Sea and mountain · Shizuoka · Kagoshima · Yame

Japanese matcha, shipped direct from the farm.

Ceremonial-grade matcha for cafés, restaurants, hotels and retailers across the US. Wagyu and nori too.

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Why Umiyama

Built for businesses that sell matcha every day

A path between rows of tea bushes in Shizuoka — Between the rows at our partner farm, Shizuoka.

Color in the cup

Bright green in a latte, smooth finish, no bitterness.

The grades we carry were chosen for how they look and taste in milk, which is where most café matcha ends up. They stay a clear green in a latte and finish smooth, without the bitterness you get from cheaper leaf that was picked late or shaded for too short a time.

Milled to order

Our house blend is stone-milled fresh for each order, up to 1,200 kg a month.

Our Shizuoka tea house keeps the house blend leaf in reserve and only stone-mills it once your order comes in, so your matcha is ground for you, not taken off a shelf. It also means a custom blend of grades is put together and milled just for you. About 1,200 kg is available every month, 300 kg of each of grades S, A, B and C, so when your volume goes up you stay on the same grade instead of switching suppliers partway through the year.

Direct and simple

Ships from Japan to your door. Quoted in US dollars.

Your order ships straight from Japan to you, and every quote is written in US dollars, so the price we agree on is the price you pay even when the yen moves between the quote and the invoice.

We know the farms

Every new farm is visited in person and its tea tested before we offer it.

Building relationships with farms is the core of what we do. Before we sell from a new farm, it is visited in person and its tea is tested for quality, and every lot is tasted before it goes on the list. We are based in Japan, so the fields are always within reach, and most of what we sell comes from people we know by name. That is how we keep quality steady, and how we find products that are not in any catalog.

Who we supply

Built for businesses, not shoppers

Cafés

Lattes and signature drinks

Ceremonial and café grades, blended to your menu.

Restaurants

Desserts, drinks, wagyu

Matcha for the kitchen and bar, plus Japanese wagyu.

Hotels

In-room matcha

Single-serve sticks for rooms, lounges and breakfast.

Retail

Ready for the shelf

Flavored tins and Yame teas, barcoded. See the retail line

Our matcha

Four matcha lines

Tell us what you make. We match the region and grade, or blend to your taste and price.

Map of Japan with Shizuoka and Kagoshima highlighted

House blend

Shizuoka × Kagoshima 静岡・鹿児島

Our best. Ceremonial grade, milled to order in Shizuoka.

Made by our preferred partner, a Shizuoka tea house that has processed and finished tea for three centuries. They blend leaf from Shizuoka and Kagoshima and stone-mill it in Shizuoka, and it shows in the color and the smooth finish, whether you serve it whisked or in a latte.

Single origin

100% Shizuoka 静岡

Same tea house, one origin. Limited supply each month.

For buyers who want a single origin on the label. The same Shizuoka tea house sets aside a limited amount of 100% Shizuoka matcha each month, in grades S to D, with a minimum of 25 kg per grade.

Blending

Yame 八女

For blends, iced drinks and baking.

Grown near us on Kyushu, and the grade we reach for when a customer is blending, making iced drinks or baking rather than serving matcha on its own.

Map of Japan with Kyoto and Kagoshima highlighted

Single cultivar

Uji & Kagoshima 宇治・鹿児島

Sold by the lot. Smaller orders welcome.

Limited lots of single-cultivar matcha, such as Okumidori, Yabukita, Saemidori and Yutaka Midori, from Uji, Wazuka and Kagoshima. They range from first-harvest ceremonial to autumn latte grades, and some can be ordered from about 10 kg. Lots change, so ask what is available now. Mie, Saga and Nagasaki are available on special order.

Grades

From whisked tea service to the bakery

S, A, B: ceremonial. C: café. D: kitchen.

SCeremonial

Tea service

Our top grade, for matcha served on its own.

ACeremonial

Signature drinks

For the latte you put your name on.

BCeremonial

Café lattes

Our most popular. Bright in milk, priced for every day.

CCafé

Iced and blends

Holds up in iced drinks and smoothies.

DKitchen

Baking and food

Soft serve, pastry, anything cooked.

House blend: milled to order, up to 300 kg each of grades S to C a month. Grade D comes from our 100% Shizuoka line. Quoted by grade and volume. Samples after we've talked.

Full grade specs and how it's made →

Whisking matcha in a stoneware bowl with a bamboo chasen — Whisked matcha

Iced matcha in a tall glass — Iced matcha

A smear of matcha powder beside a cup of whisked matcha — Grade S

Hands whisking matcha in a black bowl — Whisked by hand

"Tencha, the shaded leaf, stone-milled within weeks of harvest."

For stores

Japanese tea, ready for the shelf

Retail
Flavored matcha tins
Four flavors, 30 g tins, barcoded.
More
First-flush Shizuoka matcha in white peach, strawberry, vanilla and chocolate, packed in 30 g pull-top cans that come case-packed and barcoded, ready for the shelf.
Retail
Yame matcha and teas
Matcha, sticks, gift tins, loose-leaf tea.
More
A full tea shelf from one origin, with matcha in 30 g and 300 g packs, single-serve sticks and boxed gift tins, alongside gyokuro, genmaicha and hojicha.
Private label
Your brand, our tea
Private label, handled in Japan.
More
Any of our bulk grades packed under your own label, with the printing and the back-label compliance work handled on our side in Japan before it ships.

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How it works

From a conversation to a standing order in three steps

Talk

Tell us your menu

A few lines about your drinks and volume.

Send us a few lines about what you make and roughly how much matcha you go through in a month, and we will come back with the region and grade we think fit, and a sample when that makes sense.

Quote

A fixed US-dollar quote

Price per kilo and lead time, in writing.

You get a price per kilo for that grade at your volume, written in US dollars, together with the lead time so you know when it will land.

Ship

Direct from Japan

Milled and packed in about a week, then shipped to your door.

After payment, your order is milled and packed in about a week, then ships from Japan to your door. We work through the import paperwork with you so nothing gets stuck at the border.

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Also Japanese wagyu for restaurants. Ask us.

Walking the farm road between tea fields in Shizuoka

Our story

Tea from the mountains, nori from the family

Umiyama means sea and mountain. The mountain is tea: our matcha comes from partner farms in the hills of Shizuoka, Kagoshima and Kyushu. The sea is nori: my wife's family grows it on the Ariake Sea in Saga.

I'm originally from Florida and run the company from Fukuoka. Our first customers were cafés back home that wanted a reliable source for matcha. Wagyu came later through the same trading partners, and the family's Saga nori will be the next thing we bring over once it is ready.

Saga nori · coming soon

Sourcing

Don't see it here? Ask us.

If it's grown or made in Japan, odds are we can find it through our farm network. Tell us the product and the volume you need.

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Get a quote

Tell us what you make. We'll match the matcha to it.

For cafés, restaurants, hotels, supermarkets, specialty stores and distributors in the US.

Emailinfo@umiyamaco.com
Based inFukuoka, Japan · Melbourne, Florida
Ships toUnited States · Canada: ask us

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