Tea

Experience

Taihoan(Uji City Municipal Tea Ceremony House)

Serving Uji Tea with seasonal sweets in a true tea house. Feel free to come even if it is your first time.

 

 

 

Facility Outline (Opening days/times, fees, description, etc)	Open: January 10th - 20th December Opening hours: 10:00 - 16:00 Fee: Maccha or Sencha = 500 yen; Refined Gyokuro Tea = 700 yen; Sencha & Gyokuro Tea set = 1,000 yen; Weak Tea & Strong Tea set = 1,500 yen; Tea ceremony experience = 1,200 yen
Telephone number	0774-23-3334 (Uji City Tourism Association)
Fee	Charges apply
Location (Access from nearest train station)	Kyoto-fu, Uji-shi, Uji, Togawa 1-5 10 minute walk from either Keihan Uji Station or JR Uji Station
Car parking	None

 

Takumi no Yakata(Green Tea tearoom)

Enjoy learning about the best way to pour and drink tea, while talking about tea and taking in the beautiful surroundings of the Uji River, in this Tea Classroom. The tea instructors will patiently explain and teach to you the best way to prepare and pour tea. Cafe service is also available (closed on Wednesdays and for New Year Holiday period).

 

Facility Outline (Opening days/times, fees, description, etc)	Café menu: Maccha/Gyokuro/Kabuse Tea + sweet = 600 yen Tea Classroom: reservation required; available everyday except Wednesdays; up to 20 people; 11:00 - 12:30 or 13:30 - 15:00; 1,500 yen Chakabuki Game (complete reservation basis) available every day except Wednesdays; from 10 - 40 people; 5-types-5-rounds is 2 hours and 1,500 yen; 5-types-3-rounds is 1.5 hours and 1,000 yen
Telephone number	0774-23-0888
Fee	Charges apply
Location (Access from nearest train station)	Kyoto-fu, Uji-shi, Uji, Mataburi 17-1 200m upstream from Uji Bridge Higashizume intersection 5 minute walk from Keihan Uji Station; 15 minute walk from JR Uji Station
Car parking	Available

 

Sankyuan Uji Tea Laboratory

Here there are various objects on display, such as letters, tea pots, travel boxes, tea utensils, and Uji millstones of various regional daimyo warlords, which have been passed down by the family of Kanbayashi Sannyu, a teacher of the tea ceremony in the early Edo Period (1603-1868), who served tea to the Shogunate and many daimyo warlords. Furthermore, you can experience and learn how to grind your own high-quality maccha tea with a grindstone and serve it in the tea ceremony classroom.

Facility Outline (Opening days/times, fees, description, etc)	Maccha tea-making experience (reservation required) Use a millstone to first grind your own maccha tea, before serving it and enjoying it with a sweet. 09:00 - 18:00 (Open all year) (800 yen (excl. tax) Historical documents and items on display
Telephone number	0774-21-2636 (Mitsuboshi-en Kanbayashi Sannyu Honten)
Fee	Viewing historical documents and items: free Maccha tea-making experience: charges apply
Location (Access from nearest train station)	Kyoto-fu, Uji-shi, Renge 27-2 (Byodo-in Omotesando) 10 minute walk from JR Uji Station or Keihan Uji Station
Car parking	Parking available at south gate of Byodo-in Temple (Charges apply)

 

FUKUJUEN(Uji koubou)

As well as making tea and tea utensils in the workshop, you can enjoy tea ceremony in the famous tea room, tea-flavouring and cuisine, as well as purchase unique and original tea and tea utensils in the shop.

Facility Outline (Opening days/times, fees, description, etc)	Closed on Mondays Opening hours: 10:00 - 17:00 As well as enjoying seasonal cuisine and sweets made using tea, you can try your hand and grinding and making your own tea amongst other things in the workshop.
Telephone number	0774-20-1100
Fee	Charges apply
Location (Access from nearest train station)	Kyoto-fu, Uji-shi, Uji, Yamada 10 (Ujigawa, Asagiribashi, Tamoto) 8 minute walk from Keihan Uji Station; or 15 minute walk from JR Uji Station
Car parking	Available

 

Marukyu-Koyamaen(Plant tours)

After watching a video about maccha tea (English version available), learn about tea in the workshop. Afterwards, sample some fresh maccha tea. You can also try serving tea yourself.

Facility Outline (Opening days/times, fees, description, etc)	Tour of maccha tea factory and sampling (reservation required) Film showing, maccha factory tour, tea examination room tour, tea room experience, maccha tea sampling and serving experience Weekdays 10:00 - 12:00 and 13:00 - 16:00; lasts 90 minutes; from 2 to 40 people
Telephone number	0774-20-0909 (Tours section hotline of Marukyu Koyama-en headquarters) Kyoto-fu, Uji-shi, Ogura-cho, Terauchi 86
Fee	Free
Location (Access from nearest train station)	Kyoto-fu, Uji-shi, Makishima-cho, Nakagawahara 172-4, Marukyu Koyama-en, Makishima Kojo 5 minute drive from Kintetsu Mukajima Station
Car parking	Available

 

Gyokuro tea-making experience (Fugen-ji Temple Fureai-no-Eki)

Learn how to make the highest quality Gyokuro tea from the famous Yamashita Toshikazu and his students. Try your hand at making your own top quality Gyokuro tea from fresh tea. You can take home what you make, as well as try some top quality Gyokuro tea and learn about the serving methods from instructors.

 

 

 

Facility Outline (Opening days/times, fees, description, etc)	Gyokuro Tea-making experience (reservation required) Second Saturday of every month, from 09:00; 10-15 people Buy fresh and clean farm produce from local producers Closed on Mondays and Fridays 08:00 - 15:00
Telephone number	0774-62-4250
Fee	Up to 5 people, hand-made tea course: 25,000 Up to 5 people, scissors-made tea course: 20,000
Location (Access from nearest train station)	Kyoto-fu, Kyotanabe-shi, Fugen-ji Odagaito 62 5 minute drive from either Kintetsu Miyamaki Station or JR Miyamaki Station
Car parking	Available (30 spaces)

 

FUKUJUEN CHA EXPERIENCE PARK

Fukujuen Cha Experience Park offers the chance for people to interact with one another, with culture, and for other cultures to meet.
The park is a place to learn more about globally-loved tea, and appreciate it more.
Please enjoy the greenery of the tea fields and other facility tours.

Facility Outline (Opening days/times, fees, description, etc)	・North zone (classrooms, promotional rooms, world tea room) ・Centre zone (tea production room, foreign tea lab, tea ceremony rooms) ・South zone (Cha Hall) ・Tea fields (rock and tea garden, tea varieties plantations) For information on opening days, times, tours and experience content, please contact the park.
Telephone number	0774-73-1200
Fee	Charges apply
Location (Access from nearest train station)	Kyoto-fu, Kizugawa-shi, Saganakadai 3-1-3 15 minute walk from Kintetsu Takanohara Station 7 minute walk from Kintetsu Yamadagawa Station
Car parking	Available (*with prior notice)

 

Tea-making and chakabuki experience(Ujitawara Town)

Experience various types of tea culture in Ujitawara Town, such as tea-making, grinding, taste-guessing (chakabuki), learn about the best way to serve tea, and enjoy bento produced with local ingredients. Preferences can be accommodated. Free to participate tea-making exchange event held on second Sunday of May.

Facility Outline (Opening days/times, fees, description, etc)	Tea-making and chakabuki experience Every year, second Sunday of May, 09:30 - 16:00, tea-making, preparing, grinding, chakabuki, and preparation method experience: adults 1500 yen, elementary/middle school students 800 yen, younger children free. Tea maiden outfits, adults 1000 yen, children 500 yen
Telephone number	0774-88-4246 (Mokuso, extension 21 for Tea Furusato Juku Office)
Fee	Charges apply
Location (Access from nearest train station)	Kyoto-fu, Tsuzuki-gun, Ujitawara-cho, Minami, Hoka Take bus from Keihan Uji Station, JR Uji Station, or Kintetsu Shintanabe Station, and get off at Yakuba Minami
Car parking	Available

 

 WAZUKA-CHA CAFÉ

Warabi picking tour (with warabi bento). Sales and displays of local goods, crafts, and Wazuka Tea in the Wazuka Café.

 

 

 

Facility Outline (Opening days/times, fees, description, etc)	Warabi picking tour (Wazuka Town Revitalisation Centre)　 5000 yen per person Tour of Wazuka Tea Field Heaven with guide (negotiation available) 200 yen per person (300 yen per person for less than 4 people; group payment of 5000 yen for groups of 25 or more) Tea serving class (NPO Wazuka Tea Friends): 1000 yen per person, 2 hours, from 5 people Tea dango making (Koi-cha group) Onigiri making (Koi-cha grou) Tea grinding (Wazuka International Association): 1500 yen per person, 1 hour, from 5 people
Telephone number	0774ｰ78ｰ3396 (Revitalisation Centre) 0774ｰ78ｰ4180 (Wazuka Café)
Fee	Charges apply
Location (Access from nearest train station)	Kyoto-fu, Soraku-gun, Shirasu, Ohasama 35 Take Nara Kotsu bus from JR Kamo Station to Wazuka Yama-no-Ie, then 5 minute walk
Car parking	Available