Learn the Etiquette of Japanese Tea Ceremonies (at Taiho-an)

At Uji City Municipal Tea Ceremony House, Taiho-an, you can experience authentic Uji tea accompanied by a seasonal Japanese sweet. If you don’t know anything about Japanese tea ceremonies, there’s no problem. In the Making Tea Experience (Otemae Taiken), you can first watch a tea master, who is from Uji City Tea Ceremony Association, prepare matcha green tea in the traditional way. After savoring the sweet and matcha, try whisking your own bowl of matcha with a chasen (a tea whisk).
Please note that the matcha experiences are not available on certain days when they feature sencha (one of the most common Japanese teas, which you brew, not whisk to prepare). The sencha tea ceremony has a different appeal than matcha, and it is also interesting. The sencha days are held several times a month.