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Iruma City Hosts Hachijūhasshiya New Tea Festival at Municipal Hall Teafield
Iruma City's tea industry association will hold its annual Hachijūhasshiya New Tea Festival on May 2, 2026, at city hall, featuring tea-picking experiences and hand-rolling demonstrations by the Iruma Hand-Rolled Sayama Tea Preservation Society—a group that has won Japan's national hand-rolled tea competition for 20 consecutive years. A preliminary bus tour on April 25 will allow early hand-picking at a forcing house, followed by distribution of 1,500 single-serve new-tea pac…
【埼玉県入間市】”市役所の茶畑”で新茶を五感で体感する「八十八夜 新茶まつり」開催 - CLASSY.[クラッシィ]
Key points
- Iruma City hosts Hachijūhasshiya festival May 2, 2026, with public tea-picking and hand-rolling displays at municipal ha…
- Iruma Hand-Rolled Sayama Tea Preservation Society achieves 20 consecutive national competition wins—historic first achie…
- Pre-festival bus tour April 25 offers early hand-picking at forcing house; 1,500 tea packs and 150 seedlings distributed…
- Sayama tea is Japan's second-largest named tea and represents one of the northernmost commercial tea-growing regions in…
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The numbers
new-tea single-serve packs to distribute: 1,500袋
tea seedlings to distribute: 150本
consecutive national hand-rolled tea competition wins: 20年
Sayama tea history in Iruma: 約400年
What they said
“The society has achieved an unprecedented feat: 20 consecutive wins and 25 total victories at the national hand-rolled tea competition—a historic first.”
全国手もみ茶品評会では史上初となる「20年連続・25回目の日本一」という前人未到の偉業を達成しました
“Iruma's teafields represent the northernmost major commercial tea-growing region in Japan.”
大規模な茶園としては国内最北限にあたる美しい茶畑の原風景が広がっています
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