THE CRAFT FARM
Abe Honyama, Shizuoka
SENCHA AT ITS FINEST.
Abe Honyama, the mountain that nurtures sencha’s highest expression.
WHAT IS HONYAMA?
Eight centuries of tea growing in the mountains of Shizuoka.
A mountain tea region along the Abe and Warashina rivers in northern Shizuoka City. Tea-making in Honyama has a history of about 800 years.
Mountain mist, clear water, the swing between warm days and cool nights — and the hands of people who know the land and read the leaves. All of this, layered together, grows a fragrant sencha.
Discover HonyamaOne leaf.
Many expressions.
Made seriously. Enjoyed freely.
Choose a tea to change the introduction.
Photo | THE CRAFT FARM · fields of new shoots
Sencha
煎茶
Mountain freshness, and a sweet, lingering finish.
Abe Honyama Sencha is made from leaves grown in Abe Honyama, Shizuoka, and finished with a light steaming. Its appeal lies in a clear liquor, a fresh aroma and a harmony of sweetness, umami and astringency. From a cup brewed in a kyusu teapot to lattes and sencha tonics, the ways to enjoy it grow with how you brew and serve it.
WHAT IS THE CRAFT FARM?
Carrying Honyama into the next era.
Eight centuries of tea-making live on in Abe Honyama. Sharing the value of these mountains, refined by generations of tea makers, with the world and carrying it forward for future generations is where THE CRAFT FARM begins. Tending the fields alongside farmers and learning the skills handed down to us, we keep exploring new ways to make and enjoy tea.
Discover our tea-making
FIND YOUR CUP
This tea, for your cup.
Start with a cup. The conversation can follow.
For your café or restaurant.
For cafés, restaurants and hotels. Bringing Honyama’s tea craft to the character of your venue.
See our teas for businessFor your everyday cup.
The aroma of the growing region, at home. For yourself, or as a gift for someone dear.
Choose tea at our online storeOpens the online store’s top page (external site, in Japanese). Please check availability in the store.
About the film and photographs
The photographs of tea fields, the tea factory and cold-brewed sencha come from THE CRAFT FARM’s official gallery “From the Fields”; the photographs of roasting, fresh leaves, a barrel used for tea ageing, picking under shade, new sencha shoots and the room for the koji-fermented tea are real photographs supplied by the owner (the barrel photograph is the supplied original DSCF8187.jpg, resized and compressed without generated edits or object removal). The YouTube film at the top is “想いを繋ぐお茶作り” (Tea-making that carries our hopes forward) from THE CRAFT FARM channel. It is separate from the planned 24-second film leading from Sri Lanka, Africa and China to TCF, which will be made once licensed overseas footage and real TCF footage for editing are ready. Overseas tea gardens introduce the world’s tea cultures and do not indicate land owned by, or sources used by, TCF.
A conversation
over tea.
Shall we think about tea together?
From choosing tea for your business to developing original products together.
First, tell us what you have in mind.
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