Today we all piled into a private bus headed for the iconic Mt. Fuji. The popularity of this honored landmark among the Japanese meant some traffic and a detour to a rest stop with some decent views of the peak from the mountain's northeast face.
After a very delicious box lunch which had incredible 'presentation, taste and texture' we were back on the bus to visit a Green Tea farm and factory operation. Given the amount of tea drunk in Japan, the size of the farm was considerable. The factory was basically an automated process with very specific steps in the process designed to maximize quality and preserve taste.This one factory produces over a million kg of tea every harvest season, which only lasts 4 months. The factory lies dormant in the interim.
Lastly, the informal tea ceremony gave us a chance to appreciate the very tea we encountered at the farm as well as the preferred process of consumption which is very respectful and representative of what the leaves mean to Japan.
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