N° 03 · Tasting Notes
Bright, vegetal, a long marine finish.
Steep · 70°C90 sec
N° 03
Kagoshima Sencha
Spring Harvest
¥3,400 / 80g
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Honyama, Shizuoka
Tea / Sencha / N° 05
Shizuoka Sencha
Single Cultivar · Yabukita · Honyama, mountain-shaded
¥3,800 · 80G TIN
Cultivar
Yabukita (single)
Harvest
May 2026
Steep
90 sec · 70°C
Caffeine
Medium
Yield
32 cups / tin
Honyama is a high, river-fog valley north of Shizuoka city — slow morning shade, narrow rows, hand-rolled tea. The cup is bright spring-green, with a delicate marine sweetness and a clean astringent finish that lingers like wet stone.
A single-cultivar sencha is the easiest way to learn what yabukita tastes like — bright, then savoury, then quietly long.
- 01 · WaterFiltered · 70°C
- 02 · Tea5g per 150ml
- 03 · First steep90 seconds
- 04 · Second steep20 seconds, 80°C
- 05 · Third steep60 seconds, 85°C
From the Imai family, third-generation Honyama growers. Hand-picked on 4 May 2026 — eighty-eight nights after risshun, the auspicious day in the old almanac. Steamed for 45 seconds and rolled by a single craftsman over twelve hours.
All orders ship from Kyoto on Tuesdays in unbleached kraft paper. Standard ¥800 · free over ¥10,000. International EMS available at checkout.
— A single voice in the tin. Listen for the second cup. — Hina W.
