d:matcha Kyoto — Restaurant in Wazuka

Amazing experience! Just stayed on their B&B, so had the chance to experience most of what they offer. Note it is not a B&B, it is a super fancy experience on a recently refurbished large private traditional Japanese home (all for you). It includes 7 course lunch, dinner with home grown local produce along with custom tailored experiences (tea tour, ancient pottery town tour, baking classes, hikes, etc.). I'm on the end of a 1 month trip of my life in japan, and it was the highlight stay of the trip! The tea tour is awesome too, you can feel how they love and live for tea. I'm more experienced with Chinese teas, but from the senchas and matchas I have tried, 3 of the top 5 japanese teas I've tried were from dmatcha. Their production of various cultivars exemplifies their impact beautifully, some pairings with the local wazuka terroir are awesome. Note: they also, along with producing tea, do experimental food and drink based on tea. Some in my opinion being very successful experiments like matcha pancakes and tencha (matcha before it is ground) added as a spice. Be prepared to high doses of caffeine as you cant stop eating and drinking tea. Given the highly experimental nature, it may be that a café customer gets a single thing that they don't like, for me it was beer and tea mixed (not my cup of tea), but im sure someone likes it! That is the only explanation the ratings are not higher, on the 4.8-5 ballpark. The farm, shop, accomodation is super well run, staff is super nice, owner couple is awesome and very present in the business and the service is better than most 5 star hotels I've had the opportunity to experience.

Ps: My mom, which does not like tea at all loved the experience, and discovered she loved their hojicha, the best I've tried too. For adding another tea drinker in the house I'm...

One of the highlights of my trip. I love green tea and the green tea field and factory tour (which also included a delicious lunch - dessert sold separately but it is a must :D).

Daiki runs the tour from his cafe shop in Wazuka which is also where he resides. He was nice enough to pick us up from the JR Kamo station and was able to accommodate our huge luggage - we were in lieu of changing hotel accommodations.

He gave us so much information on his background and how he started up. One of the ladies in our tour group asked quite a few questions that opened up my perspective on Daikis dedication to his craft and how not so simple green tea planting and harvesting is.

We drove from his cafe to one of his fields and got the explanation of the varieties of green tea and how they generally care for their product; we even got to pick our own tea leaves which were then made in to green leaf tempura!

Throughout the tour we tried different varieties of green tea sencha and matcha, including cold sencha tea and matcha tea varieties which we whisked together as a group.

The factory tour was really eye opening and shows how, even with modern machinery, limited in production high quality green tea and matcha is.

Yes, we bought a lot of tea to take home but it will be consumed in no time.

Thanks Daiki for the good times! Good luck to your growing company and...

My love for Matcha brings me here to Wazuka and found d:matcha. I’d like to learn about where the tea came from and I’m happy to join the tea tours. We started with a welcome drink of houjicha and then they take us to see the farm. It was a rather rainy day and chilly but Daiki still take us and explain about them all round the plantation and take us to the factory where they process after harvesting. Back to the cafe, we did the tea tasting with 3 different kind of matcha and sencha and ended with delicious interesting matcha lunch meal. So far I’m happy with the whole experience however The downside about this tour is how far the location is . There was no public bus to take you there so you have to take taxi car at some point. From my perspective, it’d be a plus point if they can provide a shuttle to pick the guests since this is not a cheap tour. It is quite expensive. I get lucky that my japanese friend drives me here. Second of all, I feel like I have so many questions but there is no session for FAQ. I’d appreciate if there is a clear say like “hey if you guys have any question, here it is. Cause I didn’t want to feel like interrupting . I did ask something about the ceremonial grading in tea however I did not get any clear answer. Overall, Daiki explaination is profound and I still gain knowledge out of it. It be a good experience once...