{"id":1367,"date":"2014-05-03T01:02:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T16:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.koukaen-cha.jp\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2014-05-03T01:02:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T16:02:41","slug":"toyotasityou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/en\/2014\/05\/03\/toyotasityou\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Ota of Toyota City came to experience tea picking."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, May 2nd: Visit Takakoen&#039;s naturally-steamed tea garden<\/p>\n<p>The mayor of Toyota City came to visit us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC_0004_R.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1371\" alt=\"DSC_0004_R\" src=\"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC_0004_R-250x140.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With the tea pickers<\/p>\n<p>The cherry blossoms were hand-picked using the &quot;shigoki-tsumi&quot; method.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_5572_R.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1368\" alt=\"IMG_5572_R\" src=\"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_5572_R-250x187.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said, &quot;Picking the fruit with force is hard work.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_5577_R.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1370\" alt=\"IMG_5577_R\" src=\"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_5577_R-250x187.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our commitment to cultivation and hand-picking,<\/p>\n<p>The difficulty of securing tea pickers and their valuable skills<\/p>\n<p>We asked him about his thoughts on various natural and hand-picked cultivation methods.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_5576_R.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1369\" alt=\"IMG_5576_R\" src=\"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_5576_R-250x187.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>after that,<\/p>\n<p>Tencha farm of &quot;Asatsuyu&quot;, also known as the legendary natural gyokuro<\/p>\n<p>(Tea plantations where tea leaves are grown to make matcha)<\/p>\n<p>It was visited.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#039;m glad that the tea pickers were so proud of us.<\/p>\n<p>We would like to continue to preserve the tradition of natural and hand-picked techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for taking the time to come.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5\u67082\u65e5\uff08\u91d1\uff09\u9ad8\u9999\u5712\u306e\u81ea\u7136\u4ed5\u7acb\u3066\u6df1\u3080\u3057\u8336\u5712\u306b \u8c4a\u7530\u5e02\u9577\u69d8\u304c\u3001\u6765\u3066\u4e0b\u3055\u3044\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002  &#8230; <\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16,8,11,6],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information","tag-16","tag-8","tag-11","tag-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}