{"id":180671,"date":"2026-10-30T10:28:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T01:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=180671&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2026-10-30T10:28:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T01:28:55","slug":"us-restaurateurs-visit-yame-to-explore-japanese-tea","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/us-restaurateurs-visit-yame-to-explore-japanese-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"US restaurateurs visit Yame to explore Japanese tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six visitors from the United States are touring Yame\u2019s tea farms and production facilities through a Fukuoka Prefecture export-promotion project. They include New York restaurateur Rocco DiSpirito, who came to learn about Japanese tea for his menus. The group heard how tea is grown, compared sencha varieties and visited a factory. The project began in 2025 and aims to communicate the appeal of tea brewed from leaves, including sencha, whose exports trail matcha. The visitors are scheduled to stay until Oct. 30, 2026. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvq.co.jp\/news\/news.html?did=2026102800000002\" target=\"_blank\">TVQ News<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pref.fukuoka.lg.jp\/press-release\/yamecha-shisatsu.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fukuoka Prefecture<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/fnn_american-restaurant-owners-visit-yame_2026_cl.jpg?resize=1260%2C702&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1260\" height=\"702\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-180672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/fnn_american-restaurant-owners-visit-yame_2026_cl.jpg?w=1260&amp;ssl=1 1260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/fnn_american-restaurant-owners-visit-yame_2026_cl.jpg?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/fnn_american-restaurant-owners-visit-yame_2026_cl.jpg?resize=1024%2C571&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/fnn_american-restaurant-owners-visit-yame_2026_cl.jpg?resize=768%2C428&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><br \/>\nPhoto: TVQ News<\/p>\n<p>Get Fukuoka and Kyushu\u2019s top stories delivered to your inbox. The Now is Fukuoka Now\u2019s free biweekly newsletter featuring local news, events, culture, business, and community updates in English. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\">Subscribe to The Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summaries based on public content, errors may occur during translation. Images credited independently. Send feedback using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/contact\/\">this <strong>form<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six visitors from the United States are touring Yame\u2019s tea farms and production facilities through a Fukuoka Prefecture export-promotion project. They include New York restaurateur Rocco DiSpirito, who came to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30292,"featured_media":180672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-180671","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-yame","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/180671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}