Wazuka
和束 · わづか · Wazuka
Kyoto · Japan
Wazuka Town is the most concentrated tea-growing area within the Uji region of Kyoto Prefecture, supplying roughly half of all "Uji tea" by volume. The mountainous terrain forces step-terraced cultivation and the morning river fog suits both shaded gyokuro /tencha and the higher-grade unshaded sencha for which Wazuka farmers have built their modern reputation. The town is also the centre of the Japanese single-cultivar (tankoucha) movement.
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Latitude and longitude: 34.78, 135.93