more about tea.

It was a fun experience with lots of questions.

Dai Nagoya Tours Tea Picking Experience

Thank you to everyone who came.

Please come and visit us again.

Tea picking has begun

This year, we have been picking new shoots since April 27th.

First, the tea leaves that will become sencha (deep-steamed tea) are picked.

This year's new buds are growing freely and producing fragrant new tea.

Naturally grown, hand-picked

Every year during the May holidays, my children and their friends come to pick them.

Helping with tea picking

Hand-picked Sencha (deep-steamed tea)

In the past, local students would come pick tea leaves on their way home from school to earn some pocket money.

Children who have had the experience of picking them when they were young

Even though it's been a while since I last picked them as an adult, I'm still good at it.

Now that view is gone,

It makes me happy to see the kids picking them.

To preserve the traditional hand-picking method

I want to convey this message.

Featured in the Asahi Shimbun

Published in the Asahi Shimbun on May 15, 2016

An article was published about the tea picking experience at "Dai Nagoya University" that I went to on the 14th.

The Wakazono Community Center "Tea Range Team" held a tea picking experience.

Sunday, May 8, 2016

We had a tea picking experience with the "Tea Range Team" at Toyota City Wakazono Community Center.

This is an event hosted by the Wakazono Community Center in the area.

Every other year, we hold a tea picking experience at Takakaen's tea fields.

This time it was full in 10 minutes.

The tea leaves in early May are soft,

Unique to this time of year

We had the opportunity to experience picking the delicate new tea buds.

"It was fun," we received voices of joy and gratitude.

I'm happy.

Please come visit us again.

thank you very much.

Tea picking experience for foreigners

May 15, 2016 (Sun) 13:00

We held a tea picking experience for foreigners.

Tea picking experience for foreigners Tea girl costume

Tea picking experience hosted by TIA

Not just cars,

They came by train from Meitetsu Wakabayashi Station,

17 people participated, some of whom came by bicycle.

In a traditional natural tea garden

You can try hand-picking,

Factory tours and

You can also try tea rice and cold-brewed deep-steamed tea with matcha.

I'm glad that all the participants enjoyed themselves.

Some people even say they want to try picking tea leaves in earnest.

Thank you for participating despite the heat.

Please come visit us again.

Nagoya University students participated in a tea picking experience.

May 14, 2016 (Sat) 10:00~

Promoting lifelong learning

Students from Nagoya University came to pick tea leaves.

Experience tea picking in the season of fresh greenery ~Learn about tea from the highest ranking tea farmer in Aichi Prefecture~

So,

This time, we picked tea leaves in a naturally cultivated tea plantation.

The subtitle says "Let's learn about tea."

The owner's explanation is very enthusiastic.

Even though it was hot, everyone listened attentively.

thank you.

Takakoen Natural Tea Farm Hand-picking Experience

In a traditional, naturally-trained tea plantation,

You can experience the picking method, "squeezing picking."

Takakoen Tea Picking Experience

Since I had the chance,

Wearing a kasuri kimono,

Commemorative photo.

It was also worn by men.

There was also a tour and lecture at the factory.

Please listen carefully,

It was a happy time.

Dear members of Greater Nagoya University,

Thank you for coming.

Please come visit us again.

Wakazono Elementary School held a tea picking experience.

Local elementary school

144 fifth graders from Wakazono Elementary School came to experience tea picking.

As part of learning about the traditional tea industry in the region

As part of our comprehensive learning, we had the experience of picking tea leaves.

The fifth graders listened to what I had to say seriously.

This time, it's Isshin Niyo (one core, two leaves)

Pick it up with.

The children carefully pick the fruit.

···thank you.

Did you pick it?

The tea leaves are taken home,

You can make new tea or black tea at home.

You can enjoy it by making it into tempura.

Thank you to all the fifth graders for coming.

The accompanying teachers, volunteer mothers and fathers,

Thank you for coming despite the heat.

Please come visit us again.

Tea picking experience and tea-filled lunch

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

In collaboration with Hidamari-kai,

A very popular experience event every year

We held a "Tea Picking Experience & Tea Lunch".

Tea picking is done in a machine-harvested field.

How to pick two leaves and one stem

It's a simple experience.

Wearing a kasuri kimono

Commemorative photo.

After the experience, you will enjoy a tea-themed lunch, including tempura made with the tea leaves you picked.

It was a packed event.

To everyone who participated,

To everyone who cooperated,

Hidamari-kai,

Orange Mama,

thank you very much.

Tea picking began on April 26th.

This year has been warm and growing well.

Tea picking began on April 26th.

Takakoen offers Sencha tea leaves and

Matcha tea leaves are hand picked.

Takakoen Deep-steamed, hand-picked tea garden

First, we start by hand-picking the tea leaves from the Sencha and Fukamushicha tea fields.

When you enter the tea plantation, you will be greeted by the refreshing aroma of new tea.

Tender new shoots

Tea pickers put their heart into it

They pick it by hand.

Picked only once a year

Naturally hand-picked tea leaves.

The aroma from the tea plantations suggests the arrival of delicious new tea.

Landscapes we want to preserve for the future

It's a landscape we want to preserve for the future.

In May of last year, he came to Takakaen, a naturally grown, hand-picked tea plantation, to paint a landscape painting.

Toyota Municipal Museum of Art

At the "Toyota Landscapes to Preserve for the Future" exhibition

It was exhibited.