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The largest tea-growing area in Japan, opened up by former shogunal retainers.
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The Makinohara Plateau is a plateau in west-central Shizuoka Prefecture, in the south-east of the Enshu region. It is also called Nunobikihara. It is a diluvial plateau lying between the lower reaches of the Oi River and the Kikugawa River. It spans the present cities of Shimada, Makinohara and Kikugawa. Until the Edo period it was common land of the villages at its foot (now oaza), a so-called grass-cutting ground, and undeveloped wilderness spread across it. The place name is said to come from a 'pasture' having been there, but this is uncertain. Even now many places are continuations or detached parts of the oaza.
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