Azuma Tea Garden

Meet the Producer

Azuma Tea Garden is a family-operated tea farm established in 1868. They started with producing sencha that they hand picked and hand rolled. As the farm grew and more technologies became available they kept honing their production methods. The farm is currently led by fourth and fifth generation members of the family. The fourth generation farmer shifted the farm to focus on tencha production and also started shifting the farm towards organic farming. Currently Azuma Tea Garden does not use pesticides on any of its fields, and it is in the process of getting all its fields to be certified organic.

Teruko Azuma has been farming tea for almost two decades now at Azuma Tea Garden. She is originally from China and met her husband while visiting Wazuka. They got married and she too started working on the farm. She has become very skilled in both farming and processing tea, and has also gotten certified as a Japanese Tea Instructor. Now she is the face of the farm, and helps both produce and promote their teas, and even helps nearby farmers in the process of changing to organic production.

They are located in the mountains of Wazuka, Kyoto, where they mostly focus on producing tencha. They also farm a variety of other delicious teas such as sencha, wakocha, hojicha, kamairicha, white tea, and oolong tea, making them a very versatile tea farm.

Get to Know Wazuka

Wazuka in Kyoto is one of the main production regions of Uji tea. Tea has been grown there for over 800 years. The area is known for its beautiful mountains, clean rivers, fresh air and rich soil, which make the region perfect for farming tea. Azuma Tea Garden is located in a particular remote area of Wazuka, away from train lines or big roads. The scenery of endless seeming tea fields is designated as one of Kyoto's cultural landscapes.