The History of Tea in Japan

In the town of uji, where the best tea is grown, all the vineyards and fields are covered over with wooden s bearing mats made of corn stalks or rice straw. By the late 15 hundreds, tea cultivation had spread pretty much everywhere in japan that was already geographically suited for the plant. But there were still large swaths of the country, most notably northern hornshoe and parts beyond, where tea could not be cultivated thanks to the harsh weather. As the economy commercialized during the age of the tok gow apiece, the people of northern Japan developed a taste for tea as a southern drink.