Sakura Notes

A small blog about tea, trains, and slow mornings.

The 6:14 to Kamakura

There is a particular quiet to the first train, before the city fully wakes.

On brewing sencha at the right temperature

Too hot and it turns bitter; a minute of patience changes everything.

Rain, and the smell of old wood

Notes from a week spent mostly indoors, which turned out to be no bad thing.