Day 1

Shimada-Kanaya IC on the New Tomei Expressway

11:00 KADODE OOIGAWA

Green Tea Experience to find your favorite flavor

Located next to Monde Station on the Oigawa Railway, this is an Experience-type food park for green tea, agriculture, and tourism. In addition to a marché featuring fresh vegetables, fruits, green tea, and other agricultural products from the Oigawa River basin, there are also a variety of other Properties, including restaurants and a tourist information center. The "Green Tea Tours" is a popular attraction where visitors can learn about tea in a fun way. Visitors can transform themselves into "tea leaves" and experience the "steaming," "rubbing," and "heating" of the tea leaves, and at the end of the tour, they can compare four different kinds of green tea. Taste teas with different flavors and aromas to find your favorite tea.
On the premises, there is a Restaurant featuring local vegetables, burgers and ochazuke (rice with green tea), and a tea house, making it a convenient place for lunch or a break.

12:30 Ishimatsu Gyoza (Gyoza dumplings) Main Store

Visit a famous Hamamatsu gyoza restaurant for lunch on the first day of your trip

The restaurant was established in 1953 and is famous as the originator of Hamamatsu gyoza, a Hamamatsu specialty as well as eels. The main store is located along Route 152 and has been popular for its unchanged taste since its establishment.
Hamamatsu gyoza is made of cabbage and pork kneaded into the filling, and boiled bean sprouts are placed in the center of the round gyoza. At Ishimatsu Gyoza, cabbage, carefully selected according to season, is combined with domestic pork, and the secret to the flavor is the secret binder created by the first generation. The gyoza are thin-skinned and light, but the more you bite into one, the more flavorful it becomes. The slightly sweet soy sauce with vinegar and bean sprouts for chopstick rest enhance the taste of the gyoza even more.

14:00 Enshu Cotton Tsumugi Nukumori Workshop

Japanese textile goods that Hamamatsu is proud of as souvenirs

The Enshu area centering on Hamamatsu prospered as one of the three major cotton-producing regions along with Mikawa (Aichi Prefecture) and Senshu (Osaka Prefecture). At Nukumori Kobo in Hamakita Ward, you will find a variety of modern and original items, including Japanese goods and clothing made from Enshu cotton pongee, a traditional textile. The historic textiles are produced by craftsmen who carry on the tradition and traditional shuttle looms. A tool called a shuttle with a weft thread attached moves back and forth between the warp threads, weaving slowly and carefully to create a warm texture.
More than 150 patterns are available at any given time, including the standard Enshu stripes, and checks have also appeared in recent years. The high quality, machine-washable fabrics that become softer and more textured the more they are used are a unique gem.

15:00 Hoshino Resorts KAI Enshu

Hot spring ryokan with a spectacular view of Lake Hamana and sencha green tea to heal both body and soul

Located in Tatezanji hot spring on the shore of Lake Hamana, all rooms overlook Lake Hamana. The hotel offers a variety of hospitality that can only be found in Japan's number one tea-producing area, such as tea-related events and an outdoor hot spring with floating tea balls. Enshu cotton pongee, a traditional craft, adorns the interior of the hotel. The KAI Local Flavors menu, featuring seasonal delicacies such as eels, a specialty of Lake Hamana, is also well known.

Recommended Guest room: KAI Signature Rooms "Enshu Tsumugi Rooms

All rooms, including Japanese and Western-style rooms and Suite rooms, have a lake view. Shoji screens, lampshades, and other Enshu cotton pongee fabrics create a warm and inviting atmosphere. The "Tsumugi Tea Field" with tea trees and azaleas, and the view of Lake Hamana will allow you to forget your daily life and spend a luxurious time.

16:00 KAI Cultural Discovery

Rediscover the charm of tea with "Bicharaku no Omotenashi

At "Bicharaku no Omotenashi" (Bicharaku's Hospitality), named after Japan's number one tea-producing region, Staff/staff members who are well versed in tea will show you how to brew tea and what it tastes like. Shizuoka tea, carefully selected together with tea farmers in the prefecture, is rich in flavor and aroma. Visitors can learn about tea while having fun by tasting tea at different times of the year and comparing the different types of tea produced in different regions.

17:30 Dinner

Enjoy KAI Local Flavors of fugu and eel

Dinner is the "Fugu Una KAI Local Flavors," featuring torafugu, the king of fugu, and Hamanako's specialty, eel. The appetizer is " White Grilled Eel with Citrus Flower", which is a combination of the rich flavor of the eel and the refreshing sourness of the ume plum. The sumptuous local delicacies go well with Shizuoka's local sake.

19:30 Hot spring

Enjoy a relaxing time at Tateyamaji hot spring

Two types of hot springs are available to relieve travelers' fatigue. The "Koto no Yu," which has an outdoor hot spring and an indoor bath made of hinoki cypress, allows you to enjoy a pleasant bath with the breeze from the lake. The hot spring is a sodium-calcium chloride high-sodium salt hot spring with high heat-retaining effects.

21:00 Ochake (tea ceremony)

Enjoy "tea" and "sake

As is typical of a tea-themed inn, the evening entertainment includes "ochake," a combination of tea and sake. You can enjoy combinations that incorporate the seasons, such as fresh tea and gin, or matured tea and rice shochu in the fall. Enjoy a blissful time as you reflect on the first day of your trip.

*Services are subject to change depending on the season.

Day 2

08:00 Breakfast

Breakfast in a tea box" at a tea house

The second day begins with a "local breakfast" featuring local delicacies. The first thing that catches the eye is the wooden tea box used to store tea leaves. Inside the box, tea leaves are laid out, and you can enjoy the subtle aroma of the tea leaves as well as dishes rich in regional flavors.

12:00 Marutama Tea Making

Bring back safe and secure tea as a souvenir

Located along Hime Kaido (Prefectural Road 261), the motto of the tea store, which handles all aspects of tea cultivation, production, and sales, is "making tea we want our children to drink with confidence. They cultivate environmentally friendly tea using no herbicides and less pesticides and chemical fertilizers. The teas are mainly deep steamed green tea, but also hojicha, genmaicha, and Japanese black tea are available in leaf and tea bag form. The sophisticated packaging is also attractive and makes a great souvenir.

13:00 Ocha-no-Oto

Enjoy soba noodles at a café offering a variety of famous teas from all over Japan

Located in a quiet residential area, this wooden house with lush greenery is a cafe specializing in Japanese teas. The cafe offers about 30 varieties of tea selected from all over Japan, including black tea, fermented tea, and other teas from Shizuoka, such as "Tenryu Koshun" and "Morimachi no Ocha". Light meals and sweets using tea are also popular, and the "Nootono Chasoba" is highly recommended. The tea soba served with matcha green tea in the dipping sauce is deeply flavorful, and the aroma and taste of the tea spreads over the palate as it glides down the throat.
In addition to seasonal sweets and "Koicha no Kakeki" (thick tea cake), seasonal sweets such as shaved ice with matcha, hojicha, and black tea are also on the menu. All tea leaves served at the café are available for purchase, so you can enjoy fine teas even after you return from your trip.

Greenpia Makinohara

Experience picking tea in a vast tea plantation

The tea complex Property is located in "Makinohara Grand Tea Garden," known as one of the largest tea-producing areas in Shizuoka, the tea capital of Japan. The "Tea Picking Experience," held every year from late April to early October, is particularly popular among the various tea experiences offered. Just standing in the bright green tea fields is a refreshing experience. You can take home the tea leaves you picked with a recipe, so why not taste the fresh tea leaves in tempura and other dishes?
The factory, where visitors can freely observe the tea processing process, is also a must-see to learn more about tea. The "Ippinkan" store sells a wide selection of teas, including sencha (sencha green tea), black tea, health tea, and green tea sweets, all made at the tea factory.