Japanese tea

Background This is a project to renovate part of the building of Maruyasu Chagyo, a tea wholesaler for more than 150 years in Tsuchiyama, which prospered as a post town on the Tokaido Highway, facing the Suzuka Pass, as a tea dormitory and a roasting house. The project started with the aim of creating a “place” where people can casually enjoy tea and communicate the appeal of Japanese tea for the sustainable development of tea culture and the local tea industry in the midst of declining household consumption of Japanese tea. Kazuoki Yasugi Kazuoki Yasugi Themes We aimed to create a state of harmony between the time-honored and the new, a state of nostalgia with a sense of novelty, so that local residents who used t... More