Located in Kakegawa City and the adjacent Oigawa River basin—one of the premier tea-producing regions in Shizuoka Prefecture, a renowned tea-growing area—we offer farm stays where you can enjoy the vast tea plantations alongside the local farmers.
You can enjoy tea picking from late April, the start of the new tea season, through October, when the year's final harvest takes place. Additionally, even during the winter months starting in November, unique farming activities take place here; you can observe these processes and, if you wish, even help out.
This tea cultivation method—which involves cutting grasses such as pampas grass and bamboo around the tea fields and spreading the dried grass between the rows—has been passed down for nearly 200 years to produce high-quality tea. As a result, the area maintains a habitat for some 300 species of rare plants and animals. Recognized in 2013 as "Shizuoka's Tea-Grass Field Farming Method," a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS).