Information
Name of Host Company/ Kakuda Seicha
Name of Host/ Tatsuya Kakuda
Schedule/ 13:00 Introduction, Explanation of Schedule and Precautions → 13:15 Lecture and Tea Field Visit → 14:15 Lecture About Tea Processing → 14:30 Single-Origin Tea Tasting → 15:30 Tea Blending Experience → 16:00 Program Conclusion
Duration/ 3 hours
Dates/ Anytime
Meeting Time/ 12:55
Meeting Place/ Kakuda Seicha
Address/ 187-3 Joyomachi Kitakawauchi Yame City, Fukuoka Prefecture 834-1102Google map
Access/ By car: 20 min from Hirokawa IC or 25 min from Yame IC It takes about one hour by car from Fukuoka City (taking tolled highways)
Minimum Number of Participants/ 2
Maximum Number of Participants/ 6
Age Restrictions/ Middle school students and above
Price [Adult (tax included)]/ 6,000 yen
Price [Child (tax included)(age range for child rates)]/ ---
Languages/ Japanese (supplementary English text materials can be provided upon request)
Application Deadline/ 17:00, three days prior to the tour date
Included in the Tour Price/ Experience fee, tour fee, singleorigin tea for tasting, sweets, original blend tea
Things to Bring/ None in particular
Attire/ As you will be visiting tea fields, please wear comfortable clothes and shoes that you don’t mind getting dirty.
Accessibility/ Not wheelchair and/or baby stroller accessible
Remarks and Special Notes/
* In the case of rain, the tea field visit will be suspended and a lecture will be held indoors instead.
Please note that the teafield visit may also be cancelled due to rainy conditions the day before the tour as well.
Cancellation Policy/
20 to 8 days before the tour start date: 20% of the tour fee
7 to 2 days before the tour start date: 30% of the tour fee
Day preceding the tour start date: 40% of the tour fee
Before departure on the tour start date: 50% of the tour fee
After the start of tour or no-show: 100% of the tour fee
Travel Agency/ Fukuoka Prefectural Governor Travel Agency Registration #3-772 FM Yame
15. Learn About Oku-Yame Tea Through the Senses
Single-Origin Tea Tasting and Green Tea Blending
In the midst of Oku-Yame’s beautiful forests, Kakuda Seicha grows, processes, and sells tea through their own integrated production system. Learn more about the tea of Oku-Yame by immersing your senses through this hands-on program.
First visit a tea plantation tucked away in the forest with spectacular views. Touch the plants that will eventually become tea, and learn about tea cultivation and management as well as the unique characteristics of Oku-Yame tea. If the weather cooperates, you can also experience riding on the large machinery usually used to tend the farms.
Return to the Kakuda Seicha shop and learn about the process that transforms raw tea leaves into the finished tea product. Afterwards, enjoy a tasting of seven different types of single-origin tea, each bursting with its own uniqueness. You’ll also be able to create your very own original green tea blend. It’s an experience only possible at Kakuda Seicha, a tea grower that harvests a wide variety of cultivars.
Green teas are usually preblended and sold to stabilize taste and maintain quality. But as single-origin teas are grown by one variety per field, it maintains the unique flavors of its lands (described by the French loanword, terroir).
Please enjoy the wide range of aromas, flavors, and tastes of Oku-Yame tea, and find your very own one-of-a-kind green tea blend.