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Step into Shizuoka’s tea fields for a private, two-hour lesson in tea picking, tasting, and traditional processing. Learn how elevation, soil, and timing shape flavor while sampling multiple local teas.
Step into Shizuoka’s tea fields for a private, two-hour lesson in tea picking, tasting, and traditional processing. Learn how elevation, soil, and timing shape flavor while sampling multiple local teas.
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Operated by Holiday Travel · Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture
Morning mist hangs low over rows of bright green, and the first leaves glisten like coins waiting to be claimed. This private tea-picking tour places visitors directly in Shizuoka’s working plantations, where guides show the precise pinch and motion used to harvest young tea shoots. The fields slope in neat contours, and the air smells of warm earth and freshly cut stems—the land itself nudging you toward a better cup.
easy.
2 hours.
Suitable for most fitness levels—requires light walking across farm rows and brief crouching or bending.
Yes—the tour uses LINE for group communication after booking. If you cannot use LINE, contact the operator before arrival to arrange alternatives.
Yes; the tour is family-friendly. Infants must sit on an adult’s lap during parts of the experience and light walking is required.
You will receive a set of tea samples as a commemorative gift; bring a small bag if you want to transport additional picked leaves, subject to the farm’s rules.
This operator does not automatically cancel for bad weather; check with your guide via LINE and follow their instructions—dress in layers and be prepared for light rain.
Shizuoka evolved into Japan’s foremost tea region through Edo-period cultivation and later mechanization; historic wooden factories still illustrate 19th–20th century processing methods.
Many local farms practice reduced pesticide use and soil-conservation on terraced slopes; visitors are asked to follow trampling routes and avoid leaving waste.
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