This is Horaido home page.Horaido is the tea shop in Kyoto Japan.

On Saturday, May 23, 2026,

we will be opening from around 2:00 PM due to a tea ceremony commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of Kenchu, founder of the Yabunouchi school of Old style tea ceremony.

We appreciate your understanding.

Our regular holidays

■We close days at white letters.

Our business hour is,
from 10:30 to 19:00

On the Current State of Japanese Tea

Today, I'd like to inform you about the current state of Japanese tea, particularly Uji tea. The global matcha boom that began two years ago is still continuing. This year, we've also seen a boom in sencha, gyokuro, and bancha. As a result, since last fall, non-tea industry investors have entered the Japanese tea sales market, resulting in continued shortages, especially of matcha. We only refer to covered-grown tencha that has been ground with a stone mill as matcha, and we are struggling with the lack of legal restrictions prohibiting the use of other terms. Since last fall, the focus has been on lower-grade sencha, senryu-style tea, and even Kyoto bancha tea, which are not covered and are used as raw materials for processed matcha. Increasingly, businesses are crushing these raw materials in grinders and selling them as "matcha." As a result, leaf teas other than matcha are in short supply, and trading prices have risen compared to this year's harvest. We only revised our prices in January of this year, and would like to maintain our current prices as much as possible, but we have been forced to raise prices again, mainly for bancha varieties (Kyoto bancha, roasted tea, Gankin, Horaicha, konacha, and Shin). The situation regarding matcha, gyokuro, and sencha is also uncertain. We will maintain our current prices for the rest of this year, but will be forced to revise our prices in January of next year. We appreciate your understanding.

This is Horaido home page. Horaido is the tea shop in Kyoto Japan since 1803. We have fine Ujicha which is the green tea made in Kyoto prefecture, and tea utensils in order to make tea delicious. If you were interested in Japanese green tea, please look our site. Depending on the timing, you may be kept waiting for a long time. Please arrive with plenty of time to spare. We will serve customers on a first-come, first-served basis. Please understand that you may have to wait a long time depending on the circumstances. We are very grateful that many customers visited our store in April. However, we apologize for the continued situation where we have not been able to provide sufficient explanations. We have also now reached a point where we are almost out of matcha. In general, we are limiting sales to per person. We appreciate your understanding. Changes to Matcha Sales Quantity Limits We now have some spare matcha in stock. We will be relaxing the quantity limit per customer. If you need it for a tea ceremony, we will accommodate your request. Thank you for your understanding.		How about a cup of tea? On Saturday, May 23, 2026, we will be opening from around 2:00 PM due to a tea ceremony commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of Kenchu, founder of the Yabunouchi school of Old style tea ceremony. We appreciate your understanding. Our regular holidays ■We close days at white letters. Our business hour is, from 10:30 to 19:00 On the Current State of Japanese Tea Today, I'd like to inform you about the current state of Japanese tea, particularly Uji tea. The global matcha boom that began two years ago is still continuing. This year, we've also seen a boom in sencha, gyokuro, and bancha. As a result, since last fall, non-tea industry investors have entered the Japanese tea sales market, resulting in continued shortages, especially of matcha. We only refer to covered-grown tencha that has been ground with a stone mill as matcha, and we are struggling with the lack of legal restrictions prohibiting the use of other terms. Since last fall, the focus has been on lower-grade sencha, senryu-style tea, and even Kyoto bancha tea, which are not covered and are used as raw materials for processed matcha. Increasingly, businesses are crushing these raw materials in grinders and selling them as "matcha." As a result, leaf teas other than matcha are in short supply, and trading prices have risen compared to this year's harvest. We only revised our prices in January of this year, and would like to maintain our current prices as much as possible, but we have been forced to raise prices again, mainly for bancha varieties (Kyoto bancha, roasted tea, Gankin, Horaicha, konacha, and Shin). The situation regarding matcha, gyokuro, and sencha is also uncertain. We will maintain our current prices for the rest of this year, but will be forced to revise our prices in January of next year. We appreciate your understanding.
We are TAX FREE shop We will be suspending overseas shipments until mid-May. The reason is that the store is extremely busy and we are in a situation where we cannot handle any more work. Also, with the global boom in Japanese tea, there is a tea shortage. Furthermore, the new tea production season is just around the corner, and if we do not concentrate on purchasing now, we will not be able to secure tea for the next year. These are the reasons. We ask for your understanding.
	The tea report in 2017 is available. The harvest in 2017 is in good quality. But lower grade to be expensive for the prioce
Our data Address and Phone Teramachi Shijo agaru Nakagyo-ku Kyoto Japan Tel 81 +75- 221-1215 Fax 81 +75- 213-2502 E-mail Due to the high volume of spam, our email service is currently suspended. Open daily from 10:30a.m. to 7:00p.m. Shop holidays are such as follow, All of 2nd, 7th, 12th,17th, 22nd and 27th every month (in addition to 1-3 Jan. and 1 week in mid of Sep.)