Roaster Profile
SAZA Coffee
サザコーヒー
茨城（ひたちなか本店）・東京ほか
A long-established specialty house founded in Ibaraki in 1969. Owns its own farm in Colombia, managing everything from cultivation to roasting, and is famous for its eye for Blue Mountain and rare lots.
Roast
Wide range
Online sales
Yes
Origins
5 origins
Tags
Origins carried
Editorial
How to read this roaster
Saza Coffee, founded in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki in 1969, is that rare long-established house still running hard on the specialty road. It owns its own farm in Colombia — the Saza Coffee Farm — managing cultivation, harvest, processing, export, roasting and retail end to end: a vertical integration exceptional among Japanese coffee companies.
The Saza Coffee Farm
The Colombian farm purchased in 1996 is Saza’s calling card. At around 1,700m it grows Caturra, Catuaí and Castillo. Controlling the chain from cultivation to the drinker’s cup is a major advantage in both price and quality.
An eye for the rare names
Saza is an old house that can continuously carry coffee requiring real connoisseurship — Jamaica Blue Mountain, Panama Gesha, rare micro lots. As one of the few places in Japan where Blue Mountain No.1 is reliably on the shelf, it is a regular choice for gifts and special occasions.
The Ibaraki flagship and Tokyo shops
The Hitachinaka flagship, with its attached roastery, is a pilgrimage site for coffee fans. There is also a shop inside Tokyo Station — proper specialty you can grab on a commute or business trip.
Recommended brewing
Blue Mountain: low-temperature nel drip (85–88°C). Gesha: hot paper drip (94–95°C). The estate Colombia is roasted to medium, so V60 at 1:15 and 92°C is the standard balance.
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Opens the official online shop via Google. Stock and prices on the official site take precedence.
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