Fujinokuni Tea Museum

photo by photo: Qurren ( talk ) Taken with Canon IXY 430F (Digital IXUS 245 HS) · CC BY-SA 3.0

On the Makinohara plateau, among the plantations seen from its windows.

The museum, reopened in its current form in March 2018 after management passed from the municipality of Shimada to the prefecture, tells the history of Japanese tea, and of Shizuoka tea in particular, over three floors, with a tea room (9:30–16:00) where you drink a cup prepared according to the ceremony. It stands on the Makinohara plateau, one of the largest tea plantations in Japan, visible from the museum's own terraces.

Founded as ‘Ocha no Sato’ on the municipality's initiative, the museum was taken over by Shizuoka Prefecture and reopened with a new layout in 2018. It is the prefecture's main exhibition centre devoted to tea, and the prefecture on its own produces the largest share of Japanese green tea.

ℹ️ Open 9:00–17:00 (last entry 16:30); tea room 9:30–16:00 (last entry 15:30). Ticket 300 yen for adults (200 in a group), free for students, over-70s and people with disabilities with documentation. Free car park, about 80 parking spaces. Ten minutes from three different motorway exits in the area.

🚉 Kanaya · 19 min walk

Sources: city.shimada.shizuoka.jp · tea-museum.jp

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