Service
Grow. Craft. Deliver.
All in our own hands.
Service
Business
Nakamine Farm's Three Pillars
Nakamine Farm operates across three areas: farming, processing, and sales.
The ability to handle everything — from growing ume to delivering finished products — is the strength that sets us apart.
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Growing ume
Farming
Nakamine Farm cultivates ume in Kamiakitsu, Tanabe City, Wakayama.
This region is part of the "Minabe-Tanabe Ume System," recognized as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage — a land where over 400 years of traditional ume cultivation lives on.We tend our ume with care in this gifted landscape, harvesting fruit of the highest quality.
Growing our own raw materials means we can ensure quality at the source — and deliver with consistency, season after season.
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Crafting ume
Processing
The ume we harvest are processed into umeboshi and umeshu right here, in our own factory.
From salt-curing and sun-drying to seasoning — every step is handled in-house, under our own quality standards.We produce a wide range of products — honey ume, shiso-infused, white-dried, and more — with the flexibility to meet your needs.
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Delivering ume
Sales
Nakamine Farm delivers umeboshi to a wide range of partners — retailers, restaurants, and e-commerce businesses — centered around our in-house brand "Farmer's Ume," with both wholesale and direct-to-consumer sales.
On Rakuten Ichiba, we have earned over 1,200 reviews with a rating of 4.6 — a product trusted and loved by many.
We manufacture under your brand [ OEM ]
Nakamine Farm offers OEM manufacturing — crafting umeboshi under your own brand name.
Starting from our existing products, we can adjust flavor, packaging, and specifications to suit your vision.
Our fully integrated farming and processing model means stable quality and efficient turnaround. We're here to support your business from the ground up — quite literally.
Industry
Nakamine Farm's 6th Industry Model
At Nakamine Farm, we grow ume (farming), process it (manufacturing), and bring it to market (sales) — all under one roof.
This fully integrated approach is, above all else, what makes us who we are.
What the 6th Industry model makes possible
Our integrated approach isn't simply about "doing everything ourselves."
It's what allows us to offer our partners genuine peace of mind — and the flexibility to truly respond to their needs.
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Point01
Because we take full responsibility from raw material to finished product,we never compromise on quality.
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Point02
Because our orchards and factory stand side by side, we process freshly harvested ume without delay.
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Point03
Because production and sales work hand in hand, your feedback finds its way directly into our products.
Company
Our Journey
In 1989, Kazuo Nakamine — then a farmer growing ume and mikan — began crafting processed umeboshi and selling them himself.
From that small, determined beginning, Nakamine Farm has grown into what it is today:
a fully integrated 6th Industry operation, with farming, processing, and sales all under one roof.
The Beginning
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1989
Launched processed umeboshi and mail-order sales
Kazuo Nakamine, a ume and mikan farmer, begins selling processed umeboshi by mail order.
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1994
Established Nakamine Farm Co., Ltd. (Ltd.)
Founded with ¥3 million in capital. Kazuo Nakamine appointed as Representative Director.
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1998
Reorganized as Nakamine Farm Co., Ltd. (Inc.)
Capital increased to ¥10 million; restructured as a joint-stock corporation.
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2002
Chiseko Nakamine appointed as Representative Director
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2005
In-house brand "Farmer's Ume" trademarked
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2011
Headquarters relocated
Strengthening
Production
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2015
Developed "Honey Ume (3% salt)"
Pillow packaging machine introduced
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2018
Semi-automatic weighing equipment introduced
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2022
Second semi-automatic weighing unit added
Looking Ahead
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2024
New umeshu (plum wine) production facility opened
Liqueur manufacturing license obtained
Main production facility expanded
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2025
Oscillating density meter introduced
Orchard land expanded
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2026
Second warehouse now operational