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Effort toward the Registration

Let’s Register “the Landscapes of Uji-cha tea production” to the World Cultural Heritage Site!

Kyoto prefecture promotes Japanese tea and Uji-cha, aiming the possibility of registering it to UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Significance in Aiming for Reistering Uji-cha tea to the World Cultural Heritage Site

The efforts toward the registeration to the World Cultural Heritage will lead to;
convey the value of Uji-cha tea to the people in Japan and in the world and share it with many people.
make a system to inherit it to the future as a valuable treasure for all human.

Examination toward the registration of Uji-cha tea to the World Cultural Heritage Site

June 2011 and March 2012
Registration Possibility Examination Committee (Twice)
Concept: Representative asset group for Japanese tea culture
August 2012, March and August 2013, and February 2014
Registration Examination Committee (4 times)
Concept: Home of Japanese Tea “Landscapes of the Production of Uji-cha”
March 2014
Composition of join proposal (Prefecture and related municipals)
June 2014
The governor of Kyoto Prefecture proposed to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
June 2015
Revise of join proposal (Prefecture and related municipals)
The governor proposed to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.