In a fashionable area of Shizuoka city, an hour west of Tokyo by bullet train, is a teahouse where a young French woman is attempting to spread her passion for Japanese tea to the world, especially to youth unfamiliar with its place in their cultural heritage.Marie Roux, 24, has been working at Maruzen Tea Roastery cafe for less than a year. She greets customers with flawless Japanese, brewing them tea at custom-ordered temperatures and serving them tea-infused gelato.Roux, from Besancon in France's Bourgogne-Franche-Comte region, never expected to find her life consumed by her passion for …READ FULL ARTICLE
