What is Shincha(new tea)?
A new bud of the tea tree accumulates nutrition during the winter and sprouts in the spring. Shincha is made from the first buds picked that year. The tea leaves, which can only be harvested once a year at this time of year, swell and unravel in the teapot when hot water is poured over them. The yellowish-green tea is free of any unpleasant taste and has a fresh aroma and a rich flavor. It makes you feel the arrival of early summer in your mouth. The freshness of the new tea can be appreciated even more by eating the tea leaves that remain in the teapot. Like quickly boiled spinach or canola flower, you can enjoy its subtle flavor and soft texture.
Fukujuen’s new tea
Every year at this time, we look around tea production areas all over Japan (including the Ujicha production areas) to carefully select new teas for customers. Even in the same tea garden, new tea tastes slightly different depending on the climate and growing conditions during the year. The tea leaves have different characteristics, such as a good aroma and a strong rich flavor, our tea masters use a skilled blending technique called “Gogumi” to produce Fukujuen’s new tea.
Fukujuen’s new tea experience event
CHA tea picking experience
In order to provide with a casual experience of tea culture, we offer the opportunity to experience picking new tea leaves in CHA EXPERIENCE PARK, located near Kizu River in Kyoto. Surrounded by the rich nature with its vivid fresh green scenery, you can enjoy the fresh green aroma and softness of new tea buds only available during the new tea season.
Edible new tea
The tea leaves are chopped into very small pieces and are easy to eat, allowing you to consume the whole new tea without losing any of its nutrition and rich flavor. Sprinkled over ice cream, you can enjoy a new taste with the aroma of new tea that feels like summer. It is also recommended as a condiment for cooking.
Edible Green Tea
50g/bag
Uji Shincha Cold Brew Teabags
The Japanese tea plants accumulate nutrition between autumn and winter to prepare for burgeoning. When spring approaches, the warm sunshine calls for mebuki (the burgeoning of new tealeaves). “Uji Shincha Cold Brew Teabags” crafted in the birthplace of Japanese tea, are made using tea leaves refined specifically for cold brewing to bring out their fragrant aroma. Packaged in convenient teabags, they allow you to enjoy Uji Shincha with ease. Please enjoy the rich flavor of this seasonal tea.
Cold Brew Teabags
4g×8bags
Sencha Hachi-ju-Hachi Gold
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| Sencha Hachi-ju-Hachi Gold Assortment 85g/can×２ |
Sencha Hachi-ju-Hachi Gold 85g/can |
Sencha Hachi-ju-Hachi Gold 50g/bag |
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| Sencha Hachi-ju-Hachi Gold 40g/can |
Sencha Hachi-ju-Hachi Gold Teabags 2g×5bags/box |
Shincha from various tea gardens
・Kagoshima Shincha Mebuki 50g/bag
・Kagoshima Shincha Honoka 50g/bag
・Kagoshima Shincha Wakaba no Kaze 50g/bag
・Kagoshima Shincha Tsuyobi-Shitate 50g/bag
・Kagoshima Shincha Tsuyobi-Shitate Teabags 3g×16bags/bag
・Yame Shincha 50g/bag
・The contents are subject to change.
・Some shops may not carry these products.
・The photo is for illustrative purposes only.