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🍵 #0079.F2 Kurihara Tea #17: 2026 Okuhikari Cultivar Yame Sencha おくひかり

A single cultivar sencha from the Kurihara brothers, this Okuhikari is known for its vibrant green color.

Okuhikari is a cross between the Yabukita cultivar that makes up 75% of the tea grown in Japan, and a Chinese cultivar, Shizu Cy225, and officially registered in 1987. The plant grows slower than Yabukita requiring more care to avoid damage from weather and insects, but produces a better crop yield.


Product Info

  • Ingredients: Green tea
  • Cultivar: Okuhikari
  • Harvest: Spring
  • Region: Yabemura Village, Yame City, Fukuoka
  • Notes: Machine harvested from a tea field at altitude of about 600 meters (1968 feet). Regular steaming, but on the long side, so close to a fukamushi (deep steamed tea) but not quite. 

Vendor Info

  • Name: Kurihara Tea Farm
  • Type: Family-owned business, tea farm, tea factory
  • Members: Kippei, Yuji, and Akio Kurihara (Father and sons)
  • Location: 4236 Kita Yabe, Yabe-mura, Yame-shi, Fukuoka Prefecture 834-1401, JAPAN
  • Size: About 3 hectares total across several fields
  • Altitude of tea fields: 300 - 700 meters

 

A single cultivar sencha from the Kurihara brothers, this Okuhikari is known for its vibrant green color.

Okuhikari is a cross between the Yabukita cultivar that makes up 75% of the tea grown in Japan, and a Chinese cultivar, Shizu Cy225, and officially registered in 1987. The plant grows slower than Yabukita requiring more care to avoid damage from weather and insects, but produces a better crop yield.


Product Info

  • Ingredients: Green tea
  • Cultivar: Okuhikari
  • Harvest: Spring
  • Region: Yabemura Village, Yame City, Fukuoka
  • Notes: Machine harvested from a tea field at altitude of about 600 meters (1968 feet). Regular steaming, but on the long side, so close to a fukamushi (deep steamed tea) but not quite. 

Vendor Info

  • Name: Kurihara Tea Farm
  • Type: Family-owned business, tea farm, tea factory
  • Members: Kippei, Yuji, and Akio Kurihara (Father and sons)
  • Location: 4236 Kita Yabe, Yabe-mura, Yame-shi, Fukuoka Prefecture 834-1401, JAPAN
  • Size: About 3 hectares total across several fields
  • Altitude of tea fields: 300 - 700 meters

 

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Description

A single cultivar sencha from the Kurihara brothers, this Okuhikari is known for its vibrant green color.

Okuhikari is a cross between the Yabukita cultivar that makes up 75% of the tea grown in Japan, and a Chinese cultivar, Shizu Cy225, and officially registered in 1987. The plant grows slower than Yabukita requiring more care to avoid damage from weather and insects, but produces a better crop yield.


Product Info

  • Ingredients: Green tea
  • Cultivar: Okuhikari
  • Harvest: Spring
  • Region: Yabemura Village, Yame City, Fukuoka
  • Notes: Machine harvested from a tea field at altitude of about 600 meters (1968 feet). Regular steaming, but on the long side, so close to a fukamushi (deep steamed tea) but not quite. 

Vendor Info

  • Name: Kurihara Tea Farm
  • Type: Family-owned business, tea farm, tea factory
  • Members: Kippei, Yuji, and Akio Kurihara (Father and sons)
  • Location: 4236 Kita Yabe, Yabe-mura, Yame-shi, Fukuoka Prefecture 834-1401, JAPAN
  • Size: About 3 hectares total across several fields
  • Altitude of tea fields: 300 - 700 meters