Frequently asked questions

Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong, each with its own page. The service must not be used from mainland China, North Korea or sanctioned countries.

A proxy that sends your request out through the internet connection of a home. Websites see an IP address from a local internet provider, as for any person browsing at home. See residential proxies.

JapanProxies offers city targeting on every plan, in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan: Add a city to the username, such as -city-tokyo, -city-seoul or -city-taipei: you get an IP in that city when the pool has one online there. City availability varies. ASN targeting, such as -asn-4713 for NTT OCN, is included at no extra cost.

JapanProxies does not offer provider selection. The exit IP belongs to the provider of the home behind it. A WHOIS lookup shows which one.

JapanProxies does not sell static residential or ISP proxies. Sticky sessions keep one IP for up to 30 minutes, but no IP is reserved for you for months.

We sell dedicated 4G/5G ports in Japan and South Korea (not in Taiwan or Hong Kong) for $5.93 per day or $89.25 per 30 days, with unlimited data under fair use. They are on the pricing page.

JapanProxies is not a shopping or forwarding service. Services that buy from Japanese stores and ship abroad are also called "Japan proxy services". JapanProxies is a network service: your own software connects through a residential IP in East Asia.

As of October 2026: $2.62 for 1 GB, $4.95 for 5 GB, $6.60 for 10 GB, $26 for 50 GB, and $0.50/GB from 100 GB to 1 TB, paid from a $25 minimum top-up. All prices on the pricing page.

JapanProxies does not claim to be the cheapest. Our dated price comparison is a sample of 8 providers; other providers sell for less at some volumes, and prices change often. We focus on no KYC, crypto payment, traffic that never expires and East Asian checks.

BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC: USDT on TRC-20 or ERC-20, USDC on ERC-20. No cards, PayPal, bank transfers, Alipay or WeChat Pay.

$25. You can then buy any plan from your balance. Unused balance stays on your account and never expires, but it is not paid back, except where the law requires it.

Residential traffic at JapanProxies never expires. Dedicated mobile ports run for the days you bought.

Your balance is credited once the payment is confirmed on the blockchain and matched to your order. Networks need different numbers of confirmations: SOL 1, BTC 2, ETH and ERC-20 tokens 12, USDT on TRC-20 20. See how payment works.

Within 72 hours of purchase, a residential plan is credited back to your balance if you used less than 20% of its traffic and no more than 1 GB; a plan that does not work, and that support cannot fix within 24 hours, is credited back in full. Dedicated ports: within 24 hours of delivery (2 hours for a 1-day port), the port is credited back to your balance in full if it does not work and we cannot fix or replace it, or if it has carried less than 500 MB. A port we cannot deliver within 24 hours is credited back in full. If a port stops working later and support cannot fix it within 24 hours, the lost days are credited back. Top-ups are not paid back, except where the law requires it. See the refund policy.

JapanProxies does not verify identities. No KYC — no ID, no selfie, no documents. Account-number login; email is optional.

We do not log the content of your requests, full URLs or page data. To handle abuse reports and billing disputes, we keep connection metadata (time, account, exit IP, target hostname, bytes) for up to 30 days, then delete it. We keep your account number, orders, top-up records and traffic totals while your account is open, and afterwards only as long as accounting rules require. We disclose records to authorities only when the law requires it. Our upstream network provider may keep its own logs under its own policy. Details in the privacy policy.

If you added an email address, write to [email protected] from it. Without an email, a lost account number cannot be recovered, so store it in a password manager. We never ask for your account number by email or chat.

We do not log the content of your requests, full URLs or page data. To handle abuse reports and billing disputes, we keep connection metadata (time, account, exit IP, target hostname, bytes) for up to 30 days, then delete it. We keep your account number, orders, top-up records and traffic totals while your account is open, and afterwards only as long as accounting rules require. We disclose records to authorities only when the law requires it. Our upstream network provider may keep its own logs under its own policy. The privacy policy lists every item.

Host gw.japanproxies.com, port 7777 for HTTP/HTTPS or 7778 for SOCKS5, username USERNAME-country-jp (or kr, tw, hk) and your password. See the setup guide.

Add -session-ID-ttl-MINUTES to the username. The same session ID keeps the same IP for up to 30 minutes; the IP can change earlier if the residential device goes offline. A new ID usually gives a new IP.

IP location databases estimate locations, and some place Japanese home IPs at the provider's registered city. Compare two or three databases; see why a proxy shows the wrong location.

Legitimate checks: search results, ad verification, public prices, localization testing and privacy. See the use cases and the acceptable use policy.

Fraud, spam, attacks, unauthorized access, collection of personal data without a legal basis, automated buying of tickets or limited stock, and anything illegal where you or the target are. Blocked for everyone: Banking, government and payment-portal sites, plus SMTP (email-sending) ports 25, 465 and 587.

We found no law in either country that bans proxies as such; the laws apply to what you do through them. See proxy rules in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong. This is not legal advice.

ProxyGoat LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (USA). The team has been in the proxy business since 2019. See about us.

JapanProxies is operated by ProxyGoat LLC, by a team in the proxy business since 2019.

Email [email protected]. Email replies within 12 hours, 7 days a week. Abuse reports go to [email protected].

No. JapanProxies works by email only, at the two addresses on the contact page. Treat any other channel that uses our name as unofficial.

Japanese and Korean versions may be added first, then Traditional Chinese for Taiwan. The English pages are the reference.