Nishide Tea Garden

Nishide Tea Garden operates in Shizuoka's premium Honyama sub-district, producing deep-steamed (fukamushi) sencha — a Shizuoka specialty where the leaves are steamed 2-3x longer than standard sencha, producing a distinctive jade-green liquor of body and intensity. The Honyama microclimate, in a narrow valley with morning mist from the Abe River, creates ideal conditions for this intensive style.

Nishide's fukamushi sencha demonstrates that Shizuoka's volume reputation conceals pockets of extraordinary quality. The deep-steam technique produces a jade-green, body-rich tea that pairs perfectly with Japanese cuisine and shows well as a restaurant house tea for guests who find standard sencha too light.