Shizuoka Prefecture is famous for its tea.
Here are some stores where you can enjoy shaved ice and sweets made with plenty of delicious local tea.
Morimachi is a small town in western Shizuoka Prefecture.
Tea, corn, lettuce, persimmons, and other agricultural products flourish in this city, and the air and food are delicious.
Ishida Chaya Morimachi Honten
(1525-1 Mori, Mori-machi, Shuchi-gun, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan Inquiries 0538-85-2446).
Ishida Chaya also has a second store in the Cain's Home Hamamatsu Miyakoda Techno Store in Shin-Miyakoda, Kita-ku, Hamamatsu City,
The Morimachi main store is the only place where shaved ice is available.
Access to Ishida Chaya Morimachi main store
Access to Ishida Chaya Morimachi Honten may be about 10 minutes from the Mori Kakegawa Interchange on the New Tomei Expressway.
It is even closer from the smart interchange at the Enshu Morimachi parking area.
Access by car is convenient, and of course the store has a parking lot.
It is also accessible by a retro local train ride.
It takes about 10 minutes on foot from Tenryu Hamanako Railway Morimachi Byoin-mae.
The Tenryu Hamanako Railway is a local railroad that runs leisurely through a nostalgic rural landscape of rice fields, tea plantations, and mandarin orange orchards, typical of Shizuoka.
The train is fun to ride, although you should check the timetable because of the wide intervals between runs.
Shaved ice menu (Shaved ice menu)
The restaurant is open year-round, but shaved ice is on the shaved ice menu.
The shaved ice menu includes matcha (green tea) for 700 yen, hojicha (roasted green tea) for 700 yen, and strawberry for 500 yen.
The shaved ice is so high quality and luxurious that you may wonder if the price is right.
The amazing thing about Ishida Chaya's shaved ice is that the ice is made using a special method where tea leaves and strawberries are encased in ice and frozen.
The taste of shaved ice made with a special process
Matcha ice is a deep, deep green color.
The green color of the tea is a little impressive.
A mouthful of the tea spreads a rich tea aroma and melts in your mouth, flowing down your throat.
It is slightly bitter, but also has the sweetness of the tea itself.
Hojicha has a unique aroma unique to hojicha.
It is fragrant, yet refreshing, and you can take as much as you want in your mouth.
Tea is also used in soft serve ice cream
And lo and behold, zenzai and soft serve ice cream in the ice!
This soft serve ice cream is also tea.
Both matcha ice and hojicha ice are not tea flavored in any way...but tea itself! They are very luxurious shaved ice.
Syrup made with lots of real strawberries
Strawberry shaved ice is not just strawberry-scented red syrup.
Real strawberries are used in abundance, and both the aroma and taste are the strawberries themselves.
That's because the strawberries are trapped in ice and shaved.
Morimachi is also a strawberry-growing area. It is hard to find such delicious strawberry ice with the presence of real strawberries.
Anyway, all the ice is the best and all-out shaved ice.
The sweet menu is not limited to shaved ice.
Tea soft serve ice cream, zenzai, warabimochi, and rice cakes are also available.
This restaurant can be enjoyed even if you have a companion who does not like to eat a lot of cold food.
The menu also features reasonably priced soft-serve ice cream, starting at 100 yen for a mini-size, for everyone from small children to ladies who just want a quick bite,
We have a menu that will satisfy everyone.
They also offer tea to drink while waiting.
It is also brewed very well.
Ishida Chaya is a tea specialty store
Naturally, Ishida Chaya is a tea specialty store, so of course there are tea leaves and tea utensils.
There are a variety of teas to choose from, so you can shop according to your needs.
Local specialties are also available, so you can get a perfect souvenir of Shizuoka.
The staff is very knowledgeable about tea and will consult with you on how to make a delicious cup of tea or what kind of tea you would like to buy for errands or souvenirs, depending on your budget.
They let us taste the tea and teach us about the tea in detail so that we can taste it before we make our purchase.
How can sweets served with such confidence by such people not be delicious!
We visited as a family, including a little boy and his grandmother, and ordered one type of shaved ice each, and grandma ordered zenzai.
They traded shaved ice with each other and enjoyed all the flavors.
At first, the child was wary of just having strawberry tea, but after taking a sip, he realized that both green tea and brown tea were delicious! But after taking a sip, he was delighted to see that both the green tea and the brown tea were delicious! They were overjoyed.
Did my tongue turn green? and peeking into their mouths and sticking out their tongues, they enjoyed the meal.
Even the grandmother, who at first shied away from ice, saying it would cool her down, took another sip and then another...it really tastes like tea,
I never knew shaved ice could be so delicious until I was this age! I was so impressed.
Enshu Morimachi is a charming town called Enshu's little Kyoto.
There are many spots where you can feel the Japanese atmosphere, such as an old shrine called Oguni Shrine with its beautiful autumn leaves and cherry blossoms, and old temples.
It is also a place where agriculture is very active.
Many customers come from far away to buy corn and oysters.
There are also many specialty tea stores, many of which serve tea sweets and tea shaved ice.
You can enjoy different tea ice at each store.
Ishida Chaya's shaved ice is a must-try at least once in Morimachi.
It is a town full of delicious food, so please come and visit.
