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Meet Asaya
Meet Asaya
Asaya Herbal World is where Asaya shares his love of tea. He is a passionate tea drinker, and he takes tea very seriously.
Asaya often spends about an hour on a single tea preparation, giving each infusion the time and attention it needs.
He goes to tea conferences to learn from growers, makers and other tea lovers, and brings what he learns back here.
This site is where he shares it all: where tea grows, how it is made, how to brew it well, and the places his love of tea takes him.
- Passionate tea drinker
- Takes tea very seriously
- About an hour per preparation
- Goes to tea conferences
Follow along
Three ways in

The hour-long ritual
Slow tea
Why an hour for one tea is time well spent, and one shape that hour can take.
Read
Travels
Where’s Asaya now?
Notes from the world’s tea regions, and the teas found there.
See the map
Conferences
The conference notebook
The big ideas growers, makers and tea lovers talk about.
Read