Varieties of Green tea

Here is the list of the varieties of green tea, and the followings are detailed information of each type of green tea. 1. Sencha (regular steamed) 2. Sencha (deep steamed) 3. Hojicha 4. Kamairicha 5. Guricha 6. Genmaicha 7. Bancha 1. Sencha is well known for the everyday tea in Japan. The price ranges from \200 to \10,000 per 100g. If you spend \1,000 to buy 100g sencha, the taste should be relatively good, and you can enjoy the average taste of sencha. However, for the after meal tea, reasonable price sencha will do just fine. You can purchase \200 to \500 per 100g sencha at any grocery store. For the guests, you can serve \1000 class sencha. Serve sencha with Japanese sweet cake and enjoy the bitterness and the taste of tea. In Shizuoka there are many shops specializing of selling green tea. Try to visit different shops and sample different kind of tea. You can probably find one you like. 2. Deep steamed sencha is made with longer steamed process. The color is lighter and they are easily released in the water. Even with the water from urban area or extremely high temperature water, the taste can be pretty stable. The price ranges are similar to sencha. 3. Hojicha is a roasted tea. To make hojicha, usually low quality of sencha or bancha are used. Hojicha is a aromatic tea, and the taste is totally different from sencha. Price of hojicha is fairly reasonable. The price starts from \10 per gram, but average is about \100 per gram. It is a suitable tea accompanying to the rice cracker. People in Tokyo prefer to drink hojicha due to their water quality. 4. Ureshinocha from Shiga prefecture or Seiryucha from Nagasaki prefecture are the two kinds of kamairicha made in Japan. They are called as kamairicha because they are baked on the pan during the process. The price ranges are similar to sencha. 5. Guricha is a round shaped green tea. The taste is very similar to sencha and price is also about the same as sencha. 6. Genmaicha is a mixture of low quality bancha / sencha and roasted rice. This tea is suitable for after meal or with snack. 7. There are two different types of bancha. One is inexpensive bancha, and another one is bancha made with traditional method such as Kyo bancha or Bisaku bancha. Inexpensive bancha use low quality tea leaves. The price starts from \100 per 100 gram. They are much bitter than sencha, but has a refreshing aftertaste. You can make iced green tea with bancha for the summer time. Purchasing above listed tea is relatively easy. Most of the tea can be purchased at the local tea shops. Although you might find some difficulties finding kamairicha, guricha and the special kind of bancha. To buy sencha, you should put in your mind that deep steamed sencha is famous in Western part of Shizuoka, and regular sencha is famous in mountain area of Shizuoka. It is also a good idea to go different tea shops and get some advice from the retailers. Also, knowing the tea breeds help finding a tea you like. You should be able to get some detailed information for that though the Internet. In Shizuoka prefecture, there are more than 500 shops specializing for selling green tea. Sometimes, you can even buy directly from the farms. I assume, there are more than 1000 places you can purchase green tea in Shizuoka prefecture. If you a green tea drinker, you should definitely visit Shizuoka prefecture when you have chance to come to Japan.