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Ryo Miyazaki, or ‘Cultivar King’, as he is known due to the more than 20 cultivars at Miyazaki Sabou Tea Garden, is a passionate tea farmer focusing on organically farmed kamairicha, wakocha and oolong. Miyazaki Sabou is 600m above sea level and home to some of the best award winning tea in Japan.

The prefecture enjoys a warm climate and has the largest number of sunny days in Japan! The old name of Miyazaki - Himuka, even means the ‘place, where the sun goes’. It is home to the alluring Takachiho river valley, dotted with a number of waterfalls; yellow sandy Nichinan beach; and a range of mountains, highest of which are over 1700m. The mountainous areas result in a lot of highlands, great for producing tea.
The main tea made here is sencha, but Miyazaki is also the largest producer of kamairicha - pan-fired tea. Tea is made widely across the prefecture, with some areas by the sea and some high in the mountains reaching an elevation of up 700m.
Now ranking 4th in tea production in Japan, Miyazaki is an up and coming region with plenty of rare styles, like the aforementioned kamairicha, oolong and sannen bancha (aged bancha).