Tea is classified into six categories: green tea, white tea, yellow tea, blue tea (Oolong tea), black tea, and dark tea. This Site introduces various teas that CHAMART has drunk.

Green tea
Unfermented tea
Production area: Kumakogen Highlands, Ehime Prefecture
Flavor: Umami flavor with an aroma like the sea breeze, similar to seaweed
Tama (玉) means “a ball, jade, etc.” in Japanese. The shape and color of tamacha are round dark green lumps.
The tea has a good umami flavor like gyokuro which is a refined green tea, and has a mild bitterness.
Tamacha is generated during the sencha-making process, and these are usually unsellable. Thus, the price of tamacha is very reasonable in comparison with sencha.
Sencha is steamed green tea.

Tamacha at Ishizuchisan Service Area (up line) (January 2023)

The tamacha in the photo was bought at the Ishizuchisan Service Area in Saijo City, Ehime Prefecture, Japan.

Kumayama deli-labo buys tamacha from the tea farmers of Kumakogen Highlands and sells tamacha.
Kumayama Deli-labo processes and sells using the local vegetables cultivated in Kumakogen Highland to reduce food loss.
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*The site does not describe all “Teas of Japan” or all “Teas of the World”. Additionally, each article expresses the writer’s personal experience and feelings.
*The information provided on this site may be updated. If you find any information in this article that is incorrect, new, or incomplete, please contact CHAMART.