Single Origin Tea Festival 2016

It's about time Tokyo's discerning tea-sippers got their own festival: after all, gatherings celebrating the joys of artisanal coffee and single-origin beans have been going on around the city for years now, while the cuppa crowd has been left by the wayside. All that changes in October, when the Single Origin Tea Festival takes over Asakusa's Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center. Bring your own mug and get ready to taste fine brews from all over the world, learn more about the intricacies of tea at one of the many seminars, and shop for rare leaves to take back home. No tempest in a teacup, this one.