Every unblended matcha on Aiya’s own shop, read from its product pages on 30 August 2026.
Aiya’s 30 gram tin is the first thing on its matcha shelf and, in Aiya’s own words, “one of Aiya’s most popular products”. Per gram it is also the second-dearest matcha Aiya sells. Only its organic twin costs more.
Aiya sells the 30 g tin and the 100 g bag as one product in two sizes — same SKU stem (03-002.03 and 03-002.10), same description word for word, same 2 g serving — and the bag costs 40% less per gram.
| If you want | Buy | Price | Per gram | Per bowl |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| To drink it straight, every day | Ceremonial Matcha, 100 g bag | $70.40 | $0.70 | $1.41 |
| To try it first | Ceremonial Matcha, 30 g tin | $35.00 | $1.17 | $2.33 |
| Lattes, smoothies, baking | Culinary Grade Matcha, 100 g bag | $31.20 | $0.31 | $0.62 |
| Certified organic, drunk straight | Organic Ceremonial, 100 g bag | $92.20 | $0.92 | $1.84 |
A bowl from the tin costs $2.33 and a bowl from the bag costs $1.41. Aiya’s own product data marked all seven of the matcha below as in stock on the day we read them.
What a gram costs at Aiya
Aiya sells seven unblended matcha. Here is all of them.
| Matcha | Grade | Size | Price | Per gram | Per bowl |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Culinary Grade | culinary | 100 g | $31.20 | $0.31 | $0.62 |
| Organic Culinary Grade | culinary | 100 g | $38.60 | $0.39 | $0.77 |
| Organic Culinary Grade | culinary | 50 g | $25.20 | $0.50 | $1.01 |
| Ceremonial | ceremonial | 100 g | $70.40 | $0.70 | $1.41 |
| Organic Ceremonial | ceremonial | 100 g | $92.20 | $0.92 | $1.84 |
| Ceremonial | ceremonial | 30 g | $35.00 | $1.17 | $2.33 |
| Organic Ceremonial | ceremonial | 30 g | $40.60 | $1.35 | $2.71 |
The two 30 g tins are the two most expensive things on this list, per gram.
Aiya’s shelf holds eighteen products. Seven are matcha with nothing added and a weight on the page, so those are the seven a gram can be compared across. The rest are sweetened blends, latte pods and MATCHA+ powders — plus one that sits between: Matcha To Go Sticks, $24.60 for 40 g, which looks like $0.62 a gram until you read that Aiya blends that matcha with dietary fibre, so the 40 g in the box is not 40 g of tea.
The tin and the bag are the same tea
Aiya files both under the same shelf and gives them the same description, the same tasting notes and the same suggested use. The only difference is how much is inside.
| 30 g tin | 100 g bag | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $35.00 | $70.40 |
| Per gram | $1.17 | $0.70 |
| Per bowl | $2.33 | $1.41 |
| A bowl a day, for a year | $852 | $514 |
The bag holds three and a third times as much tea and costs just over twice as much money. Drinking the tin instead of the bag costs $338 a year.
The same holds for the organic version: the 30 g tin is $1.35 a gram and the 100 g bag is $0.92, a saving of 32%. And for the organic culinary: $0.50 a gram at 50 g, $0.39 at 100 g, a saving of 23%.
This is not unique to Aiya — the small tin is the dear way to buy at Rocky’s too, where stepping up a size saves between 7% and 23%. At Aiya the same step saves between 23% and 40%.
For lattes, buy the culinary bag
Aiya’s Culinary Grade is a different product, blended for milk drinks and baking rather than for whisking on its own. At $0.31 a gram it is less than half what the ceremonial bag costs, comparing the two 100 g bags.
Aiya blends the culinary grade for milk drinks and baking, and prices the ceremonial grade for whisking on its own. If a latte is what you are making, the cheaper one is the one built for it.
What to buy
Buy the Ceremonial Matcha 100 g bag, $70.40 if you drink matcha straight. At $1.41 a bowl it is the cheapest way to buy Aiya’s ceremonial grade from Aiya, and it is the same tea as the tin.
Buy the 30 g tin, $35.00 only to find out whether you like it. $35 to try something is reasonable. Buying it again is not: two tins cost $70 and hold 60 g, while the bag costs $70.40 and holds 100 g.
Buy the Culinary Grade 100 g bag, $31.20 for lattes. It costs $0.62 a bowl, and it is what Aiya blended for the job.
Pay the organic premium only if certification matters to you. Organic costs 31% more than conventional in the 100 g ceremonial bag, and Aiya’s own descriptions of the two teas differ in tasting notes, not in grade.
Questions people ask
Is Aiya matcha from Japan?
Yes. Aiya is headquartered in Nishio, in Aichi Prefecture, and says on its own site that it has been family-owned since 1888 and is now run by the fifth generation of the Sugita family.
Is Aiya matcha high quality?
Aiya sells two grades of unblended matcha and is explicit about which is which: ceremonial “for traditional hot tea” and culinary “specially blended for baking and culinary purposes”. That is more useful than the label itself, which is not a regulated term — but here it does line up with the price, which is not always the case.
Where can I buy Aiya matcha?
From Aiya’s own shop, which is where every price on this page comes from. Aiya is also a wholesale producer, so the same tins turn up at grocery chains and on marketplaces — on the day we looked, Google was showing Aiya at Whole Foods, Sprouts, Walmart and Amazon at prices from $13.29 to $45.99.
Those listings rarely tell you the size, so the headline price tells you nothing. Use the two numbers above as your yardstick: Aiya’s own tin is $1.17 a gram and its bag is $0.70. Work out the price per gram of whatever you are looking at. Under $0.70 and it beats buying direct; over $1.17 and it is worse than the tin. One listing that day priced itself at $1.40 a gram, which is a 30 g tin for about $7 more than Aiya charges for it. The same yardstick, applied to twelve shops at once, is in our matcha brands comparison.
What is the difference between the tin and the bag?
The amount. Aiya’s product pages give them the same description, the same tasting notes and the same suggested use.
Is the organic worth it?
It costs 31% more per gram in the 100 g ceremonial size. Aiya describes the organic as “light and smooth with a pleasant vegetal aftertaste” and the conventional as having “a mild, natural sweetness” — a difference in character, not a claim that one is better.
Seven unblended matcha with a stated net weight, read from Aiya America’s own product pages on 30 August 2026. Aiya displays those prices as including California sales tax. All seven were in stock that day. Prices come from each page’s own product data. Per-bowl figures use 2 g, which is what Aiya’s own serving counts work out at — 15 servings in the 30 g tin, 50 in the 100 g bag. Prices and stock change; the figures above are what the shop showed on that day.
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