Japanese green tea from MARIMO partner tea gardens
Our Japanese green teas come from family tea gardens who grow and harvest their tea bushes by themselves, and also process the teas in their own facilities. Most of the tea gardens work in accordance with the guidelines for organic agriculture, or with their own organic standards. Find out more on each tea garden’s page on this website.
Our line-up of Japanese teas includes well-known categories such as Sencha, which we import in a great range of variations and price levels, as well as other standard categories such as kukicha, houjicha, henmaicha and bancha up to gyokuro, and also unusual rarities, among them hand-picked teas. We even provide rare Japanese tea categories such as kamairicha and tamaryokucha in various grades and quality levels. Currently, we source our matcha products from four different Japanese tea gardens, which are all specialised on different production methods – from simple qualities for food manufacturers to matcha for everyday, up to absolutely rare, hand-picked and hand-sorted matcha products which are unrivalled in the world. While our standard Japanese teas are mostly available in larger quantities as well, it is easy to understand that really rare products – such as matcha made from hand-picked and hand-sorted tencha – are available only in tiny quantities.
We buy all the teas directly, and offer them unmixed in our MARIMO line-up: We do not mix Japanese green tea from different families. Therefore each tea clearly expresses the character of the region it comes from, and the style of the tea garden which made it – no matter if it is a sencha, kukicha, matcha, houjicha, kabusecha or bancha. Six of our partner tea gardens are located in the very South of Japan, on the island of Kyushu. There they produce green teas which present a nice contrast to other large tea regions, which rather use conventional production methods.
Please select a tea garden family from the menu of this page to read more about their production methods, variations of tea, and their philosophy, and see some photos of the organic tea gardens.
Select a tea garden by clicking on „Tea gardens in Kyushu“ or „Tea gardens in Honshu“ in the menu above to read more about the tea gardens‘ history and variations of green tea, take a look at pictures from the organic tea gardens, and find out about the individual characteristics of our tea gardens.
Photo: Iwao Hayashi in his organic tea garden in Mie prefecture (May 2014). He is the founder of the organic family tea garden who asked us in 2007 if we would like to distribute his tea in Europe, and thus helped build the foundation of MARIMO’s organic green tea import.