Fukujuen Uji Kōbō

¥2,200 and forty minutes to grind your own matcha: last admission at 15:00.

You sit in front of a stone mill with a handful of tencha leaves (the leaf grown in the shade) and turn the wheel until green powder comes out: that is matcha, powdered tea, and you drink it there and take the rest away. In the other workshops you roll tea by hand as it was done before machines, roast hōjicha on a hot plate or shape your own cup.

Workshop of the tea producer Fukujuen, on the right bank of the Uji River next to the Asagiri footbridge and the central island. As well as the four workshops, it has a tea room, two cafés, a shop and a small tea museum.

ℹ️ Open 10:00–17:00, but for the mill the last admission is at 15:00, and the workshop lasts about forty minutes: ¥2,200 per person, from elementary school age up, every day except closing days. ⚠️ Closing days are irregular and are announced on the home page: check them before setting off, because there is no fixed day you can count on. Seven minutes' walk from Keihan Uji Station, fifteen from the JR station. The other workshops are hand rolling, tea roasting and shaping a cup in Asahi ceramics.

🚉 Uji · 8 min walk

Sources: ujikoubou.com · ujikoubou.com

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