There is a unique service at cafes in our area, Aichi. It is called “?????????” or “morning service” but it means breakfast special. We often call it Morning. You can have the service usually at kissaten, ca…
30Jan13
Purifying your hands and mouth
I put the traditional sandals on. I stepped into the tea garden that was partially covered with snow from the night before. I have had a lot of chances to attend tea ceremonies lately, and this was already my third ceremony this year….
It’s been aeons since I updated! Well, more accurately, since some time late-September, a little over two months.This morning I’m drinking Dao Ren Tea from Mountain Rose Herbs, a pretty straightforward Zhejiang green tea, organic certified, that was s…
26Nov12
Smell in the tea room
What do you smell in the tea room? The aroma of green tea? Yes, it’s not only that. During summer we use the fragrance wood and kneaded incense in winter. To fill the room with incense, it is placed by the charcoals in th…
21Nov12
Space ship in Kyoto
What do you think this is??It looks like a chamber in a space ship, doesn’t it? Actually, this is a hotel that I stayed in Kyoto! If you are traveling around Japan, what are the choices for a reasonable accommodation? Capsul…
This subdued scenery with moss may be one of the reasons that will make me come back to Kyoto. I don’t like rain during any of my trips, but I’ll make an exception when going to Kyoto. After the rain, a stone pathway and greens look mor…
This weekend, I went to Kyoto for a trip. You can find some retro streets around Gion area, where I think a good place even for a walk. If you are lucky, you might be able to see maiko ladies. I had a chat and walked around and took s…
18Sep12
Tissue
Japanese consume 18 boxes of tissue per capita in a year. We are the most tissue consuming nation in the world. I learned it from a morning show the other day. They did a street interview about Japanese tissues to the foreigners visit…
12Sep12
Jake-gai book
There are some tea rooms that I have yearned for. They are not traditional ones. Their walls are trellis. In the photo that I saw online, the tea rooms emerge in the dark with the soft light slipped through from inside. The inte…
Min River Tea recently left a comment on my recent blog post More Is Not Better: How To Balance Freshness and Turnover for Small Tea Companies, highlighting something that I had overlooked in that post. This is the fact that companies with a business m…
