Yugen Tea.

Yugen Tea is a tea bar-studio at Užupio g. 24, in the Užupis district of Vilnius, open Tuesday to Saturday from 12:00 to 20:00 and on Sundays from 12:00 to 19:00. It was founded by Giedrė Prievelytė, who studied East Asian cultures and languages, spent a year in Japan learning about the tea ceremony and ceramics, took tea master and tea blending courses in Australia, and later worked three spring months on a tea farm in the Uji region. The name comes from yūgen, the Japanese aesthetic idea of the quiet beauty found in small everyday details.

The online shop was built as a bridge to small Japanese farms, and the teas are sold under their makers' names. Osada-san's family farm in Shizuoka supplies a floral Koshun sencha from the spring 2026 harvest and a genmaicha with roasted mochi rice; Uejima-san, a fifth-generation master in Wazuka, near Uji, sends a kabuse sencha shaded for several weeks before picking, a gyokuro kukicha and two matchas; Taka-san roasts hojicha in Asamiya; Matsumoto-san makes a Japanese black tea, wakoucha, and a black tea smoked over sakura wood.

The bar is also a classroom. The studio runs group tastings, private tastings and sessions for companies, a matcha and tea latte tasting, and a tea and dessert tasting menu sold as a gift voucher, and the room can be rented. On the shelves next to the tea sits Japanese teaware, from shiboridashi, kyusu and an Arita teapot to Hagi cups, matcha bowls and chashaku scoops. Beyond Japan, the list keeps three teas from Master Cho, among them a wild Dong Ding oolong from Taiwan, rolled in the traditional way and slowly roasted over charcoal.