Best proxies for Japan in 2026, compared by criteria

Japan by proxy type: what each network gives you

The rule that saves money in Japan as anywhere: start with the cheapest network the target accepts, measure a block, then move up. The proxy tester builds the curl, Python and Node commands for that check.

Japanese mobile carriers you can name, and what the catalog lists

The mobile targeting catalog lists 199 countries and territories; on 20 September 2026 it listed 604 regions and 994 cities, with a selectable carrier in 140 countries (410 operators in total). For Japan it lists 3 operators, 9 regions and 9 cities. The mobile pool exceeds 500k IPs worldwide; the catalog counts locations, not IPs per country, and we do not publish a per-country IP figure.

Example of a place-level username, taken from the catalog: USER-country-jp-region-osaka-city-osaka-type-mobile lands in Osaka, Osaka. The Japan mobile page lists every region and city with the operators associated with it.

What the catalog lists for Japan, checked

Numbers, not adjectives. Every Japanese figure on this page is a dated read of the live QuanticData catalog, and here they are in one table; the Japanese speed rows join the tested articles at the next run, with the same method as the ten residential and eight mobile countries already published.

Test before you buy: 100 MB of residential bandwidth is free, no card, from a Japanese exit, in the next ten minutes. The proxy tester writes the commands.

What the Japan proxy market looks like from the search results

Search "best proxies for Japan" and four of the top five results are about proxy shopping, forwarders that buy from Mercari or Yahoo! Auctions on your behalf, with "Japan Rabbit" and "best Mercari Japan proxy" in the related searches. The networking buyer gets a free-proxy list and little else. Nobody in those results publishes Japanese stock by city or names the operators city by city; this page and the pages per network do.

Skip the free lists for anything with a login: shared, short-lived addresses of unknown ownership. Read the per-port offers with a calculator, on the static mobile page for Japan: at our 500 GB rate a port at $3.00 a day wins only past 1.3 GB a day through that single IP.

One page per network for Japan

Each network gets its own Japan page, same format, no filler: the verdict, a table with QuanticData first and the other providers' published figures dated, what you get for Japan in detail, how the Japan search results read, and the one-line setup.

• Best rotating residential proxies for Japan: 91 networks, 45 regions, $1.00/GB; Premium by city from $4 for 1 GB.
• Best static residential (ISP) proxies for Japan: 22,638 dedicated IPs in Tokyo, Osaka, Ebara and 4 more on 16 October 2026, unlimited bandwidth, from 1 day.
• Best mobile proxies for Japan: NTT Docomo Business, NTT Docomo and au (KDDI) by name, 9 cities with their operators, $5 for 1 GB.
• Best static mobile proxies for Japan: One carrier address held up to 24 hours, per GB, against the dedicated ports priced on 9 November 2026.

Other providers for Japan: what their pages say

Most providers publish one price list for the whole planet, and the global comparisons carry them (residential read on 8 September and 30 October 2026, mobile on 13 September and 30 October 2026). None of the four below publishes a Japan-specific figure on the pages we read; here are their global prices beside ours, read across:

Published prices of other providers

Other providers publish one price list for every country, so their entry prices live on the global comparisons rather than here: residential, 14 providers read on 8 September 2026 and mobile, 15 providers read on 13 September 2026. Ours for Japan are the same as everywhere else:

Getting a Japanese exit in one line

Host and port are shown in the dashboard after purchase; USER and PASS stand for the credentials. The username does the routing on both networks.

# residential, rotating, Japan
      curl -x "$PROXY_HOST" -U "USER-country-jp:PASS" https://ipinfo.io/json
      
      # residential, sticky for 30 minutes, Osaka
      curl -x "$PROXY_HOST" -U "USER-country-jp-region-osaka-city-osaka-sid-a1b2c3-ttl-30m:PASS" https://ipinfo.io/json
      
      # mobile, one carrier, sticky for 12 hours (one session ID per account)
      curl -x "$PROXY_HOST" -U "USER-country-jp-isp-ntt_docomo_business-type-mobile-sid-acct01-ttl-720m:PASS" https://ipinfo.io/json

HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 share the credentials. Prefer an API to a proxy for the data side? The SERP API and the Web Scraper API take the country as a parameter and return JSON, billed per successful result.