Japanese Green Tea

About 1200 years ago in Japan, green tea was highly valued and treasured as precious medicine. With the advent of new harvesting and processing techniques, it soon became the country's most popular beverage. Today, Japanese green tea's health benefits are widely known not only in Japan, but around the world.

Tea leaves and Matcha grown in Uji, Kyoto have played an important role in building traditional Japanese tea culture. Japanese tea culture sustained by Uji tea made an enormous impact on Japanese architectural style, habits, costume and cuisine, porcelain, lacquer, painting, and literature.

We, at Japanese Green Tea Hibiki-an, provide you with genuine Japanese green tea in convenient styles and prices for your every need.

Updated on January 28 '10:
We would like you to rediscover the value of our Houjicha items for monthly recommendation. You are sure to delight in the unique sweet and roasted flavor of Houjicha. The flavor is very smooth and the aroma lingers nicely for a while.
At same time we arranged two special Houjicha items, Houjicha Super Premium and Houjicha Karigane Super Premium. Each item is the limited edition of 200 packages only available this winter season.
For more information, please click here.

Updated on December 19 '09:
We, at Hibiki-an, will start to sell Blended Sencha today.
We have arranged to add three limited edition Blended Sencha teas. Each individual tea is more sweet and mellow than basic Sencha, characteristic of Gyokuro. But, it has a more refreshing aroma than Gyokuro, characteristic of Sencha. One of them is sold only at exclusive tea fairs in Japan, and has been developed in order to characterize each advantage of Sencha and Gyokuro. The other two items are composed of fine and unique breeds of tea with special characteristics.
All three teas are only available this winter season.

Updated on November 20 '09:
On the other day we added some New Gift Items to respond to customers' requests. They are all perfect for any special or romantic occasion.
Would you check them up once?
All of them will surely please everybody!

Updated on June 1 '09:
At last, almost of our most popular regular Sencha and Gyokuro items have been already replaced by new crop harvested in this May. You can see "The status of replacement of regular Sencha and Gyokuro items" by click here.
Celebrate the first tea harvest of the year and enjoy its wonderful fresh flavor!

Updated on February 13 '09:
We started to carry six best quality handmade Raku Yaki (ceramic matcha bowls) items. Four of them are patterned after the most treasured matcha bowls in Japan by the three great ancestors of Raku Yaki (Chohjiroh Raku, Kohetsu Honami, and Kichizaemon Raku), and two of them are the best quality and most elegant Raku Yaki Matcha bowls in Japan, which creates an atmosphere that attracts every viewer.
They are all subtly and finely created by Shohraku Sasaki, who is one of the most talented and traditional Raku Yaki artisans in Kyoto.

Updated on November 1 '07:
We created new reading page, "Choosing a Japanese Tea".
This page offers help for those who are new to Japanese green tea and would like to know which of our teas they might like the best. We hope this information about the different varieties of tea we offer here at Hibiki-an will help you to discover the perfect tea that is right for you.

Updated on August 13 '07:
We created new reading page, "Organic Tea Farm".
The advancement of each approach of organic and modern cultivation is completely different, and each has advantages. We, at Hibiki-an pay respects to both ways and would like to pass along an introduction to them.

Updated on July 23 '07:
We created new reading page, "Japanese Tea Ceremony". We would like to pass along an introduction to the Japanese tea ceremony as simply and comprehensibly as possible.
Would you see once?