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Drinking tea is about sharing a moment with another person. Meet the people behind the tea of Japan here at Yunomi.life. 

And remember, there is a human story behind every product and knowing that story makes each cup taste just a little better.

Alphabetical Listing Yunomi Brands & Services Tea Farms & Coops Tea Factories Tea Merchants Tea Ware Gourmet Food Lifestyle

Commitment to helping small businesses

We define small businesses as those having 100 people or fewer. But scale is relative, and in the Japanese tea industry, while there are companies who have hundreds of employees and a few with thousands, most are family-managed operations with fewer than 20 employees. Farms especially rarely have more than 5 non-family employees (often apprentice farmers who will work for a few years to gain experience before starting their own farm).

The alphabetical listing below details every single producer we are selling, while the other sections are updated manually (and hasn't been updated since prior to 2020, so is due for an update soon!).

We encourage you to instead click on the producer's link on product pages and collection pages to learn more about the producer of a specific tea or other product you are considering purchasing. Every item has a human story behind it!

Alphabetical List of Vendors

  1. 4th-market
  2. Aiyu
  3. AOI Seicha
  4. Asano
  5. Ashigaracha Labo
  6. Ashikubo Teaworks
  7. Asuka Tea Factory
  8. Ayumi Farms
  9. Azuma Tea Garden
  10. Baisa Nakamura
  11. Bizenya
  12. Bushuya
  13. Chakouan
  14. Chasandai Tea Factory
  15. Chiyonoen Tea Garden
  16. Cierto
  17. Creha Tea
  18. Dobashien Tea Company
  19. Dokodemosora Tea Farm
  20. Endo White Thumb
  21. Fujiki Denshiro
  22. Fujisou Ceramics Studio
  23. Fujita Tokuta
  24. Fundodai Goyo
  25. Furuichi Seicha
  26. Furyu Bancha Specialty Shop
  27. Gotanbayashi Kama
  28. Gyokkou Kiln
  29. Hachimanjyu Yakushima Tea
  30. Haimen
  31. Hakusan Porcelain
  32. Higashiyamacha
  33. Hinokuni Kumamoto
  34. Hiragana
  35. Hiraoka Tea Garden
  36. Hiroshi Hirai
  37. Hvala
  38. Iba Takahiro Tea Garden
  39. Iba Yu Tea Garden
  40. Iguchi Ceramics
  41. Iijima Seitarou Shoten
  42. Ikegawa Tea Farm Coop
  43. Ikenaga Ironworks
  44. Isekatagami
  45. Isobe Ceramics
  46. Iyo Yuinoh Center
  47. JA Kagoshima Chagyo
  48. JA Kochi
  49. Japan Library
  50. Jinsui Kiln
  51. Kajihara Tea Garden
  52. Kamagari Bussan Co., Ltd.
  53. Kameya Foods
  54. Kamigata Ryugi
  55. Kamikatsu Bancha
  56. Kanazawa Daichi
  57. Kaneroku Matsumoto Tea Garden
  58. Kanes Tea Factory
  59. Kaneta Ota Tea Garden
  60. Kaoli Nakamura
  61. Kikizu Tea Garden
  62. Kimoto Glass Tokyo
  63. Kiroku Tea Garden
  64. Kiyosawa Tea Gardens
  65. Kizoku Club
  66. Kodama Toki
  67. Koizumi
  68. Konishi Tea Coop
  69. Koukien Tea Garden
  70. Kouyoudo
  71. Kuki Sangyo
  72. Kuma Tea Gardens
  73. Kunitaro Tea Factory
  74. Kunitomo Tea Garden
  75. Kunohe Village Revitalization Project
  76. Kuon
  77. Kurihara Tea Farm
  78. Kutaniyaki Bizan Kiln
  79. Kutaniyaki Miyama Kiln
  80. Kyo no Kanbutsuya
  81. Kyoto Obubu Tea Farms
  82. Little Tsumami
  83. LOLO
  84. Maeda Senko
  85. Maehara Tea Farm
  86. mami.mano
  87. Mannen
  88. Marushige Shimizu Tea Farm
  89. Maruyama Tea
  90. Masui Etsuro
  91. Mikuniya
  92. Mino Bunzan Kiln
  93. Mitani Sugar
  94. Mitsui Meicha
  95. Miyahara Hikari Seicha
  96. Miyama Lacquerware
  97. Miyama Tableware
  98. Miyano Tea Factory
  99. Miyazaki Sabou Tea Garden
  100. Morimasa Kiln
  101. Morita Beans
  102. Morita Tea Garden
  103. Morita Tea Shop
  104. Murakami Tea Garden
  105. Murata Tea Garden
  106. Muromachi Printing
  107. Nabeshima Meicha
  108. Nagai Nori
  109. Nagao Kitamura
  110. Nagatani Tea
  111. Nakai Tea Farm
  112. Nakamura-en
  113. Nakayama Stoneworks
  114. Nakazen
  115. Nankei Pottery
  116. NaturaliTea
  117. Nishide Tea Factory
  118. Nishimoto Co., Ltd.
  119. Ocha no Sankoen
  120. Oda Pottery
  121. Ogura Tea Garden
  122. Oguri Tea Farms
  123. Ohana Botanica
  124. Oishi Tea Farm
  125. Oiso Studio
  126. Okugawa Ceramics
  127. Okuizumo Rose Garden
  128. Okumura Seikan
  129. Okutomi Tea Garden
  130. Ooigawachaen Tea Factory
  131. Osada Tea
  132. Oshima Stoneworks
  133. Ota Yusuke
  134. Otoyo Town Goishicha Producer's Association
  135. Otsuchi Sashiko Recovery Project
  136. Paradise Plan
  137. Plumeria Inc.
  138. Saikai Ceramics
  139. Satsukikai
  140. Seikoen
  141. Seiwa Packaging
  142. Shinichi Kihara
  143. Shinkai Shio
  144. Shinro Yamamoto
  145. Shizukan
  146. Shogyokuen Tea Factory
  147. Shoko Kiln
  148. Shotoen Ceramics
  149. Shouhou Kiln
  150. Shuchi Tea Garden
  151. Subaru
  152. Sueyoshi Tea Atelier
  153. Suikaen
  154. Suzuki Ceramics
  155. Takakuwa Metal
  156. Takeo Tea Farm
  157. Tarui Tea Farm
  158. Tea Farm Mitocha
  159. Teruyuki Kiln
  160. Tomizawa Shoten
  161. Tomizawa Tea Garden
  162. Touetsugama
  163. Toyo Sasaki Glass
  164. Tsujiki Tea Garden
  165. Tsujiri Ichihonten
  166. Tsuzuki Yutaka
  167. Uejima Tea Farm
  168. Uogashi Meicha
  169. Wada Corporation
  170. Wakoen Tea Farm
  171. Yabe-en Tea Shop
  172. Yamaki Ikai
  173. Yamane-en
  174. Yamani Tableware
  175. Yamatane
  176. Yamatsu Kiln
  177. Yancha
  178. Yokota Tea Garden
  179. Yoshida Tea Garden
  180. Yoshimura Pack
  181. Yoshino Tea Garden
  182. Yunomi Lifestyle
  183. Yunomi Pantry
  184. Yunomi Services
  185. Yunomi Tea
  186. Yunomi.life
  187. za tta na
  188. Zenkouen Tea Garden

Yunomi Brands

  1. Yunomi Lifestyle
  2. Yunomi Pantry
  3. Yunomi Services
  4. Yunomi Tea

Tea Farms & Agricultural Cooperatives

Most independent farmers operate their own processing factory and may have their own finishing equipment or outsource the finishing step of their teas. This list includes farms, farm + factory operations, and farming cooperatives, so not may not always represent a "single estate".

  1. Azuma Tea Garden - Wazuka, Kyoto. Family-operated (Azuma family). Partially certified organic, other tea fields are awaiting certification. No pesticides used in production. Organic fertilizer only.
  2. Ashigaracha Labo - Ogikubo, Odawara, Kanagawa. Cultivating Yabukita tea leaves without the use of pesticides with her son and the NPO's supporters.
  3. Dokodemosora Tea Farm - Wakayama. Artisanal (Individual farmer: Dai Oizumi). No pesticides used in production, organic fertilizer only.
  4. Hachimanjyu Yakushima Tea - Yakushima Island, Kagoshima. Family-operated (Watanabe Family) tea farm & factory (buying from other farmers). Certified organic.
  5. Haruo Ogose - Shizuoka. Artisanal (Individual farmer). No pesticides, no fertilizer used in cultivation.
  6. Higashiyamacha - Higashiyama, Shizuoka. Agricultural Coop.
  7. Hinokuni Kumamoto - Kumamoto. Family-operated (Fujisako family). Certified organic.
  8. JA Kagoshima Chagyo - Kagoshima. Agricultural Coop.
  9. JA Kochi - Kochi. Agricultural Coop.
  10. Kaneroku Matsumoto Tea Garden - 3rd generation tea farmer Hiroki Matsumoto has been experimenting widely with smoking his black teas.
  11. Kuma Tea Gardens - Operated by the Kuma family in mountains above Yame City, Fukuoka, farmer Masahiro Kuma won the 2017 Minister's Award in the Gyokuro category of the National Tea Competition--literally the best gyokuro farmer in 2017.
  12. Kunitomo Tea Garden - Family owned tea farm and factory creating tea from wild tea plants, and cultivating fields derived from those plants.
  13. Kurihara Tea Farm - One of our oldest partners, the Kurihara family are award winning specialists in Gyokuro tea, based in the picturesque Yabe Village, Yame, Fukuoka.
  14. Kyoto Obubu Tea Farms - Our mentors in the tea industry, these farmers are the reason Yunomi exist! Wazuka, Kyoto.
  15. Kyoto Tea Agricultural Cooperative
  16. Maehara Tea Farm - Family-owned tea farm & factory. Kagoshima.
  17. Makita Tea Garden - Family-owned artisanal tea farm. Sayama, Saitama.
  18. Marushige Shimizu Tea Farm - Family-owned tea farm & factory. Suizawa, Mie. 
  19. Morita Tea Garden - Family-owned artisanal tea farm. Sayama, Saitama.
  20. Moriya Itoman - Family-owned artisanal tea farm. Okinawa
  21. Murakami Tea Garden - Yoshiwara, Shizuoka.
  22. Murata Tea Garden - Kikugawa, Shizuoka.
  23. Nagao Kitamura - Family-owned artisanal tea farm. Otoyo Town, Kochi Prefecture.
  24. Nakai Tea Farm - Tea farm & factory. Wazuka, Kyoto.
  25. NaturaliTea - Tea farm, factory, and farming cooperative. Fujieda, Shizuoka. JAS certified organic cultivation.
  26. Nozomu Goto - Artisanal tea farmer, Minami Satsuma, Kagoshima. (Sourced from Creha Tea)
  27. Oishi Tea Farm - Family-owned artisanal tea farm. Tsushima Island, Nagasaki Prefecture.
  28. Okutomi Tea Garden - Masahiro Okutomi, 15th generation tea farmer, 7-time Minister's Award Winner, Sayama, Saitama Prefecture.
  29. Otoyo Town Goishicha Producer's Association
  30. Shinichi Kihara - Uji, Kyoto Prefecture.
  31. Sumiyoshi Kuwazuru - Chiran Village, Kagoshima.
  32. Takarabako Tea Farm - Eco-farmer certified by Shimane Prefecture.
  33. Takeo Tea Farm - Organic, Mie Prefecture.
  34. Tarui Tea Farm - Organic, Shizuoka Prefecture.
  35. Tomizawa Tea Garden - Kumamoto Prefecture.
  36. Tsukigase Kenko Chaen Tsukigase, Nara Prefecture.
  37. Uejima Tea Farm - Wazuka Village, Kyoto Prefecture.
  38. Wacha Tea Garden - Wazuka Village, Kyoto Prefecture.
  39. Yokota Tea Garden - Sayama, Saitama Prefecture.

Tea Factories

  1. AOI Seicha
  2. Asuka Tea Factory
  3. Chasandai Tea Factory
  4. Furuichi Seicha
  5. Hagimura Tea Factory
  6. Hagiri Tea Factory
  7. Hishiwaen
  8. Homme Asakichi Tea Factory - Family business established in 1868.
  9. Koukaen Tea Factory
  10. Kunitaro Tea Factory
  11. Maruhide Iwasaki Seicha
  12. Marunaka Tea Factory
  13. Miyano Tea Factory
  14. Morita Tea Shop
  15. Nakazen
  16. Nishide Tea Factory
  17. Oguri Tea Farms
  18. Onocha Tea
  19. Ooigawachaen Tea Factory
  20. Osada Tea 
  21. Oshikawa Seicha
  22. Seiko Tea
  23. Seikoen
  24. Shogyokuen Tea Factory
  25. Union Foods

Tea Merchants

  1. Cha no Ikedaya
  2. Chakouan
  3. Creha Tea
  4. Dobashien Tea Company
  5. Furyu Bancha Specialty Shop
  6. Nabeshima
  7. Nakamura-en
  8. Ocharaka Tea Shop
  9. Oisakien Tea Shop
  10. Shumpo Tea Shop
  11. Thes du Japon
  12. Uji Moritoku
  13. Uogashi Meicha
  14. Yabe-en Tea Shop
  15. Yamane-en
  16. Yorozuya

Tea Ware Vendors

  1. 4th-market
  2. Aiyu
  3. Fujisou Ceramics Studio
  4. Gotanbayashi Kama
  5. Isobe Ceramics
  6. Hiroshi Hirai
  7. Kaoli Nakamura
  8. Kenzan Kiln
  9. Kizoku Club
  10. Koizumi
  11. Maruei Takeo Shoten
  12. Marukatsu
  13. Miyama
  14. Miyama Tableware
  15. Mutsumi Yamada
  16. Nakayama Stoneworks
  17. Nanzan Ito
  18. Oiso Studio
  19. Okugawa Ceramics
  20. Okumura Seikan
  21. Saikai Ceramics
  22. Sawa Houzan
  23. Subaru
  24. tomboy ceramix works
  25. ttyokzk
  26. Yamaki Ikai
  27. Yamatane

Specialty Gourmet Vendors

  1. Bushuya
  2. Hamatomi
  3. Hoshiko
  4. Kamagari Bussan Co., Ltd.
  5. Kameya Foods
  6. Kanazawa Daichi
  7. Kawahito
  8. Kesennuma Kuwacha Eitoku
  9. Kouyoudo
  10. Kunohe Village Revitalization Project

Lifestyle Product Vendors

  1. Haimen
  2. Hiragana
  3. Ishigaki Sangyo
  4. Iyo Yuinoh Center
  5. Kamigata Ryugi
  6. Little Tsumami
  7. Maeda Senko
  8. mami.mano
  9. Muromachi Printing
  10. Naoyuki Ashino
  11. Nishimoto Co., Ltd.
  12. Office 67
  13. Otsuchi Sashiko Recovery Project
  14. Plumeria Inc.
  15. Saki-Pon
  16. Seiwa Packaging
  17. Shinko Studio
  18. tohachiya