Category Archives: Tea Harvesting

Is Japanese summer that bad?- AM blog by Mari (#11) [Summer 2025]

Everyone tried to warn me about the Japanese summer and every time I would respond with confidence: “I am from Italy, I will be fine”.  It was not. Summer has always been the strangest period of the year, full of very high ups and very low downs and…this year also was no different! Still, summer […]

May Tea News: Handpicking for Kansai Ichi! 🌱

On May 4th, Obubu hosted a handpicking event for the Kansai Tea Competition! Obubu staff, assistant managers, interns, and volunteers plucked fresh spring tea leaves from one of Akky-san’s fields in Monzen. Together, they picked 45.73kg of tea leaves, which were driven straight to the factory behind Wazuka-cha Café. Here, under the close supervision or Akky-san, […]

Hachijyu-Hachiya Shincha: An Interview With Akky-san

May 1st of this year marked the first harvest of Obubu’s new tea, and it happened to fall on Hachijyu-Hachiya, the traditional 88th night of spring. The tea we picked this time was the Yabukita cultivar, grown in the Shimojima area in southern Wazuka. Joining the harvest were Obubu’s president Akky-san, Saya, Tran, Chihiro, and […]