Tea and Uji Town Exchange Center "Chazuna"

Features of this Plan

• Trial Class

  

  The museum has installed the T-VOIX app, which is available in four languages: English, Korean, and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), and allows users to translate the exhibit commentary using their smartphones.

• Characteristics of Matcha

  

  100% Matcha, a food derived from nature, is a very simple food that is made by simply steaming and drying the picked raw leaves, sorting them, and grinding them. Therefore, the quality of the raw tea leaves is directly linked to the quality of the matcha. To make delicious matcha, it is necessary to be familiar not only with the processing and manufacturing methods, but also with the cultivation and characteristics of the raw tea leaves. Yamamasa Koyamaen originated as a tea farm, and is one of the few matcha manufacturers that still has its own farm. By carrying out the entire process from tea cultivation to grinding, we strive to produce high-quality matcha.

  Matcha is a fine powder with extremely fine particles (approximately 5 to 10 microns), so it is prone to absorbing moisture and odor, and is easily affected by light and fades easily. Another characteristic is that it deteriorates quickly when the temperature or humidity is high.

• Introducing our experience plans

  

  "Matcha making experience using a tea mill"

  This is an experience where you can make matcha from tea leaves!

  When tea leaves are ground in a millstone, a fine powder of matcha is produced!

   

  Grind your own tea in a tea mill and make matcha while looking at the tea fields and Uji scenery that spread out before you. You will drink the matcha that you made yourself under the guidance of a qualified Japanese tea instructor. Please enjoy this experience that is all about matcha, including the three elements of "grinding," "making," and "drinking."