Genuine Uji Tea

Today Uji tea is well known as a luxury brand from famous tea- producing area. That is believed to date from over all those years ago.

In 1911, the Sung dynasties, Eisai who was a master of Zen brought back tea seeds to Japanese from China and taught Japanese people about matcha tea ceremony technique. In1207, saint Myoue in Madarao kozanji temple, Kyoto sowed the seeds inherited from Eisai in the field of Uji, which was that the origin of Uji tea. In Muromachi period, the Ashikaga shogunate encouraged the people to grow Uji tea, which spread the brand name and how wonderful Uji tea is.

Uji tea is the Japanese traditional tea that produced in the south of Kyoto. And also Uji tea is defined as that 100 percent of tea leaves are produced in Kyoto. Additionally, the following tea also can be called Uji tea. It is that over 50 percent of the tea leaves is produced in Kyoto and blended with the tea leaves produced in Shiga, Nara, and Mie of Kansai region.

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Gundam Stands in Odaiba

“Mobile Suits Gundam” is the most famous giant robot featured animation in Japan. For about 30 years, this animation is respected from fans. I also like Gundam too, and I heard from my friend that 1:1 scale Gundam RX-78 now stands in Odaiba, Tokyo. Woo! I must go and see it!

Mobile Suits Gundam RX-78

Look at this realistic and detailed form! It was so cool. I wanna request building Char’s Zaku standing right next to this Gundam.

Dear all Gundam fans, this is worth seeing. Ahead to Odaiba now!

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Green Tea Coke

There are a lot of flavors in the world of Coke. In Japan, new flavor Coke is available in the market. Believe it or not, its green tea flavor!

Green Tea Coke

It does not really taste like green tea, but you can slightly feel the aroma of green tea. Not really good for me. I like cherry Coke better

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This is My Name

This t-shirt has a kanji on it. This kanji symbol is “Susumu”. Yes,it is my name.

Front of Kanji T shirt

Back of Kanji T shirt

Pictures on it were drawn carefully by hand ! This clothing was made by the craftsman in Kyoto. Um… cool!
What is the reason why this t-shirt is pretty cool? I think that the reasons are because the craftsman’s technique is amazing and because my name kanji symbol is cool both.

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Digital Camera for Public and Private

You know,yesterday Akiba Mart opened !  And….  I bought my first digital camera!   I didn’t have a digital camera until yesterday. I had used a cell phone camera.

 After today, I will take pictures of Akiba mart contents and our lifestyles by using my new camera.

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Akiba Mart Is Open Today!

Akiba Mart project started at the end of February, and for approximately 3 month since then, Akiba Mart had started its service!

To deliver cool and fancy products from Japan to our customers, we had worked very hard. We were not a specialist for online stores and online marketing, however our passion made things going forward. We know that there are a lot of things to learn from our customers, we are always welcome for your comments and requests.

Our main products now are tasty Japanese tea and beautiful shadow boxes, but we are planning to expand it more. What product? No, no that’s secret for now

I would like to thank my friend Susumu for running this project with me, Kazuki for nice and cute illustrations in How To Prepare Sencha and How To Prepare Matcha pages. Also many thanks to everybody who gave us advice. We could not realize Akiba Mart without all of you. Thanks again!

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Japanese Tea Helps Your Diet

The effect paid attention most might be the reducing of body fat though there are a lot of effects of preventing adult diseases like cancer, arterial sclerosis, and elevated blood pressure in Japanese green tea.

The secret of reducing the body fat is in the catechin of the astringency element included in Japanese green tea.

It has three effects of reducing the body fat though the catechin is a kind of the polyphenol.

1. Effect of burning fat by catechin

Fat burns by the working of “the enzyme of burning fat” in the liver, and is changed into energy. Catechin has an effect of making working of the enzyme of burning fat in the liver active and burning fat efficiently.

2. Effect of burning more calories by catechin

The catechin has antioxidant properties, normalizes the condition of lipid in the blood, and promotes the circulation of blood.It burns more calories in the body as a whole, reduces body fat, and change into lean habit of body by promoting the circulation of blood.

3. Interfering with fat absorption by catechin

The fat taken by meal is absorbed into the body by working of bile acid in intestine. The catechin has the effect of interfering the absorption of fat by this bile acid. Therefore, it becomes difficult by drinking tea during and after a meal to enhance the quantities of cholesterol in the blood and the body fat.

It is necessary to take about 500mg of the catechin to decrease the body fat simply by drinking tea when guessing from research results by various research laboratories every day. It is necessary to drink seven cups of tea or more to take about 500mg of the catechin though it depends on how to brew tea.
Dieting with only tea is quite difficult, but it is safe to say that drinking Japanese tea become of considerable help for dieting by your appropriate exercise and proper nutrition.

Why don’t you incorporate Japanese tea into daily eating?

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Count Down for Akiba Mart Launch

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