Wazuka is a town located in Soraku District, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. Surrounded by mountains and crossed by a river, it is not only a place of picturesque scenery but is also renowned as a premium region for producing Japanese green tea. Wazuka is home to roughly 300 tea-growing families.
The area was selected for tea production during the Kamakura period (1192 – 1333) and has enjoyed an 800-year history as one of the main production areas of Ujicha. Today, while Ujicha comprises only 3% of the tea produced in Japan, it enjoys royal status as one of the most highly prized and respected teas in the country. Furthermore, farmers produce a considerable crop of rice, along with other agricultural products.
Wazuka's band of top tea farmers, known as the Yukichaken, and the local community cooperate with NICE, one of the major volunteer programme companies, to hold the biggest annual work camp at the end of August, lasting 2 weeks. The programme is open to about 12 foreigners and an equal number of Japanese work campers each year.
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