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My city is Shizuoka. Shizuoka is very famous green tea. Shizuoka accounts for 45% of Japan's overall tea prodution, and the prefecture ia at the leading-odge research on the benefits that can be obtained from green tea.Green tea plantations date back to 1241, when a monk named Shoichi returned from sung china to his native plovince of Shizuoka with green tea seeds, which were then planted in this area. Tea growing became economieally important in Shizuoka after the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate when a former retainer of the shogun began to cultivate green tea in Makinohara for its trade potential. Shizuoka's climate the quality of its water as well as its proximity to major ports all enhanced this area's position as a major green tea producer green tea comes in a number of different Varieties suitable for drinking on different accasions.