Japan Residential Proxies

Consumer connections in Japan, from the daily supplier snapshot.

  • 361.5K IPs reported for Japan
  • 271 Cities
  • 46 States / regions

Supplier counts for Japan as of 9 Nov 2026, 09:43 UTC: reported pool sizes, not capacity reserved for you.

Residential in Japan is billed per GB at the same rates as every country: $1.66/GB at 3 GB ($4.99 a month), down to $0.39/GB at 5 TB ($1,995.00 a month).

Why use a residential IP in Japan?

Japanese commerce runs on domestic platforms. Rakuten Ichiba and Yahoo! Shopping price around point campaigns and time-boxed sales, Amazon.co.jp quotes shipping and Prime eligibility against a Japanese address, and Kakaku.com is a comparison engine many electronics shoppers consult. Yahoo! JAPAN remains a distinct search and portal property with its own ad inventory. A Japanese residential IP loads these services from a consumer connection in Japan. That settles where the request comes from and nothing more: point balances, coupons and Prime eligibility attach to an account and a delivery address, and the language you get follows browser and site settings.

Japan at a glance

  • Currency: Japanese yen (JPY)
  • Languages: Japanese; English on some travel and export storefronts
  • Search: google.co.jp; Bing; Yahoo! JAPAN
  • Time zone: UTC+9
  • Checkout: Konbini payment, PayPay, cards, Rakuten Pay

Targeting Japan

For Japan, add country, city and session settings to the username:

# Anywhere in Japan
curl -x http://USER-country-jp:PASS@gw-residential.node4.io:8082 https://api.ipify.org

# One exit in Tokyo, 13, held
curl -x http://USER-country-jp-state-13-city-tokyo-session-229901:PASS@gw-residential.node4.io:8082 https://ipinfo.io/country

If the city you name has no exits in Japan, the request fails rather than leaving from another location.

Cities with coverage in Japan

271 cities are targetable in Japan. Test depth before sizing a job.

  • Tokyo, 13 -state-13-city-tokyo
  • Yokohama, 14 -state-14-city-yokohama
  • Osaka, 27 -state-27-city-osaka
  • Nagoya, 23 -state-23-city-nagoya
  • Sapporo, 01 -state-01-city-sapporo
  • Fukuoka, 40 -state-40-city-fukuoka
  • Kobe, 28 -state-28-city-kobe
  • Kawasaki, 14 -state-14-city-kawasaki
  • Kyoto, 26 -state-26-city-kyoto
  • Hiroshima, 34 -state-34-city-hiroshima
  • Sendai, 04 -state-04-city-sendai
  • Yanagimachi, 02 -state-02-city-yanagimachi

Examples to test from Japan

Retail pricing teams poll Rakuten Ichiba, Amazon.co.jp, Yahoo! Shopping and Kakaku.com to reconstruct the effective price after points and coupons, which is the figure that decides which offer is cheaper. Property data comes from SUUMO and LIFULL HOME'S. SERP tracking covers both google.co.jp and Yahoo! JAPAN, whose ad layouts and modules differ even when organic results overlap; results also vary with the query's script and the account state. Localization QA checks Japanese rendering, furigana fields, full-width input handling, konbini and PayPay options at checkout, and Japanese address ordering.

Japan: coverage and targeting notes

Greater Tokyo is the largest market, with Osaka and the wider Kansai region the other pole, then Nagoya, Fukuoka and Sapporo. Most fixed broadband is fiber, much of it on NTT's network resold by providers such as OCN, plus au Hikari, SoftBank Hikari and NURO, with NTT Docomo, au, SoftBank and Rakuten Mobile on mobile; that describes Japanese connectivity, not the pool. Use country-level targeting when a test only needs a Japanese network origin, such as a national retailer's list price. Select a city when the result depends on it, such as regional delivery windows or a Kansai-specific campaign, once you have confirmed the city has depth.

Working with Japan exits

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