Kyoto Festival: Tea Festival in Wazuka, Kyoto (Chagenkyo Matsuri)

Located southeast of Kyoto, the town of Wazuka isn’t a place most tourists make it out to, despite how charming the rural community can be. But this weekend (November 7th - 8th, 2015) you may want to reconsider, seeing as the annual Chagenkyo Matsuri, also known as the Teatopia Festival, is being held at the Wazuka Sports Park! At the Chagenkyo Matsuri you can explore the world of green tea in Wazuka, one of the first places chosen to grow tea when it was imported from China over 800 years ago. Take a t