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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. Ashigaracha Labo
  5. Ashikubo Teaworks
  6. Asuka Tea Factory
  7. Ayumi Farms
  8. Azuma Tea Garden
  9. Baisa Nakamura
  10. Bizenya
  11. Bushuya
  12. Chakouan
  13. Chasandai Tea Factory
  14. Chikumeido
  15. Chiyonoen Tea Garden
  16. Creha Tea
  17. Dobashien Tea Company
  18. Dokodemosora Tea Farm
  19. Endo White Thumb
  20. Fujiki Denshiro
  21. Fujisou Ceramics Studio
  22. Fujita Tokuta
  23. Fundodai Goyo
  24. Furuichi Seicha
  25. Furyu Bancha Specialty Shop
  26. Gotanbayashi Kama
  27. Gyokkou Kiln
  28. Hachimanjyu Yakushima Tea
  29. Hagimura Tea Factory
  30. Haimen
  31. Hakusan Porcelain
  32. Haruo Ogose
  33. Higashiyamacha
  34. Hinokuni Kumamoto
  35. Hiragana
  36. Hiraoka Tea Garden
  37. Hiroshi Hirai
  38. Hishiwaen
  39. Homme Asakichi Tea Factory
  40. Hvala
  41. Iba Takahiro Tea Garden
  42. Iba Yu Tea Garden
  43. Iguchi Ceramics
  44. Iijima Seitarou Shoten
  45. Ikegawa Tea Farm Coop
  46. Ikenaga Ironworks
  47. Isekatagami
  48. Isobe Ceramics
  49. Iyo Yuinoh Center
  50. JA Kagoshima Chagyo
  51. JA Kochi
  52. Japan Library
  53. Kajihara Tea Garden
  54. Kamagari Bussan Co., Ltd.
  55. Kameya Foods
  56. Kamigata Ryugi
  57. Kamikatsu Bancha
  58. Kanazawa Daichi
  59. Kaneroku Matsumoto Tea Garden
  60. Kanes Tea Factory
  61. Kaneta Ota Tea Garden
  62. Kaoli Nakamura
  63. Kenzan Kiln
  64. Kikizu Tea Garden
  65. Kimoto Glass Tokyo
  66. Kiroku Tea Garden
  67. Kitano Toujudo
  68. Kiyosawa Tea Gardens
  69. Kizoku Club
  70. Kodama Toki
  71. Kogane Midori Tea Garden
  72. Koizumi
  73. Konishi Tea Coop
  74. Koukien Tea Garden
  75. Kouyoudo
  76. Kuki Sangyo
  77. Kuma Tea Gardens
  78. Kunitaro Tea Factory
  79. Kunitomo Tea Garden
  80. Kunohe Village Revitalization Project
  81. Kuon
  82. Kurihara Tea Farm
  83. Kutaniyaki Bizan Kiln
  84. Kutaniyaki Miyama Kiln
  85. Kyo no Kanbutsuya
  86. Kyoto Obubu Tea Farms
  87. Little Tsumami
  88. LOLO
  89. Maeda Senko
  90. Maehara Tea Farm
  91. Makita Tea Garden
  92. mami.mano
  93. Mannen
  94. Marui Shokuhin
  95. Marushige Shimizu Tea Farm
  96. Maruyama Tea
  97. Masui Etsuro
  98. Mikuniya
  99. Mino Bunzan Kiln
  100. Mitani Sugar
  101. Mitsui Meicha
  102. Miyahara Hikari Seicha
  103. Miyama Lacquerware
  104. Miyama Tableware
  105. Miyano Tea Factory
  106. Miyazaki Kamimizu Tea Farm
  107. Miyazaki Sabou Tea Garden
  108. Morimasa Kiln
  109. Morita Beans
  110. Morita Tea Garden
  111. Morita Tea Shop
  112. Murakami Tea Garden
  113. Murata Tea Garden
  114. Muromachi Printing
  115. Nabeshima Meicha
  116. Nagai Nori
  117. Nagao Kitamura
  118. Nagatani Tea
  119. Nakai Tea Farm
  120. Nakamura-en
  121. Nakayama Stoneworks
  122. Nakazen
  123. Nankei Pottery
  124. Naoyuki Ashino
  125. NaturaliTea
  126. Nishide Tea Factory
  127. Nishimoto Co., Ltd.
  128. Ocha no Sankoen
  129. Ocharaka Tea Shop
  130. Oda Pottery
  131. Ogura Tea Garden
  132. Oguraya
  133. Oguri Tea Farms
  134. Ohana Botanica
  135. Ohtaka Tea Garden
  136. Oishi Tea Farm
  137. Oiso Studio
  138. Okada Tea Farm
  139. Okugawa Ceramics
  140. Okuizumo Rose Garden
  141. Okumura Seikan
  142. Okutomi Tea Garden
  143. Ooigawachaen Tea Factory
  144. Osada Tea
  145. Oshima Stoneworks
  146. Ota Yusuke
  147. Otafuku
  148. Otoyo Town Goishicha Producer's Association
  149. Otsuchi Sashiko Recovery Project
  150. Paradise Plan
  151. Plumeria Inc.
  152. Saikai Ceramics
  153. Sanwa Rice Farms
  154. Sawa Houzan
  155. Seikoen
  156. Seiwa Packaging
  157. Shinichi Kihara
  158. Shinkai Shio
  159. Shinko Studio
  160. Shinro Yamamoto
  161. Shizukan
  162. Shogyokuen Tea Factory
  163. Shoko Kiln
  164. Shotoen Ceramics
  165. Shouhou Kiln
  166. Shuchi Tea Garden
  167. Shumpo Tea Shop
  168. Subaru
  169. Sueyoshi Tea Atelier
  170. Suikaen
  171. Suzuki Ceramics
  172. Takakuwa Metal
  173. Takasuke Kiln
  174. Takeo Tea Farm
  175. Tango Tanimura
  176. Tarui Tea Farm
  177. Tea Farm Mitocha
  178. Teruyuki Kiln
  179. tohachiya
  180. Tomizawa Shoten
  181. Tomizawa Tea Garden
  182. Touetsugama
  183. Toyo Sasaki Glass
  184. Tsujiki Tea Garden
  185. Tsujiri Ichihonten
  186. Tsukigase Kenko Chaen
  187. Tsuzuki Yutaka
  188. ttyokzk
  189. Uejima Tea Farm
  190. Union Foods
  191. Uogashi Meicha
  192. Wada Corporation
  193. Wakoen Tea Farm
  194. Yabe-en Tea Shop
  195. Yamaki Ikai
  196. Yamamoto Kazuma
  197. Yamane-en
  198. Yamani Tableware
  199. Yamatane
  200. Yamatsu Kiln
  201. Yancha
  202. Yokota Tea Garden
  203. Yorozuya
  204. Yoshida Tea Garden
  205. Yoshikawa Steel
  206. Yoshimura Pack
  207. Yoshino Tea Garden
  208. Yunomi Lifestyle
  209. Yunomi Pantry
  210. Yunomi Services
  211. Yunomi Tea
  212. Yunomi.life
  213. za tta na
  214. Zamami Farm
  215. 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