Japan Proxy: 10 Best Japanese Proxy Providers (2026)

A Japan proxy gives you an IP address in Japan, so Japanese websites and apps treat you like a local visitor. That matters more in Japan than in most countries. Prices on Rakuten Ichiba and Amazon.co.jp, search results on Google and Yahoo! JAPAN, and the catalogues of streaming services such as TVer and ABEMA all depend on where a visitor appears to be, and several large Japanese services block or limit traffic from abroad outright — Yahoo! JAPAN, for example, has not served users in the EU and UK since April 2022.

Not every provider that sells "Japan proxies" has a deep Japanese network, though. Some publish hundreds of thousands of Japanese IPs and target down to the city and mobile carrier; others have a few thousand active addresses and country-level targeting only. We compared 17 providers on what they actually publish about Japan — IP counts, city and carrier targeting, which proxy types are available inside Japan, and price — and picked the 10 best for different buyers.

Quick picks

• Best overall: Decodo — residential, mobile, ISP and datacenter IPs in Japan, city targeting for Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, Nagoya and Kyoto, and a free trial.
• Best for enterprise: Bright Data — all four proxy types in Japan with city, ZIP, ASN and carrier targeting and the strongest compliance paperwork.
• Best for large-scale scraping: Oxylabs — the largest claimed Japanese residential pool on this list, at about 2.6 million IPs.
• Best for ISP and carrier targeting: SOAX — lists dozens of Japanese networks, from NTT and KDDI to regional cable operators, plus Rakuten Mobile.
• Best for city coverage and mobile: ProxyEmpire — 234 cities and districts in all 47 prefectures and all four Japanese mobile carriers.
• Best for static Japanese IPs: IPRoyal — ISP, datacenter and mobile IPs in Japan alongside residential traffic that never expires.

Comparison table

Prices and IP counts are as published on each provider's site in October 2026 and change often. IP counts are the vendors' own figures, measured in different ways; check the provider's pricing page before you buy.

The Japanese proxy landscape

A little background on how Japanese internet access works explains why some proxy types perform better in Japan than others.

Fixed broadband is almost all fibre, and NTT dominates. Most Japanese households connect through fibre-to-the-home lines, and NTT's companies hold more than 43% of the fixed broadband market, followed by SoftBank (about 14%), au/KDDI (about 13%) and the cable operator J:COM (nearly 8%), according to TeleGeography figures cited by Opensignal in May 2026. Below them sits a long tail of ISPs that resell NTT's "FLET'S Hikari" lines — OCN, BIGLOBE, So-net, IIJ, Asahi Net and many more — alongside Sony's NURO Hikari and regional cable and power-company networks. A good Japanese residential pool should reflect that mix. SOAX's Japan page, for example, lists more than 50 networks, from NTT, KDDI and SoftBank to regional operators such as Kurashiki Cable TV and K-Opticom.

IPv6 is common, and IPv4 addresses are often shared. Many Japanese fibre ISPs now deliver connections over IPv6 (IPoE, sold under names such as "v6 Plus" and "transix") and carry IPv4 traffic as a tunnel inside it, so several households can share one public IPv4 address. For proxy users, this means two things: a Japanese residential IPv4 address may legitimately carry traffic from more than one home, and some Japanese sites see a meaningful share of their real visitors over IPv6. Most proxy providers still sell IPv4 exits; Proxy-Seller is one of the few on this list that also sells Japanese IPv6 addresses.

Four mobile carriers, many virtual operators. NTT docomo is Japan's largest mobile network, followed by KDDI's au and SoftBank, with Rakuten Mobile as the newer fourth operator. Low-cost brands such as ahamo, povo, LINEMO, UQ mobile and Y!mobile, and virtual operators such as IIJmio and mineo, all run on those networks. Mobile carriers use carrier-grade NAT, which puts thousands of real subscribers behind each public IP. That is why Japanese mobile IPs are the hardest proxy type for a website to block.

Large Japanese sites screen foreign and datacenter traffic. Some Japanese services restrict access by region (Yahoo! JAPAN in the EU and UK; TVer, ABEMA and U-NEXT for most of their video catalogue outside Japan), and marketplaces and ticketing sites commonly flag traffic from hosting providers. In practice, datacenter IPs work for lightly protected pages and public price checks, while marketplaces, ticketing, social and streaming targets need residential, ISP or mobile IPs.

1. Decodo — Best overall

Decodo (formerly Smartproxy, based in Vilnius, Lithuania) is the most complete Japanese offer for most buyers. All four proxy types are available with Japanese IPs: rotating residential, rotating mobile, static ISP and datacenter. Its Japan page offers city targeting for Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, Nagoya and Kyoto, and names NTT Docomo, SoftBank and au by KDDI as mobile carriers. Japan has static residential (ISP) stock too — Japan is one of the locations Decodo lists for its ISP proxies, which suits long-lived accounts that need the same Japanese address for weeks.

Decodo doesn't publish a Japan-only IP count; it gives 18.3M+ IPs for Asia and 115M+ residential IPs worldwide. Residential pay-as-you-go costs $4/GB, the 3 GB monthly plan works out at $3.75/GB, and enterprise plans fall to $2/GB. Japanese mobile traffic starts at $2.25/GB at volume. A 3-day free trial with 100 MB lets you test Japanese targets first, and first purchases have a 14-day money-back option, with conditions.

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2. Bright Data — Best for enterprise

Bright Data (founded in 2014 as Luminati Networks, headquartered in Israel) sells residential, mobile, ISP and datacenter proxies with Japanese IPs and supports the most granular targeting on this list: city, state, ZIP code, ASN and mobile carrier. If you need to see what a user on a specific Japanese ISP or carrier sees — for ad verification, for example — it is the safest choice.

Its own Japan page isn't consistent about pool size: the page title claims 950,181 Japanese proxy IPs, while the body says 367,244. Either way, it is one of the larger Japanese networks. Pricing is the highest on this list before discounts: the residential list price falls to $5/GB on the $1,999/month plan, and the Japan page was advertising a 50% residential coupon in October 2026. Residential access requires KYC verification, and Bright Data holds ISO 27001, SOC 2 and SOC 3 certifications.

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3. Oxylabs — Best for large-scale scraping

Oxylabs, a Lithuanian provider founded in 2015, claims the largest Japanese residential pool we found: 2,633,211 IPs on its Japan page, with city-level figures such as 16,895 IPs in Tokyo and 1,024 in Yokohama. (Its residential product page shows a lower Japan figure of 1,496,392, so the number depends on where and when you look.) Japanese residential, mobile and dedicated datacenter proxies are available; ISP proxies in Japan aren't listed on the Japan page.

Self-service residential pricing runs from $6/GB for small amounts to $5/GB up to 20 GB, $4/GB up to 125 GB and $2.50/GB from 1 TB. Japanese mobile traffic starts at $9/GB and dedicated datacenter IPs at $8.25/month. There's no traditional trial; instead, new accounts get $5 of welcome credit, and self-service purchases are non-refundable.

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4. SOAX — Best for ISP and carrier targeting

SOAX publishes the most detailed picture of its Japanese network. Its Japan page claims 210,600 Japanese residential and mobile IPs and lists 50 cities (from Tokyo and Osaka to Kanazawa, Kagoshima and Hachioji), all 47 prefectures as regions, and more than 50 networks. Those include the large ISPs (NTT, KDDI's au one net, SoftBank, BIGLOBE, So-net, IIJ), regional cable operators, and the mobile carriers NTT Docomo and Rakuten Mobile. If you need to check how a site behaves for a specific Japanese ISP, SOAX's ISP and ASN targeting makes that possible without enterprise contracts.

SOAX prices traffic by country "geo tier", with the same rate for residential and mobile: in Tier 1, $5/GB in the no-fee Sandbox, $3/GB on Builder, $1.50/GB on Scale and from $0.85/GB on Enterprise; Tier 3 goes as low as $0.35/GB. The Japan page doesn't say which tier Japan falls into, so check at checkout. You can test Japanese targets with a $1.99 paid trial that includes 400 MB for 3 days. Credits expire 60 days after purchase on monthly plans, and SOAX notes that its Japanese offer includes US-based, not Japanese, datacenter proxies.

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5. ProxyEmpire — Best for city coverage and mobile

ProxyEmpire has the broadest published city coverage in Japan: 234 targetable cities and districts across all 47 prefectures, from Tokyo, Osaka and Sapporo to smaller cities such as Hakodate, Matsue and Yokosuka. It is also the only provider we found that names all four Japanese mobile network operators — NTT docomo, au (KDDI), SoftBank and Rakuten Mobile — on its Japan page, and it mentions IPs from virtual operators such as IIJmio, mineo, ahamo, povo and LINEMO.

Japanese residential traffic costs $3.50/GB pay-as-you-go and falls to $1.50/GB on the 1 TB plan (custom plans from $0.75/GB), and unused traffic rolls over on monthly plans. Rotating mobile starts from $2/GB at volume, static residential IPs cost $3.50 for a single IP and $2/IP per month at 2,000 IPs, and rotating datacenter traffic starts at $0.35/GB. A $1.97 trial covers residential and mobile. The trade-off is the refund policy: ProxyEmpire's terms say all sales are final. It doesn't publish a Japan-specific IP count.

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6. IPRoyal — Best for static Japanese IPs and irregular usage

IPRoyal claims 487,067 Japanese IPs across residential, datacenter and mobile, and its Japan page lists hundreds of targetable locations, from Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya down to small towns in Hokkaido and Okinawa. It sells four proxy types with Japanese IPs: rotating residential, static ISP proxies from $2.40 per proxy, datacenter proxies from $1.39 per proxy (both on 90-day terms, with unlimited sessions), and dedicated mobile proxies from $10.11 per day.

The residential product suits Japanese projects that run in bursts, such as quarterly price studies: traffic never expires, and sticky sessions can last up to 7 days. Small purchases are expensive — $7.35/GB for 1 GB — but the price falls to $1.75/GB at 10 TB. Refunds are narrow: within 24 hours and only if you've used 100 MB or less.

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7. Rayobyte — Best for high-volume residential

Rayobyte, a US provider founded in 2015, has a dedicated Japan page and one of the clearest pricing structures for Japanese residential traffic. Its Premium Residential product gives every request a new Japanese IP by default, with sticky sessions of up to 120 minutes and targeting by city, postal code and ASN. Pay-as-you-go pricing runs from $3.50/GB down to $0.70/GB at 1–5 TB, and larger contracts go to $0.50/GB through sales.

Rayobyte also sells static datacenter IPs in Tokyo, from $0.85 per IP per month at scale. It doesn't offer Japanese mobile or ISP proxies, and it doesn't publish a Japan-specific IP count. It is one of the more transparent providers on sourcing: it describes an in-app consent screen with a visible opt-out and is certified by the Ethical Web Data Collection Initiative (EWDCI). Its very low-cost Scale Residential product is also available in Japan, but without targeting.

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8. Webshare — Best for budget datacenter IPs

Webshare, based in California, is the cheapest way to get a fixed Japanese IP for lightly protected targets. Its Japan page lists 302,815 Japanese IPs online and datacenter proxies from $0.029 per IP, falling to about $0.018 per IP on large plans. A free plan with 10 proxies lets you try the service without a card. For tougher targets, rotating residential traffic with city, ZIP and ASN targeting is also available, at $3.50/GB on the 1 GB plan and down to $1.40/GB at 3 TB.

Webshare doesn't split its Japanese count by proxy type, and shared datacenter IPs are the first to be flagged by Japanese marketplaces and ticketing sites. Use it for public price checks, SEO spot checks and testing, not for account work.

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9. DataImpulse — Best budget pay-as-you-go

DataImpulse is unusually honest about the size of its Japanese network, and that is exactly why it belongs on this list with a caveat. Instead of a headline number, its Japan page shows live statistics: in October 2026, 27,673 unique Japanese residential IPs over the last 30 days, 6,682 in the last 24 hours and about 2,172 active at any moment. Its Japanese mobile pool is smaller still — 7,057 unique IPs over 30 days and about 60 active at a time — and DataImpulse says it doesn't offer carrier targeting.

What you get in return is the lowest pay-as-you-go price on this list: $1/GB for residential (with a $5, 5 GB intro pack for new users), $0.80/GB at 1 TB, and traffic that never expires. Japanese mobile traffic starts at $2/GB. Country targeting is included; state, city, ZIP and ASN targeting cost extra. For country-level scraping of Japanese sites at modest concurrency, it's good value. For high-concurrency jobs or city-level work, a larger pool is the safer choice.

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10. Proxy-Seller — Best for dedicated per-IP plans

Proxy-Seller, registered in Cyprus and selling proxies since 2014, takes a different approach from the per-GB providers above. For Japan, it sells dedicated IPv4 datacenter proxies, ISP proxies, IPv6 proxies, mobile proxies and residential traffic, with unlimited bandwidth on the per-IP products. A single dedicated Japanese IPv4 address costs $0.90 for one week, with discounts of up to 10% for longer periods and volume deals of up to 30%. It is also one of the few providers selling Japanese IPv6 addresses.

Per-IP plans with unlimited traffic suit steady, bandwidth-heavy work in one country, such as gaming, long-running monitoring or a fixed set of accounts. Proxy-Seller offers a free replacement or refund within 24 hours if an issued address doesn't match your requirements. It doesn't publish a Japanese IP count or a list of Japanese carriers for its mobile proxies, so ask support before buying mobile.

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Other providers we considered

• Novada — 291,778 Japanese IPs and Japanese static ISP proxies, but its Japan page quotes residential from $3.60/GB, well above its global plan rates, and lists no Japanese cities or carriers.
• Geonode — 84,210 Japanese residential IPs across 12 cities, from $0.79/GB ($0.27/GB at very large volume), but a small global pool of 7.5M monthly IPs.
• Infatica — 100,000+ Japanese IPs with 10 named cities (including Tokyo, Osaka, Sapporo and Fukuoka) at $4/GB pay-as-you-go down to $2.60/GB, but only residential proxies are listed for Japan.
• MarsProxies — 133,030 Japanese datacenter, ISP and residential IPs across 8 major cities, and dedicated mobile from $8.49/day, but a claimed global residential pool of only 1M+ IPs.
• IPCook — 76,475 Japanese residential IPs, Tokyo and Osaka targeting and sticky sessions up to 24 hours; a younger, Hong Kong-based provider.
• NodeMaven — Japanese residential and mobile IPs in Tokyo, Osaka and Yokohama with real-time IP quality filtering, but no Japanese IP count published.
• NetNut — not recommended. On July 2, 2026, the FBI seized NetNut's domains, and Google, working with the FBI and Lumen, took action against its residential proxy network, which it linked to the "Popa" botnet. NetNut's parent company announced a temporary operational pause of some network services days later.

Which proxy type do you need for Japan?

Popular Japanese targets and what to expect

Rakuten Ichiba and Amazon.co.jp. Both serve Japanese prices, shipping options and stock levels based on location, and both flag repeated requests from datacenter ranges. Rotating residential IPs with requests spread over time work for catalogue and price monitoring. Use sticky sessions only for multi-step flows such as checking a cart total, and send Accept-Language: ja-JP so you get the Japanese site, not an English or international fallback.

Mercari and Yahoo! Auctions. Japan's two largest consumer-to-consumer marketplaces are built around domestic users. Browsing public listings works well through Japanese residential IPs. Buying and selling require Japanese accounts, which are tied to phone verification, Japanese payment methods and domestic shipping, so a proxy alone won't make them usable from abroad — this is where shopping proxy services come in.

Google and Yahoo! JAPAN search. Yahoo! JAPAN's web search uses Google's search technology, but the result pages, ads and features differ, so SEO teams usually track both. Results vary by city, so use city targeting when you track local rankings. Yahoo! JAPAN doesn't serve users in the EU or UK at all, so European teams need a Japanese IP to see it.

LINE and social accounts. LINE, Japan's dominant messaging app, ties accounts to a phone number and SMS verification. A Japanese mobile or static ISP IP keeps the account's location consistent, but you still need a phone number. For any account work, keep one account on one IP and don't rotate mid-session.

Ticketing and limited releases. Popular concerts and limited product drops in Japan often sell through lotteries tied to verified member accounts, phone numbers and sometimes ID checks at the venue, so proxies don't help much. Japan's Ticket Resale Act has also prohibited unauthorized resale of specified event tickets above face value since June 2019.

Streaming. TVer, ABEMA and U-NEXT restrict most content to viewers in Japan, and Netflix's Japanese catalogue differs from other regions. Streaming services' terms generally prohibit circumventing geographic restrictions, so use Japanese IPs for legitimate work such as quality checks, ad verification and catalogue monitoring, and check the service's terms first. Datacenter IPs are usually blocked; ISP or residential IPs with enough bandwidth work best.

Gaming. For lower latency to Japanese game servers, a fixed Tokyo IP on a dedicated datacenter or ISP proxy with unlimited bandwidth is a better fit than rotating residential traffic billed per GB.

How to test a Japanese proxy

Before you commit to a plan, use the trial or a small top-up to check five things:

1. Location. Check the exit IP with two or three geolocation services. They should agree on Japan and, if you're paying for city targeting, on the city. Small cities are often geolocated to the prefecture capital, so allow for some error.
2. Network. Look up the IP's ASN. A residential or ISP proxy should belong to a Japanese consumer network — for example AS4713 (NTT Communications / OCN), AS2516 (KDDI) or AS17676 (SoftBank) — while mobile IPs should belong to a carrier such as AS9605 (NTT docomo). An ASN belonging to a hosting company means you are on a datacenter IP.
3. Consistency with your browser. Japanese sites compare your IP with other signals. Set the browser or HTTP client language to ja-JP, the time zone to Asia/Tokyo (UTC+9, no daylight saving time), and make sure DNS requests go through the proxy so a foreign DNS resolver doesn't give you away.
4. Success rate on your real targets. Run 100–200 requests against the pages you actually need and count blocks, CAPTCHAs and wrong-language responses. This tells you more than any vendor's pool size.
5. Latency and session stability. Measure response times from where your scraper or browser runs, and check that sticky sessions really hold the same IP for as long as the provider says.

Is it legal to use proxies in Japan?

Using a proxy is legal in Japan, but the activity you carry out through it must be legal too. A few Japanese rules are worth knowing:

• Unauthorized Computer Access Act. It prohibits using someone else's login credentials and circumventing access controls. Scraping pages behind someone else's login is where most legal risk sits.
• Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI). It applies to any business handling personal information about people in Japan, including foreign companies. It requires a specified purpose of use and prohibits obtaining personal information by deceit or other improper means, so be careful when scraping profiles or reviews that identify people.
• Copyright Act, Article 30-4. Japan has a broad exception for using works for information analysis, which covers much data analysis and machine-learning work, but it has limits and doesn't cover reproducing content for people to read.
• Server load. Sending more requests than a site can handle can be treated as obstruction of business under the Penal Code. In the 2010 "Librahack" case, a developer in Okazaki was arrested after his crawler, requesting about one page per second, caused problems for a public library's poorly built system; prosecution was ultimately suspended. Throttle your requests and respect robots.txt and site terms.

This is a general overview, not legal advice. Get advice from a Japanese lawyer for any commercial data-collection project.

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