Sustainable Tourism: Higashi Sonogi, Japan

September 12, 2021

Green Tea Homestay; Higashi Sonogi, Japan Nakao Village, nestled in Higashi Sonogi, Japan, is a rural community with a rich history of tea cultivation. Geologically, the land was originally formed by volcanic activity. Today, the average elevation is 250 meters altitude. Tea has grown in the region as early as five hundred years earlier. During the Edo period, "Lord Omura organized the cultivation of

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Anesce Dremen

Anesce Dremen is a U.S. writer, travel blogger, poet, and aspiring novelist. A first generation college student and domestic violence survivor, she studied in four cities in China (Xi’an, Beijing, Chengdu, and Suzhou) with the support of the Critical Language Scholarship and the Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship. Her bilingual work has been published in the Xi’an Daily, Shanghai Poetry Labs, T Ching, Global Tea Hut, Persephone’s Daughters, and Tiny Spoon, among others. She is a Fulbright ETA in India. Anesce is often found with a tea cup in hand, traveling between the U.S., China, and India. She is the international coordinator of The Quarantine Train. @WritersDremen