visitors

Our customer from Onomichi, who has been trusting us with his business for over 10 years. We don't get to meet with him often, but feel honored to have customers from so far away that enjoy our tea.

These guests from England visited despite the oppressive mid-summer heat . We gave them an off season tour of the tea plantation and factory.

Local Ureshino customers who have been coming to Tokunaga for 10 years now. More beautiful than the rhododendron blooms...

This is a married couple from Sri Lanka doing work on their doctorate at Saga University. They had considerable experience with black teas, but had come to ask questions regarding green tea, as they were working on developing a device to measure and analyze the flavors of green tea.

Having finished their doctoral dissertations, they are currently residing in Australia.

They were kind enough to send us a copy of their dissertation, but it was in very technical english... (????)

This work of calligraphy hanging to the left of our store entrance was done by a Chinese calligraphy artist who visited Ureshino in 1999.

These are the work of one of our Ureshino customers, Mr. Hyakuya. The tiny cranes are made from 1cm squares of paper, and are displayed throughout our store. Actually, the number of customers who see them and realize that they are cranes is very small. Just our small prayer for peace and happiness...