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Japanese IPs from real homes and SIM cards
Japanese proxies on real home connections and the NTT docomo, au, SoftBank and Rakuten Mobile networks. Our Japan proxies reach Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka and 234 cities and districts in all 47 prefectures, with rotating or sticky sessions, or a fixed static IP.
Pay per GB, not per IP. Unused bandwidth rolls over.
Choose your Japan proxy type
Four ways to get a Japanese IP
Rotating residential
Japan residential proxy IPs on home fibre and cable. Best for scraping, price monitoring and SERP tracking on Google.co.jp and Yahoo! JAPAN.
- Prefecture, city, postal code, ISP and ASN targeting
- New IP per request or sticky sessions
- OS fingerprint targeting (Windows, macOS, Linux, Android)
Rotating mobile
Japan mobile proxy IPs on all four national networks. Best for social media, app testing and the strictest anti-bot systems.
- Prefecture, city, postal code, carrier and ASN targeting
- OS fingerprint targeting
- Rotate on demand or keep a sticky session
Rotating datacenter
Fast, low-cost Japanese datacenter IPs. Best for high-volume jobs on lightly protected sites.
- Japan country-level targeting
- New IP per request or sticky sessions
- Lowest cost per GB for bulk traffic
- Plans from 40 GB for $25
Static residential
A fixed Japanese residential IP that stays yours. Best for account management and long-running logins.
- The same Japanese IP all month
- Traffic included (100 GB fair-use soft cap per IP)
- Japan country-level targeting
- From $3.50 for a single IP
Japan at a glance
Why a local IP changes what you see
Rankings on Google.co.jp and Yahoo! JAPAN, prices on Rakuten Ichiba, Amazon.co.jp and Kakaku.com, listings on Mercari and SUUMO, and the ads served to Japanese users all depend on where the request comes from. A US or Singapore IP often gets a different page, a different language or no page at all.
Japanese sites also check the network. On well-protected sites, data centre traffic is flagged as a bot straight away, while a docomo SIM or an NTT fibre line looks like an ordinary Japanese customer, because it is one.
| Fact | Figure | Why it matters for proxy work |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 122.68 million (1 August 2026, provisional) | A large, city-heavy market, so prefecture and city targeting separates Tokyo results from Osaka or Sapporo. |
| Prefectures | 47: Tokyo, Hokkaido, Osaka, Kyoto and 43 others | All 47 are targetable, and local results, delivery options and store stock differ between them. |
| Time zone | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9), no daylight saving | One time zone for the whole country, so scheduled checks line up with local business hours all year. |
| Currency | Japanese yen (JPY), issued by the Bank of Japan | Japanese shops price in yen, and only a Japanese IP shows local prices and offers reliably. |
| Online shopping | Consumer e-commerce worth ¥26.1 trillion in 2024 | A big, growing online market with frequent sales events, which is what price monitoring is for. |
| Smartphones | 91.8% of households own one (August 2025) | Mobile is how most Japanese users get online, so mobile IPs blend in with normal traffic. |
| Mobile networks | NTT docomo, KDDI (au), SoftBank, Rakuten Mobile; 42.77 million MVNO contracts (March 2026) | All four networks and several large MVNOs are on ours, so mobile traffic looks like an ordinary local subscriber. |
Sources: Statistics Bureau of Japan (population estimates, August 2026); National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Japan Standard Time); Bank of Japan (banknotes); Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (E-Commerce Market Survey, FY2024); Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (Communications Usage Trend Survey 2025; quarterly telecom contract data, March 2026).
What our Japanese proxy coverage actually reaches
Read from the live API, not a brochure
Most providers list Japan as a single checkbox. Here you can run a proxy Japan-wide or pin a session to the prefecture, city and network your target cares about, using today’s targeting from the same API our dashboard uses.
All 47 prefectures
Every prefecture from Hokkaido to Okinawa can be targeted on its own, the smaller ones such as Tottori, Shimane and Saga included.
234 targetable cities and districts
Coverage goes well beyond Tokyo and Osaka, to regional capitals, commuter cities and individual Tokyo wards and neighbourhoods such as Shinjuku, Roppongi, Nerima and Edogawa. Here are 72 of them:
Mobile carriers
All four Japanese mobile networks are covered, so no major network is missing. Sub-brands run on their parent’s network: ahamo on docomo, UQ mobile and povo on au, Y!mobile and LINEMO on SoftBank. The other four are established MVNOs that run on those same networks and appear as separate entries in our pool.
Fixed-line ISPs
More than 35 Japanese networks can be targeted by name. The national names are covered: NTT Communications (now NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS), NTT PC Communications, KDDI’s au one net, SoftBank, and FLET’S-era ISPs such as BIGLOBE, So-net (Sony’s ISP, which also runs NURO Hikari), ASAHI Net, IIJ and FreeBit, plus ARTERIA Networks. Power-company fibre covers the regions: OPTAGE (eo Hikari) in Kansai, Chubu Telecommunications (commufa) in the Tokai area, Enecom in Chugoku, STNet (Pikara) in Shikoku and QTnet (BBIQ) in Kyushu. Cable operators fill in the rest, including its communications along Tokyu lines, Starcat in Nagoya, ZTV in Mie, Oita Cable Telecom and Toyohashi Cable Network, with Starlink satellite on top.
Why the long tail matters. Anti-bot systems look at which network a request comes from, and a pool built on two or three national ISPs is easy to rate-limit. Mixing NTT fibre in Tokyo with power-company fibre in Kyushu and a cable line in Nagoya makes traffic look like ordinary Japanese households.
What teams use Japanese proxies for
Common workloads on our Japanese network
E-commerce price monitoring
Track prices, points offers and stock on Rakuten Ichiba, Amazon.co.jp and Kakaku.com exactly as Japanese shoppers see them, in yen.
SEO & SERP tracking
Check rankings, local packs and ads on Google.co.jp and Yahoo! JAPAN from Tokyo, Osaka or Fukuoka, where local results differ from city to city.
Ad verification & localisation QA
Confirm campaigns aimed at Japan run on the placements you paid for, and that Japanese landing pages, fonts and checkout flows render correctly for local users.
Marketplace & resale research
Monitor listings, sold prices and seller activity on Mercari and Yahoo! Auctions across prefectures, without CAPTCHAs skewing the sample.
Property, travel & reviews
Collect rental and sale listings from SUUMO, hotel rates from Jalan and restaurant ratings from Tabelog, city by city.
AI & Japanese-language data
Gather public Japanese-language text, product data and reviews for training and evaluation datasets, spread across real local networks.
Japan proxy pricing
Rotating residential — all Japanese targeting included
Prices are the same for Japan as everywhere else. Prefecture, city, postal code, ISP, ASN and OS fingerprint targeting cost nothing extra, and unused bandwidth rolls over.
| Plan | Data | Price per GB | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay As You Go | 1 GB | $3.50 | Buy | |
| Starter | 7 GB | $20 | Buy | |
| Hobby | 28 GB | $75 | Buy | |
| Startup | 60 GB | $150 | Buy | |
| Business | 135 GB | $300 | Buy | |
| Company — best value | 315 GB | $625 | Buy | |
| Corporation | 500 GB | $875 | Buy | |
| Enterprise | 1,000 GB | $1,500 | Buy | |
| Custom | 5 TB+ | From $0.75 | — | Contact us |
Discounted prices use code EMPIRE50 (limited time, rotating residential and mobile only). Mobile and datacenter plans are on the full pricing page.
Static residential IPs in Japan
Japan is one of the few countries where we sell static residential proxies. You pay per IP per month instead of per GB, traffic included.
| Static residential | IPs | Price per IP / month | Traffic | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single IP | 1 | $3.50 | Included, 100 GB fair-use cap per IP | Buy |
| Volume — lowest price | 2,000 | $2.00 | Included, 100 GB fair-use cap per IP | Buy |
Volume steps in between are listed on the static residential proxies page.
Residential, mobile, datacenter or static: which Japanese proxy do you need?
Match the proxy to the job
| Rotating residential | Rotating mobile | Rotating datacenter | Static residential | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IP source | Japanese home fibre and cable | docomo, au, SoftBank, Rakuten Mobile and MVNOs | Japanese data centres | Fixed Japanese residential IP |
| IP changes | Per request, or sticky sessions | On demand, or sticky sessions | Per request, or sticky sessions | Never: the same IP all month |
| Targeting | Country, prefecture, city, postal code, ISP, ASN, OS fingerprint | Country, prefecture, city, postal code, carrier, ASN, OS fingerprint | Country | Country |
| Detection risk | Low: looks like a real household | Lowest: shared by thousands of subscribers | Higher: easy to spot on protected sites | Low: a residential IP with a steady history |
| Price | From $1.50/GB | From $2.00/GB | From $0.35/GB | From $2.00/IP a month |
| Best for | Scraping, price and SERP monitoring | Social media, app testing, strict anti-bot targets | Bulk jobs on lightly protected sites | Account management and logins |
Free Japan proxy lists vs paid Japanese proxies
Why free lists rarely work on Japanese sites
A free Japan web proxy or a list of free Japan proxy servers is easy to find, but most entries are open servers already abused by thousands of users. They go offline within hours and are blacklisted by the Japanese sites you want to reach.
| Free Japan proxy lists | ProxyEmpire Japanese proxies | |
|---|---|---|
| IP source | Open or hijacked servers, mostly data centres | Real Japanese homes and docomo, au, SoftBank and Rakuten Mobile SIM cards |
| Uptime | Minutes to hours before an IP disappears | Always-on pool, with rotating, sticky or static IPs |
| Blocks | Usually blacklisted on major Japanese sites | Looks like an ordinary local visitor |
| Targeting | Country at best | Prefecture, city, postal code, ISP, ASN and OS fingerprint |
| Security | Unknown operator can log or alter your traffic | Authenticated access over HTTP(S) or SOCKS5 |
| Cost | Free | From $1.50/GB, with a $1.97 trial |
Get a Japanese IP in three steps
From sign-up to first request in minutes
- Start the $1.97 trialCreate an account in the ProxyEmpire dashboard and top up when you need more.
- Choose JapanSet the country to Japan, then narrow by prefecture, city, postal code, ISP or carrier if you need to.
- Plug it into your toolCopy the endpoint into your scraper, rank tracker, browser or anti-detect profile over HTTP(S) or SOCKS5.
Japan proxy FAQ
Straight answers
What is a Japanese proxy server (JP proxy)?
A Japan proxy server, or JP proxy, gives you a Japanese IP address so websites treat you as a local visitor. A residential proxy in Japan goes further: it routes traffic through a real household’s connection on a network like NTT fibre or So-net, not a data centre.
Can I target specific Japanese cities, prefectures or ISPs?
Yes. You can target all 47 prefectures, 234 cities and districts, and more than 35 ISPs and networks, from NTT and KDDI to regional power-company fibre and cable. Residential and mobile also support postal code, ASN and OS fingerprint targeting. Datacenter and static are country-level.
Do you offer Japan mobile proxies?
Yes, on all four national networks: NTT docomo, au, SoftBank and Rakuten Mobile, plus MVNOs such as IIJmio and mineo. A Japan mobile proxy uses IPs shared by many real subscribers, which makes it among the hardest traffic for websites to block.
Do you have Japanese datacenter proxies?
Yes. Rotating datacenter proxies with Japanese IPs start at $25 for 40 GB, down to $0.35/GB on larger plans. They are country-level and suit high-volume work on lightly protected sites.
Do you sell static residential IPs in Japan?
Yes. You get a dedicated Japanese residential IP that stays the same all month, from $3.50 for one IP down to $2.00 per IP at 2,000 IPs, traffic included under a 100 GB fair-use cap.
How much do Japan proxies cost?
Rotating residential starts at $1.50/GB on larger plans, rotating mobile at $2.00/GB and rotating datacenter at $0.35/GB. Static residential runs $3.50 for one IP down to $2.00 per IP a month. Japanese targeting is free, and you can start with a $1.97 trial.
Can I keep the same Japanese IP?
Yes. Rotating residential, mobile and datacenter all support sticky sessions, which hold the same Japanese IP across requests. For a permanently fixed IP, use static residential.
Which protocols and tools are supported?
HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5. The proxies work with any scraper, rank tracker, headless browser, anti-detect browser or HTTP library, and there is no limit on concurrent sessions.
Is a free Japan web proxy good enough?
For a one-off look at a page, sometimes. For regular work, no: free proxies are slow, shared, often blocked, and you cannot choose the city or network. A paid proxy in Japan gives you clean, authenticated IPs.
Is using a proxy legal in Japan?
Proxies themselves are legal in Japan. What matters is how you use them: respect each site’s terms of service, and follow the Act on the Protection of Personal Information when collecting personal data.
Proxies in Japan’s neighbouring countries
Cover East Asia from one account
The same account, bandwidth and targeting work across East Asia, so you can compare prices, rankings and ads across borders without changing providers.
Elsewhere in the region: Singapore (static IPs available) and Australia (static IPs available) — or browse all locations. Comparing providers? Read our guide to the best Japan proxy services.
Start browsing from Japan today
Real Japanese home, mobile and static IPs, with prefecture, city and ISP targeting included, bandwidth that rolls over and 24/7 support from real people. Try it for $1.97.
