Yunomi Brands
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".
- 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.
- Ashigaracha Labo - Ogikubo, Odawara, Kanagawa. Cultivating Yabukita tea leaves without the use of pesticides with her son and the NPO's supporters.
- Dokodemosora Tea Farm - Wakayama. Artisanal (Individual farmer: Dai Oizumi). No pesticides used in production, organic fertilizer only.
- Hachimanjyu Yakushima Tea - Yakushima Island, Kagoshima. Family-operated (Watanabe Family) tea farm & factory (buying from other farmers). Certified organic.
- Haruo Ogose - Shizuoka. Artisanal (Individual farmer). No pesticides, no fertilizer used in cultivation.
- Higashiyamacha - Higashiyama, Shizuoka. Agricultural Coop.
- Hinokuni Kumamoto - Kumamoto. Family-operated (Fujisako family). Certified organic.
- JA Kagoshima Chagyo - Kagoshima. Agricultural Coop.
- JA Kochi - Kochi. Agricultural Coop.
- Kaneroku Matsumoto Tea Garden - 3rd generation tea farmer Hiroki Matsumoto has been experimenting widely with smoking his black teas.
- 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.
- Kunitomo Tea Garden - Family owned tea farm and factory creating tea from wild tea plants, and cultivating fields derived from those plants.
- 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.
- Kyoto Obubu Tea Farms - Our mentors in the tea industry, these farmers are the reason Yunomi exist! Wazuka, Kyoto.
- Kyoto Tea Agricultural Cooperative
- Maehara Tea Farm - Family-owned tea farm & factory. Kagoshima.
- Makita Tea Garden - Family-owned artisanal tea farm. Sayama, Saitama.
- Marushige Shimizu Tea Farm - Family-owned tea farm & factory. Suizawa, Mie.
- Morita Tea Garden - Family-owned artisanal tea farm. Sayama, Saitama.
- Moriya Itoman - Family-owned artisanal tea farm. Okinawa
- Murakami Tea Garden - Yoshiwara, Shizuoka.
- Murata Tea Garden - Kikugawa, Shizuoka.
- Nagao Kitamura - Family-owned artisanal tea farm. Otoyo Town, Kochi Prefecture.
- Nakai Tea Farm - Tea farm & factory. Wazuka, Kyoto.
- NaturaliTea - Tea farm, factory, and farming cooperative. Fujieda, Shizuoka. JAS certified organic cultivation.
- Nozomu Goto - Artisanal tea farmer, Minami Satsuma, Kagoshima. (Sourced from Creha Tea)
- Oishi Tea Farm - Family-owned artisanal tea farm. Tsushima Island, Nagasaki Prefecture.
- Okutomi Tea Garden - Masahiro Okutomi, 15th generation tea farmer, 7-time Minister's Award Winner, Sayama, Saitama Prefecture.
- Otoyo Town Goishicha Producer's Association
- Shinichi Kihara - Uji, Kyoto Prefecture.
- Sumiyoshi Kuwazuru - Chiran Village, Kagoshima.
- Takarabako Tea Farm - Eco-farmer certified by Shimane Prefecture.
- Takeo Tea Farm - Organic, Mie Prefecture.
- Tarui Tea Farm - Organic, Shizuoka Prefecture.
- Tomizawa Tea Garden - Kumamoto Prefecture.
- Tsukigase Kenko Chaen Tsukigase, Nara Prefecture.
- Uejima Tea Farm - Wazuka Village, Kyoto Prefecture.
- Wacha Tea Garden - Wazuka Village, Kyoto Prefecture.
- Yokota Tea Garden - Sayama, Saitama Prefecture.
Tea Factories
- AOI Seicha
- Asuka Tea Factory
- Chasandai Tea Factory
- Furuichi Seicha
- Hagimura Tea Factory
- Hagiri Tea Factory
- Hishiwaen
- Homme Asakichi Tea Factory - Family business established in 1868.
- Koukaen Tea Factory
- Kunitaro Tea Factory
- Maruhide Iwasaki Seicha
- Marunaka Tea Factory
- Miyano Tea Factory
- Morita Tea Shop
- Nakazen
- Nishide Tea Factory
- Oguri Tea Farms
- Onocha Tea
- Ooigawachaen Tea Factory
- Osada Tea
- Oshikawa Seicha
- Seiko Tea
- Seikoen
- Shogyokuen Tea Factory
- Union Foods
Tea Merchants
- Cha no Ikedaya
- Chakouan
- Creha Tea
- Dobashien Tea Company
- Furyu Bancha Specialty Shop
- Nabeshima
- Nakamura-en
- Ocharaka Tea Shop
- Oisakien Tea Shop
- Shumpo Tea Shop
- Thes du Japon
- Uji Moritoku
- Uogashi Meicha
- Yabe-en Tea Shop
- Yamane-en
- Yorozuya
Tea Ware Vendors
- 4th-market
- Aiyu
- Fujisou Ceramics Studio
- Gotanbayashi Kama
- Isobe Ceramics
- Hiroshi Hirai
- Kaoli Nakamura
- Kenzan Kiln
- Kizoku Club
- Koizumi
- Maruei Takeo Shoten
- Marukatsu
- Miyama
- Miyama Tableware
- Mutsumi Yamada
- Nakayama Stoneworks
- Nanzan Ito
- Oiso Studio
- Okugawa Ceramics
- Okumura Seikan
- Saikai Ceramics
- Sawa Houzan
- Subaru
- tomboy ceramix works
- ttyokzk
- Yamaki Ikai
- Yamatane
Specialty Gourmet Vendors
- Bushuya
- Hamatomi
- Hoshiko
- Kamagari Bussan Co., Ltd.
- Kameya Foods
- Kanazawa Daichi
- Kawahito
- Kesennuma Kuwacha Eitoku
- Kouyoudo
- Kunohe Village Revitalization Project