Introducing You to

the Home of Great Green Tea

After my grandparents married, they lived and cultivated green tea in the small town of Utsunoya, on the outskirts of Shizuoka, the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture. Utsunoya is well known historically because of the Utsunoya Pass, which leads to the town of Okabe, the 21st rest station in Hiroshige’s series of woodcuts titled 53 Stations of Tokaido. Utsunoya is also known as a place where Shogun Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the great 16th-century ruler of Japan, stopped to rest for the night.

Nasuno Teahouse is honored to offer the superb green tea organically cultivated in Utsunoya by Mr. Naoki Yamagata, sixth-generation farmer and third-generation green tea maker at Yamagata Nouen (farm), which has grown green tea since Meiji period in the late 19th century.

My first sip of Yamagata Nouen’s green tea reminded me of my grandfather’s tea when he steamed the fresh green tea leaves and kneaded.

Mr.Yamagata’s tea tastes just like my grandfather’s used to-clean and crisp and sweet. I fell in loved immediately.