Tea Industry and Culture Exchange Tours

Walking in Tea Plantations with Full of Aroma of the First Tea of the Season

[ Dates ]
May 2nd（Thu.）- 5th（Sun.）

[ Courses ]
The banks of the Oi-gawa River - JR Kanaya station～Shimada City Ochanosato Tea Museum～Mt. Fuji Shizuoka Airport. 11.5 km in total.

[ Contents ]
Held in the Fuji/Fujinomiya area and around the main venue, this special program could be enjoyed only during the Spring Festival. Participants took a stroll while enjoying the view and aroma of light-green fields full of the season's first tea. In addition to many tea plantations, the Fuji and Fujinomiya area contains Mt. Fuji, which was soon to be registered as a World Cultural Heritage site. Many people enjoyed viewing tea growing areas and tasting the season's first tea.

Green Tea Tourism（official tour program）

[ Dates ]
April 27th (Sat.）- May 6th (Mon.)

[ Venue ]
Various places in the Shizuoka prefecture

[ Contents ]
Participants enjoyed programs that they could experience in tea growing areas
only in the spring. Programs included experiences at beautiful green tea
plantations, tasting of tea cuisine and a tea factory tour.

Additionally, the following four tours were conducted: JR Central Sawayaka Walking, Walking in the Mt. Fuji, Shizuoka Airport and Makinohara Area, “Shizuoka: the tea capital” Experience Tour for Fujinokuni Exchange Student Goodwill Ambassadors and Foreign Press Tour.