Everything You Need to Know About Different Types of Japanese tea

The world of Japanese Green Tea is wide and wonderful, but it is sometimes confusing with all the terms used.

There are more than 100 total types of Japanese green tea names being used today. Names can refer to not the only type of tea, but they can also indicate which part of the tea plant is used, what kind of processing method was used, the name of the location where tea is farmed, etc. 

For instance, the sencha you are drinking may be of type Yabukita cultivar, deeply steamed (fukamushi-ch...