Tea

Connected Sites: 14

Definition
WHS where tea is or was grown / processed.

Map

Connected Sites

  • Ancient Kyoto
    Inscribed: 1994
    4.44
    351
    20
    Kozanji Temple has a tea plantation and is considered the oldest tea garden in Japan (12th Century)
  • Mount Mulanje Cultural Landscape
    Inscribed: 2025
    2.73
    6
    2

    "tea estates which are still a significant feature of the landscape today. Among the oldest in Africa, the tea estates that spread in the southern part of the nominated property" (ICOMOS ev)
  • Wulingyuan
    Inscribed: 1992
    4.03
    56
    5
    Wulingyuan NP is famous for Kuzhong Tea Plantation
  • West Lake
    Inscribed: 2011
    3.30
    140
    6
    some of the tea plantations are in the core zone. (ICOMOS report)
  • Van Nellefabriek
    Van Nellefabriek
    Netherlands
    Inscribed: 2014
    2.48
    197
    9
    Includes a former tea factory
  • Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries
    Inscribed: 2018
    2.99
    74
    4
    Seonamsa Temple "Tea fields are located at the rear of the temple complex." - Advisory Body Evaluation Daeheungsa Temple also has been renowned for Korean tea culture with Master Choui who revived Korean dado (“the way of tea”) in the 19th century. - Supplementary Information File
  • Mount Wuyi
    Inscribed: 1999
    3.43
    48
    4
    AB "Also of interest is the evidence of the tea culture. In the 11th to 16th centuries there was an Imperial tea farm here, producing tea for the Imperial Court. Certain original elements survive, but the remainder of the structures visible today are recent reconstructions. In addition, the remains of ancient tea factories, from the 17th century onwards, also survive, mostly in fragmentary form." Also see re Tianxin Temple
    See www.chinatoday.com.cn
  • Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha
    Inscribed: 1996
    3.66
    98
    6
    Mount Emei - There are many tea plantations along the way to Golden Summit.
  • Mountain Railways of India
    Inscribed: 1999
    3.42
    84
    8
    AB describing the route of the Darjeeling Railway "finally the 30km alpine section to Darjeeling, dominated by stands of Himalayan pine and tea gardens."
  • Lushan National Park
    Inscribed: 1996
    2.92
    54
    3
    One of China's traditionally famous teas, Lu Shan Yun Wu is harvested from the peak of Mount Lu
  • Kuk
    Kuk
    Papua New Guinea
    Inscribed: 2008
    1.46
    3
    3
    The site has been used for growing tea. AB review In "the late 1960s ... the landscape was drained and converted into a tea plantation"
  • Hani Rice Terraces
    Inscribed: 2013
    3.56
    33
    4
    most villages have a small tea plantation (AB ev)
  • China Danxia
    Inscribed: 2010
    3.23
    55
    3
    Danxia Baimao Tea
  • Inscribed: 2023
    2.72
    14
    3
    "It consists of a tea production area composed of traditional villages located within old tea groves surrounded by forests and tea plantations" (AB ev)