{
  "id": 3488762,
  "title": "Forget Drinking Green Tea — This Tokyo Wellness Experience Lets You Smoke It",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/forget-drinking-green-tea-this-tokyo-wellness-experience-lets-you",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-26T10:28:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Tokyo Weekender",
    "slug": "tokyo-weekender",
    "url": "https://www.tokyoweekender.com/health-and-beauty/smoking-green-tea-tokyo-janu-chaji-experience/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Aman's new brand, Janu, is a wellness-focused hotel in Tokyo's Azabudai Hills. Their latest offering, the Chaji Experience, reimagines traditional Japanese tea ceremonies for modern travelers. The experience starts with a five-course sushi meal at the hotel's sushi restaurant, Iikura, designed to calm the mind and prepare guests for connection. Following the meal, guests walk to a historic tea house, Ohashi Saryo, for the chakou session. This session involves inhaling nicotine-free, ritualistic smoke from pure green tea leaves heated over charcoal. The aroma gradually changes, from fresh spring notes to warm roastiness and a sweet finish, inducing a tranquil state known as cha-yoi. The experience concludes with traditional matcha and seasonal wagashi, reinforcing the sense of shared calm and connection. Janu's Chaji Experience promises a unique, multi-sensory journey that distills the essence of classic Japanese hospitality while integrating contemporary innovation and social wellness.",
  "summary": "As the first hotel under Aman’s new sibling brand, Janu has established itself as a beacon of social wellness in Tokyo’s soaring Azabudai Hills. But beyond its airy interiors and sprawling spa, the hotel is championing a deeper narrative: a reinvention of how global travelers connect with Japanese culture, each other and themselves. This August, […] The post Forget Drinking Green Tea — This Tokyo…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}