On 28 October 2021, the Nagasaki Ikedoki Tea team visited Sonogi Elementary School to host a virtual tea tour for the grade 6 students. Students learned about their local Sonogi tea (Sonogicha) via digital technology: Matsu presented videos of tea factory processing and drone footage shot over the scenic Sonogi tea fields, there was […]
Ikedoki tea will be hosting monthly tea tasting parties to connect with tea enthusiasts all over the world! Join us monthly as we drink and discuss a different tea and tea topic. We will talk about some history, touch on tea farming activities of the season, anything fun that we think suits the topic or […]
Ikedoki tea will be hosting monthly tea tasting parties to connect with tea enthusiasts all over the world! Join us monthly as we drink and discuss a different tea and tea topic. We will talk about some history, touch on tea farming activities of the season, anything fun that we think suits the topic or […]
Our tea tour on Saturday 21 November has been fully booked.If you are interested in booking a tea tour with us, please do not hesitate to contact us. You can reach us through email – fill out the contact form below – or through our Facebook or Instagram pages. We will finally be hosting two […]
We will finally be hosting two tea tours to visit Higashi-Sonogi in person this November! On Saturday 14 & 21 November, join us for a fantastic tea tour programme: including a visit to the scenic tea fields, walk around a tea factory, and taste lots of delicious locally produced teas. The tour is FREE of […]
Our online tea tours have now finished for this year. We hope to welcome you on another tea tour (online or in person)!Please send us a message if you want to be informed of when we have our next tours. Would you like to travel to a beautiful Japanese tea region to see where tea […]
How old is the longest-lived tea tree in Japan? The answer is over 300 years old! Currently, the longest tea tree in Japan is over 300 years old. This large tea tree is located at an altitude of 210 meters on the eastern slope of Mount Kokuzo, which straddles Higashisonogi Town in Nagasaki Prefecture and […]
Name: Nagasaki Ikedoki Tea Address: 133, Sonoghishukugo, Higashi-Sonogi town, Higashi-Sonogi district, Nagasaki Pref., Japan 859-3807 established: 1st Sept. 2020. Mail address: tea@ikedokitea.com Representative: Yasuharu Matsumoto
“Tea, please!” If you were to ask a Japanese person that, they would probably offer you sencha. In the West, most people think of tea as black tea, but for the Japanese, tea means sencha. When did sencha start to be drunk in Japan? There is no doubt that sencha, like matcha, was introduced from […]