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In Japan, fruit is a gift language. At Sembikiya, the 200-year-old Tokyo fruit boutique, a single Miyazaki mango is displayed in a velvet-lined wooden box the way another shop would sell a watch. This selection is what that culture looks like landed in the UK — hand-graded, single-origin, flown in weekly.
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Our most premium release — a hand-selected assortment of first-grade Japanese fruit, presented in our upgraded magnetic-close Signature Box with a printed fruit menu and an authentic Fruit Plug seal. Sold when the imports land, not before.
Each collection is built around what arrived first-grade that week — Miyazaki Taiyo-no-Tamago, Sumo Citrus, Okimi strawberries, Awa strawberries, Japanese kumquat. Exact contents vary with the shipment.
The individual selection
Sold as individual gifts. Sourced from single farms, presented as Japan presents them.
PremiumGrown to an exact weight, ripened on the branch, and shipped in a velvet-lined wooden box.
PremiumJapan's largest premium strawberry — each berry the size of a small peach, individually graded, individually wrapped.
PremiumCultivated on Shikoku and selected for honey-sweetness over size.
PremiumA seedless, bump-topped Japanese mandarin originally bred in Kumamoto and selected for maximum sweetness.
PremiumBigger and meaningfully sweeter than the supermarket kumquat — Japanese growers select for thin, candy-sweet peel and reduced acid in the flesh.
PremiumApricot-gold fruit that only appears for a few weeks in late spring.
PremiumThe Japanese cultivar runs larger, pulpier and markedly sweeter than the South American passion fruit most people know.
PremiumSnap-crisp, honey-sweet, and Japan's best-selling apple by a long way.
Why these are different
Single-farm, single-region, hand-graded. Miyazaki for mango and Okimi, Tokushima for Awa strawberries, Kumamoto for Sumo Citrus. Nothing industrial.
Velvet-lined wooden crates, individually foam-wrapped fruit, mesh protection on the branch during ripening. The packaging is part of the product.
Eaten as a course, not a snack. Served at room temperature, sliced at the table, shared as a gift. Fruit here means occasion.
Miyazaki mango season is short. Awa strawberries are shorter. Join the list to get a note the week the next harvest lands in London — no catch-up emails, no marketing drip.
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