AOBAKI

Ceremonial matcha and hojicha from Matsushita Tea Garden in Kakegawa, Shizuoka. Grown and stone-milled in Japan. Packed and shipped from Lānaʻi, Hawaiʻi.

Wholesale for cafés See the tea

One garden. One harvest.

Everything Aobaki sells comes from a single family farm near Mt. Fuji. We buy the garden’s highest grade in small lots, several times a year, so what reaches you is this season’s tea.

Garden: Matsushita Tea GardenKakegawa, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Harvest: First flush onlyIchibancha: the sweetest, most umami-rich picking of the year
Cultivars: Saemidori and SamidoriBoth bred specifically for matcha
Grind: About 9 microns, sifted through a 100-mesh screenSilky, vivid, and foam-friendly
Service: Usucha, koicha, and a latte that keeps its color
Keep it: Sealed, refrigerated, out of the light

The line

Three teas, one source. Sizes for the counter and for the café.

Ceremonial Matcha AAA

The garden’s top grade. For usucha and koicha, and for the matcha latte a café is judged by.

80 g pouch1 kg bag

Culinary Matcha

The everyday grade from the same garden. For drinking, cooking, and baking, where the tea has to carry milk and sugar.

80 g pouch

Hojicha Powder

Roasted green tea, milled fine. Toasty, with less caffeine than matcha. The base of a hojicha latte.

1 kg bag

“Among the matcha produced at Matsushita Tea Garden, this is our highest-grade product. Our farm, blessed with a rich natural environment, practices soil cultivation that nurtures the chain of life.”
Matsushita Tea Garden, Kakegawa

For cafés, tea rooms, and shops

One kilogram is roughly 500 traditional servings, or hundreds of lattes. We ship from Hawaiʻi to the mainland by USPS Priority Mail. Wholesale pricing and samples on request.

808-563-5007Lanai City, Hawaiʻi · Hawaiʻi time is 2 to 3 hours behind the West Coast kert@aobaki.comSay who you are and what you pour; we answer personally

Coffee barsMatcha lattes, iced matcha, matcha lemonade. One bag makes hundreds of drinks.
Tea roomsGenuine ceremonial service, usucha or koicha.
BakeriesThe color and flavor hold in desserts and doughs.
RetailersPortion into your own 30 g tins, about 33 to a bag, for a high-margin shelf item. Label each tin "Product of Japan" with your own name and net weight.

Shipped from Lānaʻi

Aobaki began at Rainbow Pharmacy, an independent pharmacy in Lanai City, Hawaiʻi, where Kert Shuster, Pharm.D., started importing this matcha for his own counter and could not stop giving it to friends.

The tea is grown, processed, and milled in Shizuoka, Japan. It is packed and shipped from Lanai City, an island of about three thousand people, by a company small enough that the person who answers the phone is the person who tasted the lot.