Café run by a long-established tea shop, serving seasonal food
Tea production in the Takema area started around 1634, in the early Edo period. Takema Tea was offered as a gift to successive generations of the Hosokawas, the Lord of Higo. The Takema Seicha company opened a tea garden in 1923, when the production of Takema tea was most prosperous. Since then the company has been engaged in the whole process of tea making from growing tea trees to selling tea at its shop. The company's motto is "to contribute to the society through tea business" and they produce, wholesale, and retail tea, develop tea with health benefits, and run a café Yama ni Omakase ("Leave it to the Mountain"), attached to its retail shop. The café serves lunch of seasonal dishes: bamboo shoot lunch in spring, tea noodle from mid-June, chestnut dumpling soup from September, handmade soba noodle from December. A dessert with Takema tea is also on offer. Reservation recommended.
- Address
- 〒861-0605
1377-3 Kahokumachi-Taku, Yamaga City
- Telephone
- 0968-32-2526
- Access
- Business hours
- 8:00～17:00、Restaurant "Yama Omakase" is 11: 00-15: 00
- Regular holiday
- August 15 and 16, December 31 to January 5
(Restaurant ""Yama Omakase"" is closed on Wednesday)
- how to pick up & where to meet the quests
- 5050 minutes by bus from Kyushu Shinkansen / Shintamana Station (bus stop "Shintamana Station" → get off at "Yamayo Onsen (Yachiyoza Entrance)")
