THE NODOKA

THE NODOKA produces high-quality organic Japanese green tea directly from the country's premier organic farms. The word "NODOKA" means calm and peaceful in Japanese. Traditional Japanese tea culture is a symbol of peace, harmony, and happiness.

Founder Suil Hong is from Tokyo, working to promote Japanese cultural products and events in New York. It was on a trip home, traveling through his country's beautiful rural landscapes, where he met traditional Japanese tea makers, and a new passion was born. In the USA, Suil started NODOKA, to connect traditional tea farmers with the rest of the world - taking them into the new, connected economy, while helping to preserve their craft.

THE NODOKA operates as a certified organic tea farm and factory in Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan. Shizuoka prefecture produces and processes 40% of Japan's raw tea leaves. Shizuoka, meaning quiet hill in Japanese, has an ideal climate for growing green tea plants and the freshly melted water from Mount Fuji helps to grow great-tasting tea leaves. NODOKA's organic tea, grown on tea fields at 1970ft elevations with cooler temperatures, naturally curtails pests. Sharp differences in day and night temperatures at this high elevation produce tea with a bright green color, rich with a full-bodied taste.

THE NODOKA's tea farm and manufacturing facility are JAS and USDA organic certified, which is rare – as only 3% of tea grown in Japan is certified as organic.