Tea approved by Robuchon, Yame Traditional Gyokuro

Yame will celebrate its 600th anniversary as a tea-producing region in 2023. This anniversary project seems to be considered to be led by people concerned with the tea of Yame city right now. It was Fukuoka in the doorway of the tea transmitted from China nearly 800 years ago. It is related to a climate that West Japan plays a key role from Yame (Fukuoka), Chiran (Kagoshima), Uji (Kyoto) to Shizuoka as the famous production center of the Japanese green tea.

It was about half a century ago when Japanese green tea began to circulate all over Japan. But the ratio of Yame tea accounts for only 2.2% of the market.....