Good tea leaves make delicious milk tea”If the tea doesn’t taste good, the taste of milk would overwhelm it.” Mariko Tea produces pure domestic tea leaves. |
Committed to creating purely domestic black teaThe production of black tea leaves in Japan started when a man named Genkichi Tada brought the original Assam tea tree to Japan at the beginning of the Meiji era. Genkichi was already producing tea in Mariko, so he started black tea production from there. Muramatsu flew to Sri Lanka many times. He learned about the technology for more than 10 years from 1989, and finally reached the present form of Mariko Tea. |
Expanding pure domestic black teaMuramatsu flies all over Japan in order to spread the technology he acquired, and holds presentations and instructs other producers about the technology. ”Our president does not keep the technology a secret. Instead, he teaches it to everyone.”, one of the employees told us. The original tree which he continues to protect, and many years he spent on research, has been utilized in many regions to create an even better tasting Japanese black tea. |
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- Mariko Tea Factory, Niroku Muramatsu
- Shizuoka-shi, Shizuoka