About the brand
Our company, Horacin, has a long history of pioneering tea plantations in the highlands of Shirakawa during the Taisho era, and has continued to carefully make tea by hand-picking tea leaves grown in the mountains and storing flavor by hand rubbing.
This Shirakawa tea, which grows in highlands with temperature differences, is a high-quality and valuable tea leaf with a small amount of tea leaves on the market. Since pioneering tea plantations in the highlands of Shirakawa during the Taisho era, we have continued to make tea carefully.
A long-established store that has been in business for 102 years
Read More
Learn more about this brand
Why are we doing?
What are we doing?
Commitment to the product
Who are supporting us?
More about Dongxin Garden
The tea plantation of Mino Shirakawa tea is located in the southern part of Gifu Prefecture, and in addition to Shirakawa tea, Tono cypress is a specialty of the town. Most of the town is occupied by mountain forests, and it is called "tea plantation on the mountain" because it is a tea plantation with a difference in altitude. The fantastic scenery of morning mist rising from the river is unique to the Mino Shirakawa River. Everywhere you can see sparkling green streaks of tea. Shirakawa is one of Japan's leading tea producing areas, and has been producing very valuable tea leaves since ancient times. Unlike other tea producing areas, this Shirakawa tea, which grows in highlands with a temperature difference of morning fog, is said to be a high-quality and valuable tea leaf that cannot be found anywhere else because the amount of tea leaves on the market is small because it only picks up to the second tea. Our company, Horacin, has a long history of pioneering tea plantations in the highlands of Shirakawa during the Taisho era, and has continued to carefully make tea by hand-picking tea leaves grown in the mountains and storing flavor by hand rubbing. We have introduced mechanization since that time, such as steamers, coarse kneading machines, and wood-fired tea machines, and we are delivering tea plantations to everyone while gradually enlarging them.
Manufacture and sale of green tea
Commitment to the product
While preserving the tea plantations that have been passed down from generation to generation, we are particular about the old-fashioned manufacturing method centered on compost.
It is favored by restaurants and the elderly.