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And no, that\u2019s not Kyoto<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n With green tea being the most culturally significant drink in Japan, and Kyoto being considered the heart of the country\u2019s traditional culture, it\u2019s easy to make the assumption that Kyoto must be where most of Japan\u2019s green tea is grown. However, while Kyoto Prefecture does produce Japan\u2019s most famous high-end matcha, the honor of Japan\u2019s number-one green tea grower, in terms of amount grown, actually goes to Shizuoka Prefecture<\/strong>.<\/p>\n So for its newest batch of special green tea snacks and sweets, 7-Eleven Japan<\/strong> is using Shizuoka-grown tea<\/strong>, called Shizuokacha<\/strong>. Specifically, the convenience store chain is using Shizuoka-grown ichibancha<\/strong>, the first picking of the harvest season, when the tea leaves are said to be their most robustly flavorful.<\/p>\n That ichibancha Shizuokacha will be going into such tempting treats as the Ocha Moko<\/strong>, a green tea cream puff with a very verdant filling of green tea cream and sauce, and the Kuzumochi Dorayaki<\/strong>, which sandwiches green tea mousse, an (sweet red beans), and starchy mochi between a pair of pancake-like cakes.<\/p>\n And since green tea can lend itself to Western-style sweets too, 7-Eleven\u2019s Shizuokacha Fair lineup includes a Shizuoka green tea cream-topped chocolate Danish<\/strong> and cake<\/strong> with so much Shizuokacha that 7-Eleven promises it won\u2019t only have the flavor of green tea, but also the aroma of it.<\/p>\n But maybe the most intriguing of all is 7-Eleven Japan\u2019s new green tea musubi (rice ball)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n This eye-catching musubi gets its color from mixing Shizuokacha tea leaves in with the rice<\/strong>. The additional ingredients of nori<\/strong> (dried seaweed) and katsuo<\/strong> (bonito) don\u2019t just add appealing complexity to the flavor profile, they\u2019re meant to give you the flavors of ochazuke<\/strong>, a traditional Japanese dish of rice with green tea poured over it, in a handy format that\u2019s easy to eat when you\u2019re on the go.<\/p>\n These items will be available for a limited time, so ordinarily this is where we\u2019d tell you to rush to the nearest 7-Eleven Japan branch. However, as part of an initiative to support smaller farms and promote consumption of locally grown produce, the Shizuokacha rice ball and above-mentioned Japanese sweets are only available at 7-Eleven branches in Shizuoka Prefecture<\/strong> (the Danish and cake can be found at branches in Shizuoka\u2019s neighbor, Yamanashi Prefecture<\/strong>, as well). So instead, we\u2019ll tell you to hurry to Shizuoka, which, if you\u2019re into green tea, definitely deserves a spot in your Japan travel plans<\/a>.<\/p>\n Source, images: PR Times<\/a><\/em> And no, that\u2019s not Kyoto. With green tea being the most culturally significant drink in Japan, and Kyoto being considered the heart of the country\u2019s traditional culture, it\u2019s easy to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/ss-2.jpg?w=640\")
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