Abstract
It is a study on Uji City, Kyoto in which tea-producing areas are said to originate from temples. Through analysis of changes in land use and tea production volume, this article aims to explain the transition process of tea plantation in Uji, and the characteristic of cultural landscape in tea-producing areas with a temple tea origin. As a result, it is revealed that (1) there was a significant decrease of tea plantation in Uji from 1890 to 2006. (2) Since 1955, distribution and location of tea plantation have significant changed. (3) There are also changes in relationship between tea plantation and other land use around it, from 1890 to 2006. From the above, when preservation of cultural landscape in Uji City, a reconsideration on the selection of elements is required.
