Hello everyone!

No matter you are our new friend or who already known us for a long time, we have good news to tell you, that we just added a new function on our website!!

If you are interest in our tea, you can try them easily now.

The thing that you just need to do is, fill out the form of sample request, and it only takes around 1 week for our delicious tea to your place.

(*The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a global reduction of flight. Accordingly, acceptance of international mail items to some countries is temporarily suspended and delivery delays are expected for outbound mail items to other countries.)➠➠ (Click here to view the form )

(The above plantation is located on the Osumi Peninsula of Kagoshima Prefecture.)

This week we visited a few of our contract tea farms around Kagoshima.

The tea leaves are all looking very healthy and beautiful. We really enjoyed to staying in the tea farms, because the peaceful landscape just made us feeling relax and appealing our hearts.

Although the business in the whole world was influenced by COVID-19, but the virus will not influence the mind that we want to try the new tea. Just can’t hardly wait to try  them now!!

Last month November 25th Fresh Cup Magazine published the article “Surprising Changes in Japanese Tea Culture & Business” which features one of our employees! In the article you can read about our current plans and our thoughts on future domestic and international tea business, and many of the new trends and changes to the Japanese domestic tea market in general.

Please feel free to give it a read at the link above or below! We would really appreciate it.

https://www.freshcup.com/surprising-changes-in-japanese-tea-culture-business/

It has been a busy autumn for us in Japan and abroad. We want to thank everyone who visited us during the LA tea festival,

Northwest tea festival and San Francisco tea festival. We are happy to have shared both smiles and our SMILE TEA with you all.

Above is a greeting from our resident volcano here in Kagoshima, Mt.Sakurajima.

This year we are attending tea festivals on the west coast of the United States!

• LA Tea Festival – Los Angeles, August 11 – 12 (Big thanks to everyone who attended and stopped by our booth for some delicious organic tea!)
• Northwest Tea Festival – Seattle, September 28-29
• SF International Tea Festival – San Francisco, October 19-20

For more info, pictures from the events we attend, matcha recipes and more.

• Follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/birouenteahouse/

A big thanks to everyone who visited our booth at the World Tea Expo in Las Vegas last month.

Here are our SMILE TEA organic Japanese green teas. Going from left to right is Organic Matcha, Hojicha, Sencha teabags and Sencha loose leaf.

After the event we had the pleasure of visiting Reno, Nevada and we got to see the beautiful Lake Tahoe.

This week we visited our organic contract farms together with a client.
First image is from a secluded plantation among the many hidden valleys of the Kirishima highlands.

The second image is of an infant-plantation. The trees here were planted two years ago and still has two more years to grow before the farmer starts harvesting their leaves.

Yesterday April 5th marked the 2019 start of business at the Kagoshima Prefectural Tea Action House. Growers, brokers & packers from all over Kagoshima was present along with board members of the Kagoshima Farming cooperative. All the local television channels were providing coverage as tea holds a big share in the net product of Kagoshima.

Seen in the middle-left of the image below is a Shinto Priest performing a ritual prayer for good business in the coming season.

From this week forward daily auctions will be held until the end of august.

This weekend we visited a few select farms to check on the growth of the 2019 spring harvest. The plants are fairing well with most farms predicting the harvest to start three to five days earlier than average. Early cultivars from 7th of April, with later cultivars towards the end of April.

The above plantations are located on the Osumi Peninsula of Kagoshima Prefecture.