Welcome to SONO, garden of organic Japanese teas.
We deliver organic Japanese teas from producers to you.
Deep-steamed Sencha – Yame, Fukuoka
¥1,900CHIYONOEN’s tea fields are located in the mountains, and the mountain weather makes the tea leaves thick. Longer steaming makes the tea taste mellow and the watercolor dark green. It can be brewed easily at both lower and higher water temperatures.
Sencha Hachiju Hachiya – Yame, Fukuoka
¥2,650Harvested 1 bud and 3 leaves around hachiju hachiya – the beginning of May, and carefully processed. Enjoy the rich taste and the fragrant aroma. The little stronger firing gives you pleasant aftertaste.
Gyokuro Chameijin – Shibushi, Kagoshima
¥4,860Sakamoto-san, the farmer of this gyokuro tea, changes cultivars and blends every year for each product.
And this is the best tea made with his 5 senses. Tea leaves were processed with much care and gently, and sealed in flavor at his tea factory so you get the most when you brew.
Please enjoy the best tastes with the tea master, Sakamoto-san.
Matcha Sae -Ceremonial Grade – Shibushi, Kagoshima
¥3,400This tea is a blend of Gyokuro Powder and Matcha. Please enjoy the delicious umami of Gyokuro Powder and the aromatic furnace incense of Matcha.
Sencha Hanatsumi – Yame, Fukuoka
¥3,410Enjoy the best Sencha with a rich umami taste. It tastes like sweet, beautiful sprouts in early spring, and the second and third cups are not astringent.
Goishicha – Post-Fermented Tea – Loose Leaf – Otoyo, Kochi
¥1,560Goishicha is one of four post-fermented teas in Japan. 2 stage fermentation develops lactic acids that give you natural sour tastes.
The name of goishicha comes from the fact that the scene of drying leaves after the 2nd fermentation is looked like Go stones. The amount of lactic acid bacteria in Goishicha has more than that of Pu-erh tea.
Goishicha is a registered trademark of Otoyo-cho Goishicha Cooperative.
Gyokuro Kiwami – Shibushi, Kagoshima
¥4,050Gyokuro Kiwami ranks higher than Chameijin. Please enjoy the sweet aroma and a gentle, rich flavor that envelops astringency and bitterness. It has a remarkably refined and mellow flavor. Savor the sweet, velvety umami as it melts on your tongue.
Sencha Okumidori – Yame, Fukuoka
¥2,650Fresh aroma and a fruity aftertaste. Bright watercolor and a mild umami taste.
To enjoy the original flavor and aroma of Okumidori, steamed a little stronger (not deep steamed) and heated a little stronger to give you a full-bodied umami.
Sencha Yamagiri – Yame, Fukuoka
¥1,900This is Harashima-san’s best-selling sencha. Distinctive Yabukita aroma. Beautiful watercolor. The umami and astringency will slowly spread over your tongue. Warp into the mountains where the tea leaves grew and enjoy the calming taste.
Gyokuro Zen – Shibushi, Kagoshima
¥6,480Gyokuro Zen is a fine and high-grade Sakamoto-san’s Gyokuro tea. This tea has a rich umami and sweetness with almost no bitterness, resulting in a very mellow and delicious tea.
Miyazaki Sabo – Kamairicha – Highest Grade
¥1,960Kamairicha – Yabukita is used only first harvest leaves from trees which provide the best taste and fragrance on our farm. Slowly processed young buds with lower temperatures and bring out the fresh leaf flavor and sweetness. This tea was served at the coffee break of the G7 Agriculture Ministers meeting in Japan in 2023.
Visee – Ishizuchi Kurocha Yokomineji – Post-Fermented Tea – Loose Leaf
¥1,600Ishizuchi Kurocha Yokomineji is a limited tea that was fermented and matured in the hermitage of Yokomine-ji, the 60th temple of the 88 Shikoku pilgrimage sites. The environment is the closest to Ishizuchi Village where Ishizuchi Kurocha has long been produced. Enjoy its strong sour taste and refreshing clean aftertaste.






