Overview
Highly recommended for visiting a green tea farm and staying at the quiet cosy hotel “Rindou” in a beautiful countryside
Secret area for oversea travelers.
Itinerary
13:00 Meet with our English speaking guide at JR Shizuoka Station North Exit and start the tour by a chartered sedan ( or a van) taxi
13:40 Arrive at Ashikubo Tea works. Relaxing yourself with several kinds of tea, and a rest
13:40-15:00 Ashikubo Tea Works
Enjoy your favorite flavor and beautiful green tea scenery at the wooden terrace
(They serve not only green tea but also serve black tea, frozen, latte, etc.)
Enjoy shopping various kinds of tea
15:10-15:40 Shin Komyoji Temple、very close to Ashikubo Tea Works
16:00 Arrive at Resort Hotel Rindou,
8:00-9:00 Breakfast
9:20 Pick up by a chartered sedan ( or a van) taxi, for JR Shizuoka Station
Around 10:00 Arrive at JR Shizuoka Station, tour finishes.
Option
Mountain hiking to another wooden terrace and having a tea break
@4,500JPY/person
Approximately 20 minutes walk on unproved mountain path/ one way
We walk on an unpaved mountain path.
Not recommended for people who are not good at walking
13:40 Arrive at Ashikubo Tea works
13:50-14:10 Guided Hiking to the wooden terrace on a mountain.
14:10-14:40 Enjoy some flavor of tea at the farm’s wooden terrace
15:00 Go back to Ashikubo Tea Works
15:00-15:10 Enjoy shopping various kinds of tea
15:20-15:50 Shin Komyoji Temple、Very close to Ashikubo Tea Works
16:10 Arrive at Resort Hotel Rindou, Enjoy relaxing time, dinner, tasting of several kinds of tea, overnight
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- Ashikubo tea works
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- Ashikubo tea works
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- Ashikubo tea works
Ashikubo
Ashikubo River basin, a tributary of the Abe River.
Ashikubo, blessed with rich nature, is an area with a long history of prosperity in the tea industry.
It is the “birthplace of Shizuoka tea” where Shoichi Kokushi, a high priest of the Kamakura period
(1185-1333), sowed tea seeds brought back from the Sung Dynasty (960-1279).
In the Edo period (1603-1867), Ashikubo tea was widely known as “high-grade tea
for the shogun’s household.
Ashikubo has a long history with tea.
Even today, there are many tea plantations along the Ashikubo River.
Ashikubo Tea Works
Ashikubo Tea Works is a tea farming cooperative established in 1997
by approximately 50 tea farmers from Ashikubo.
The association aims to thoroughly manage tea plantations, produce safe, secure,
and delicious tea, and carries out a variety of activities to help more people learn about and drink tea
from Ashikubo, the birthplace of Shizuoka tea.
In addition, in order to continue to pass down Ashikubo tea and continue to develop it,
mid-level farmers teach younger farmers how to grow and replant, and are working
to protect Ashikubo tea.
Their management philosophy is to nurture young successors and spread Ashikubo tea
throughout the country and the world, and they study day and night and work hard as a whole to improve every day.
Shin-Komyoji Temple
Shinkomyoji is a Jodo sect temple that was relocated in 1977 in Ashikubo,
Aoi Ward, where the tea fields are spread out.
It is a popular spot for viewing the autumn leaves, which are at their best around late November
every year, and the path leading to the entrance of the shrine grounds is lined with trees
colored in beautiful red.
It is also a relaxing place where you can experience not only autumn but also the four seasons,
with cherry blossoms in spring and fireflies dancing in early summer.
Various events are held here, including the Kasamori Inari Festival held every May,
making it a temple that entertains visitors.
From Rindou (the hotel)
Welcome to the Forest Hotel.
Rindou is located north of Shizuoka City center, about 30 minutes by car
upstream of the clear Abe River, and further upstream of the Ashikubogawa River, which is a tributary.
This is also a region where aromatic tea is produced, guided by our ancestors.
Our roots lie in the way of life of our predecessors, who have been engaged in forestry
and agriculture in this area for generations.
Because Rindou is a small hotel, we value the once-in-a-lifetime experience
and want to be a space where you can always feel the warmth of human contact.