N° 04 · Tasting Notes
Toasted barley, caramel, an evening tea.
Steep · 95°C30 sec
N° 04
Kyoto Hojicha
Roasted
¥2,800 / 100g
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Wazuka, Kyoto
Tea / Genmaicha / N° 06
Wazuka Genmaicha
Sencha & toasted rice · Comforting, low-bitter
¥2,200 · 100G JAR
Blend
60% sencha · 40% rice
Harvest
Spring 2026 · Rice toasted in-house
Steep
60 sec · 80°C
Caffeine
Low-Medium
Yield
50 cups / jar
Bright sencha leaf folded with home-toasted rice — the cup pours a pale gold, popcorn-sweet up front, then green and grassy underneath. The most comforting tea in the house; the one we make when the rain starts in Kyoto and the kettle is already on.
A handful of matcha powder stirred in turns this into matcha-iri genmaicha — try it once.
- 01 · WaterFiltered · 80°C
- 02 · Tea6g per 200ml
- 03 · First steep60 seconds
- 04 · Second steep30 seconds, 85°C
- 05 · With matchaWhisk 1g matcha into the cup
The sencha base is grown in Wazuka, the hilly tea district south of Uji. The rice — short-grain Koshihikari — is toasted in our Kyoto kitchen until the kernels just begin to pop, then cooled on a cedar tray and blended at 40% by volume. A fresh-blend batch is made every fortnight.
All orders ship from Kyoto on Tuesdays in unbleached kraft paper. Standard ¥800 · free over ¥10,000. International EMS available at checkout.
— The comforting cup. Toasted rice, kept rain, kept kettle. — Hina W.
