Tamu is a town of Kuki in the Kabaw Valley in the Sagaing Region in north-west Myanmar near the border with the eastern Indian state of Manipur.

It is a principal town of the Kabaw Valley and the seat of administration for the Tamu Township.

Opposite the Indian Kuki town of Moreh, it is home to an official border trade posts with India, which opened on 12 April 2005.

[3] Tamu is something of a transport hub for cross-border traffic to India, being just across the border from Moreh.

India's foreign minister met with Myanmar's construction minister in Delhi on 22 February 2012, and spoke about opening a highway between Moreh, in India, and the Myanmar-Thai border near Mae Sot.