A TEA shop has proved so popular with Japanese tourists, that staff have been asked to take their brewing-up skills to Osaka.

Huffkins Tea Shop, which has branches in Burford and Witney, will set up a ‘pop up shop’ at Osaka’s top department store, Hankyu.

It will be part of an exhibition of the best of British that will be opened by the British Ambassador to Japan David Warren. It is expected to attract a million visitors a day.

The British Fair, now in its 43rd year, will have a Cotswold theme. And Hankyu bosses scoured the Cotswolds to select businesses that best represented the very English character of the area.

The three-person team expect to serve 1,000 teas a day during the week-long event.

Other UK exhibitors include Prince Charles’ Highgrove brand; Cotswold Woollen Weavers of Filkins and the Upper Norton Jersey Cream Company.

Huffkins owner Topsy Taee said: “Japanese visitors to Burford are very gracious and a pleasure to serve – and they love English afternoon tea. They think of it as the classic English experience.”

She added: “We are sending out photographs and imagery and Hankyu will reproduce our colour scheme.

“Best of all, our highly energised and enthusiastic staff are going there, and I know they will work well with highly motivated and well-informed Hankyu staff.”

She will be joined by Huffkins baker Lorna Bennett-Murdoch and Witney branch manager Sue Forty at next month’s exhibition.

Keiji Hayashi, UK Project and business development executive of Hankyu Hanshin Express, said: “Japanese people like the English way of drinking tea because we too have a deep culture of tea drinking – although our tea is green. ”

Huffkins, which now has more than 80 members of staff, has been serving teas in Burford High Street for more than 100 years. It opened its Witney branch five years ago, and a branch in Stow-on-the-Wold earlier this year.

Staff bake their own bread and cakes on the premises and are now developing a line in supplying other retailers, including local delicatessens.