Goku Chaso (悟空茶荘)

Goku describes itself as born in Yokohama Chinatown in 1981, and it now runs two shops a few blocks apart on Yamashita-cho. Goku 1-go-ten, at number 80, is a minute from Motomachi-Chukagai station: about 100 teas, a wall of teaware, shaped teas for gifts and, since October 2026, hot take-out tea at ¥450 a cup. Goku Chaso, at number 130, opened on 1 December 2001 and is the bigger house: the ground floor is the shop, with roughly 100 teas and the books, cups and gaiwans to go with them.

The second floor of Goku Chaso is a tea house with about 40 Chinese teas on the menu, desserts and a food menu that changes with the season, and it hosts the house's Salon de Live evenings of music and Chinese culture, short Chinese tea courses and group bookings for lunch or afternoon tea. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights the same floor becomes Goku Bar. The ground-floor shop opens at 10:30 on weekdays and at 10:00 on weekends and holidays, and closes four irregular Tuesdays a year.

The online shop sells the same leaf in packs sized for tasting, with prices that include tax: Pingshui gunpowder at ¥555 for 50 g, Zhengshan Xiaozhong and a Yunnan black at ¥510 for 70 g, Bai Mu Dan at ¥565 for 30 g, a special-grade Tieguanyin and a special Keemun at ¥1,010 the tin, Hangzhou Longjing and a Baihao Yinzhen at ¥1,020, a Dong Ting Bi Luo Chun at ¥1,225, Oriental Beauty at ¥1,280 for 30 g, an aged ripe pu-erh at ¥1,530 for 50 g and a winter 2025 Dong Ding at ¥1,615 for 60 g. Orders ship nationwide, free from ¥8,000.