Lupicia Kyoto Teramachi Sanjo

The Good: It’s my favorite place for flavored teas.
Wide variety of tea.
The staff is always helpful.
The Could Be Improved: Many teas are seasonal, one time only, or only come in bags. The last two are by far the worst in my opinion.
Trick or Tea is an example of the only in bag in our gimmicky box… yea yea I get the joke, I’m foreign it isn’t that good the box is a pain. Just sell it in loose form and be done with it. I passed on it this year because of this.

I like the tea here as there are nice teas that could be made from cold water. No need to have boil water during this hot humid summer. All you have to do is to put the leafs in the water and leave it in the refrigerator for about an hour and it’s ready. The tea here has a realy nice flavor for this «Mizu-​dashi cha (water filtered tea)».
There are more then a hundred of tastes and the shop has selected flavor for the water filtered. I usually get the «Natsukoi (Summer love)» flavor for the summer. Also there are several other flavors that are for the water filtered.
Of cource there are nice flavors for usual tea, brown teas and green teas.
As there are various tastes and flavors, it is possible to sence it in the shop and also try the tastes. There are so many tastes and flavors that it is difficult to find the one that is just yout taste but fun to find several tastes and flavors.
Also they have English explanation so it easy to know what the flavor and tastes are. Some clerks can speak English.