Tea shops · Tokyo, Japan
Jugetsudo (寿月堂, Maruyama Nori)
The tea shop of Maruyama Nori, a Tsukiji nori house of 1854, with two Tokyo tea rooms, one of them above the Kabukiza theatre.
A nori merchant that took tea seriously enough to hire Kengo Kuma for two of its shops. The senchas are named Jugetsu and Hyakunen no Haru; the gyokuro and the matcha come from Uji.
Jugetsudo is the Japanese-tea brand of Maruyama Nori, a Tsukiji house founded in 1854 that still describes itself by that date. The tea shops came later: Paris in 2008, and Ginza in April 2013, on the fifth floor of Kabukiza Tower beside the theatre's rooftop garden. Both were designed by the architect Kengo Kuma. In 2017 the house also worked on a project for the Portland Japanese Garden. The Tsukiji main shop does not publish an opening year of its own.
The Tsukiji main shop is at 4-7-5 Tsukiji, on the ground floor of the Tsukiji Kyoeikai Building, in the same part of Tsukiji as the Uogashi Meicha main shop. The shop opens 9:30 to 17:30, or 10:00 to 16:00 on Sundays and holidays; its tea room runs 9:30 to 17:00 with last orders at 16:00 and rests on Sundays and holidays. The Ginza shop at 4-12-15 Ginza opens 10:30 to 17:30, until 18:00 on Saturdays, and its tea room keeps the same hours with last orders at 17:00.
The house senchas are Jugetsu, which carries the shop's name, and Hyakunen no Haru, both in 100 g bags. The Uji side of the shelf is where the house spends its ambition: a gyokuro Uji Hikari in 20 g and the gyokuro Enso in a 20 g tin. The matchas are Manzara in a 40 g tin and Hatsumukashi in 20 g, with a Cuvée series above them. A hojicha called Hoiroage is sold as fresh-roasted, and the house also makes matcha sweets. In Ginza, the tea room looks out over the rooftop garden.
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Where it is
Tsukiji main shop and tea room
Tsukiji Kyoeikai Bldg 1F, 4-7-5 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0045 (東京都中央区築地4丁目7番5号 築地共栄会ビル1F)
Hours: Shop 9:30–17:30 (Sundays and holidays 10:00–16:00) · tea room 9:30–17:00 (last order 16:00), closed Sundays and holidays
Ginza Kabukiza shop and tea room
Kabukiza Tower 5F, 4-12-15 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061 (東京都中央区銀座4-12-15 歌舞伎座タワー5階)
Hours: Shop 10:30–17:30 (Saturdays 10:30–18:00) · tea room 10:30–17:30 (last order 17:00)
What to buy here
Sencha
Hyakunen no Haru sencha (百年の春) 100g
from ¥ 1,780 · 100 g
Hyakunen no Haru, 'a hundred years of spring', the house's upper sencha in a 100 g bag that lasts a season.
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Hoiroage hojicha, fresh-roasted (ほい炉あげ ほうじ茶) 100g
from ¥ 1,030 · 100 g
A hojicha the house sells as fresh-roasted, in a 100 g bag for the evening pot.
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Matcha Manzara (抹茶 まんざら) 40g tin
¥ 1,060 · 40 g
Manzara is the matcha to start with: forty grams in a tin, more than any other matcha on this page puts in a first container.
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The one worth the trip
Gyokuro Enso, Uji (玉露 円相) 20g tin
¥ 4,680 · 20 g
Gyokuro Enso from Uji, twenty grams in a tin, the top gyokuro on this page's shelf at a shop whose other half sells seaweed. Buy it at the Kabukiza shop and sit in the tea room next door with the rooftop garden outside.
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| Tea | Type | Price | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hoiroage hojicha, fresh-roasted (ほい炉あげ ほうじ茶) 100g | Green tea | from ¥ 1,030 | 100 g |
| Matcha Manzara (抹茶 まんざら) 40g tin | Matcha | ¥ 1,060 | 40 g |
| Tokusen Jugetsu sencha (特撰 寿月) 100g | Green tea | from ¥ 1,280 | 100 g |
| Gyokuro Uji Hikari (玉露 宇治ひかり) 20g | Green tea | ¥ 1,450 | 20 g |
| Hyakunen no Haru sencha (百年の春) 100g | Green tea | from ¥ 1,780 | 100 g |
| Matcha Hatsumukashi (抹茶 初昔) 20g tin | Matcha | ¥ 2,550 | 20 g |
| Gyokuro Enso, Uji (玉露 円相) 20g tin | Green tea | ¥ 4,680 | 20 g |
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