A cafe run by Kitagawa Hanbei Shoten, a matcha wholesaler in Uji founded in 1861. A tea wholesaler who knows everything about tea proposes a pairing of Japanese tea and sweets. If you're looking for sweets that use matcha, it's better to avoid matcha in your drink and pair it with Japanese black tea or Japanese oolong tea. Enjoy the synergy of sweets and Japanese green tea.

Established in the Genroku era, Marukyu Koyamaen is a long-established Uji tea manufacturing company that handles many famous teas, including the favorites of the Sansenke family. At the teahouse facing the inner garden of a renovated Kyomachiya, you can enjoy a variety of teas such as light tea, strong tea, gyokuro and sencha, as well as tea sweets such as matcha roll cakes and ice cream.

Inside "Kyoto Nishijin Rooji" where rows of tenements make you feel like you've slipped back in time. The matcha produced in Wazuka, which is the largest producer of Uji tea, is supported by famous patissiers both in Japan and overseas. "White matcha ice cream" is made by pickling tea leaves, the raw material of matcha, in milk and extracting only the umami of the tea leaves.

The tea specialty store "Chasho Shimizu Ippo-en," which operates near Sanjusangendo, is well known for its elaborate tea sweets. The "Shimizu Parfait," which has been upgraded and revived for the first time in four years, is a rich sweet made with rare Uji green tea espuma and homemade dark green tea honey. The quantity is limited per day, so be sure to visit before it sells out.

[Kyoto Art Center] When the [Kyoto Art Center] opened, [Maeda Coffee Meirin] entered the classroom on the 1st floor as a cafe. The coffee and matcha parfait, which is only available here, has a rich and deep taste of matcha ice cream and rich vanilla ice cream that match [Maeda Coffee]'s coffee jelly.