“Tea that children want to drink together”

Business purpose and purpose

In 2022, the Shizuoka City Board of Education launched the “School Lunch Tea” project.

In recent years, elementary and junior high schools in the city have been providing rice lunches three out of five days a week, and the “tea in the kettle” that had been provided for a long time has been discontinued, and the current beverage is milk.

Therefore, from the perspective of dietary education “tea education”, on rice school lunch days, students bring their own bottles of tea from home, allowing them to naturally become familiar with tea in their daily lives from an early age, and to form a taste for tea. This is a business that was started with the aim of encouraging

In 2024, we will create content to help children learn about tea culture, history, and cultivation and manufacturing in their hometowns, and provide each child with the tea they want to drink, thereby further deepening their knowledge of tea. We continue this business with the hope of deepening our knowledge and promoting taste formation.

In this project, judges selected from the general public conducted a preliminary screening of 100% Shizuoka-produced teas submitted by tea wholesalers in Shizuoka City, and selected more than 10 teas. After that, a second screening was conducted by all 6th grade students in each ward of the city (Aoi Ward: Chiyoda Elementary School, Suruga Ward: Higashi Toyoda Elementary School, Shimizu Ward: Iida Elementary School), and finally 4th to 6th grade students from all schools in the city were selected. The tea that will be served has been decided. (Tea from our Kanehachichaen was also selected.)

We will continue to put all our efforts into this project with the hope that by drinking tea that has been painstakingly made by local farmers and tea wholesalers since childhood, people will deepen their interest in tea and their attachment to the tea of ​​their hometown. I will work on it.

Tea that everyone wants to drink together

Production area: Honyama tea production area (Kiyosawa)
Variety: Yabukita
Features: [Tea selected for the “Tea for Children to Drink Together” project sponsored by the School Lunch Division of the Shizuoka City Board of Education]
This is the “Asamushicha” of the “Yabukita” variety, grown on the slope of a steep mountain at an altitude of 800m, upstream of the Warashina River that runs through Shizuoka City.

Honyama tea is said to have been enjoyed by Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu. Honyama is the birthplace of Shizuoka tea, which has inherited such a long history and tea culture, and is a tea production area that has continued to produce high-quality tea. The tea leaves are thin like needles and are a traditional “lightly steamed tea.” The color of the tea is golden and transparent, and the taste is elegant, gentle, and refreshing, and it has the unique scent of mountain tea.

Founded in 1891, Kanehachichaen uses unique techniques that have been passed down over its 130-year history, and young tea masters mobilize all their five senses to create this unique tea. I would like as many people as possible to know the deliciousness of this “Honyama Tea”.