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Tea shops · JapanOur favorite tea shops in Yokohama
4 places we'd send a friend to.
Yokohama's loose tea lives in Naka-ku, within a twenty-minute walk. Chinatown has a Chinese tea specialist with two shops a few blocks apart and a 1949 grocery with a tea shelf; Isezakicho has a Japanese tea merchant trading in the same street since 1910; and a Ceylon-only shop sits a minute from JR Ishikawacho station. Prices on this page run from ¥480 for 80 g of Keemun at the grocery to ¥1,620 for 50 g of a 2026 Uva from a named Sri Lankan estate, all tax included.
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Goku Chaso (悟空茶荘)
Chinatown (Yamashita-cho), Naka-ku; second shop Goku 1-go-ten at Yamashita-cho 80 · 130 Yamashita-cho, Naka-ku, Yokohama 231-0023 (山下町130)
In storeShips onlineHours: Goku Chaso shop: weekdays 10:30–19:30, Sat/Sun/holidays 10:00–19:30 (a few irregular Tuesdays closed); Goku 1-go-ten: every day 10:30–19:00, closed Wednesdays· 14 pricesThe Chinese tea specialist of Chinatown, born there in 1981, with two shops: Goku 1-go-ten at Yamashita-cho 80, a minute from Motomachi-Chukagai station, and Goku Chaso at Yamashita-cho 130, whose first floor sells about 100 teas and whose second floor is a tea house with some 40 of them on the menu. The online shop sells the same leaf in small packs: Pingshui gunpowder at ¥555 for 50 g, a Zhengshan Xiaozhong and a Yunnan black at ¥510 for 70 g, a special-grade Tieguanyin and a special Keemun at ¥1,010 the tin, Hangzhou Longjing at ¥1,020 for 20 g, a winter 2025 Dong Ding at ¥1,615 for 60 g, Oriental Beauty at ¥1,280 for 30 g and Zhengyan Da Hong Pao at ¥615 the 8 g sachet. Free shipping within Japan from ¥8,000.
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Kawamotoya Chaho (川本屋茶舗)
Isezakicho, Naka-ku · 6-146 Isezakicho, Naka-ku, Yokohama 231-0045 (伊勢佐木町6-146)
In storeShips onlineHours: Closed Sundays· 6 pricesA Japanese tea and katsuobushi merchant at 6-146 Isezakicho, three minutes from Koganecho or Bandobashi stations, run by the fifth generation of a family that took the Kawamotoya name in 1897 and opened this shop in 1910. The shelf is house tea rather than famous gardens: a house-roasted hojicha at ¥918 for 70 g and the same roast in 15 tea bags at ¥1,404, a Shizuoka genmaicha with black soybean and matcha at ¥918 for 200 g, konacha of the kind sushi shops pour at ¥1,620 for 200 g, cold-brew fukamushi sencha bags from Kakegawa at ¥1,296 the 25, and a Japanese black tea from the Benifuki cultivar at ¥1,080 for 70 g. The same counter sells bonito flakes, nori and the shop's own matcha pound cakes; phone orders are taken and online orders ship free from ¥6,480.
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MITSUTEA
Ishikawacho, Naka-ku (1 min from JR Ishikawacho station) · Maison Libre 1F, 2-69 Ishikawacho, Naka-ku, Yokohama 231-0868 (石川町2-69)
In storeShips onlineHours: Weekdays 12:00–17:00; Sat/Sun/holidays 11:00–18:00; closed Mondays· 5 pricesA Ceylon-only shop on the ground floor of Maison Libre, 2-69 Ishikawacho, a minute from JR Ishikawacho station, run by Mitsuyo Nakae, who trained at a Sri Lankan tea garden and lived in the island's seven tea regions before opening in 2002. About twenty Sri Lankan teas are in stock at any time, every one from a named estate and none of them flavoured: an 851 Nuwara Eliya BOPF from Pedro Estate at ¥1,512 for 70 g, an 852 Dimbula BOP from Somerset Estate at the same price, an 849 Kandy FBOP from Doteloya Valley and an 824 Ruhuna OP from Pothotuwa at ¥1,512 for 50 and 45 g, and a 2026 quality-season Uva Pekoe from Aislaby Estate at ¥1,620 for 50 g. A paid tasting of seven teas, one per region, runs in the shop from noon.
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Genhoko (源豊江)
Chinatown (Yamashita-cho), Naka-ku · 95-2 Yamashita-cho, Naka-ku, Yokohama (山下町95-2)
In storeShips onlineHours: 10:30–18:00; closed Wednesdays and the second Thursday of the month· 6 pricesA Chinatown grocery at Yamashita-cho 95-2, in the family since 1949 and now in its third generation, that sells seasonings, dim sum and dried goods with a shelf of Chinese and Taiwanese tea at the lowest prices on this page: Keemun black at ¥480 for 80 g, an 80 g bag of jasmine tea and an 80 g bag of pu-erh at the same ¥480, a Taiwanese jasmine from Jiushun Mingcha at ¥920 for 70 g, a heavily roasted black oolong at ¥720 for 150 g and a premium Taiwanese Dong Ding at ¥1,350 for 80 g. Online orders ship free from ¥7,500.
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