Check Amazon.co.jp prices from a Japanese IP

What is Amazon.co.jp?

Amazon.co.jp is Amazon's store for Japan, operated by Amazon Japan G.K. It is separate from Amazon.com: it has its own catalogue, its own sellers and prices in yen.

What a page shows depends on where Amazon thinks the shopper is. Delivery dates, Prime messages and some offers are tied to a Japanese delivery address. A visitor from abroad sees international shipping messages instead.

What changes when you open Amazon.co.jp from a Japanese IP?

• Delivery messages. Dates and "free delivery" lines for an address in Japan, once you set a Japanese postal code.
• Offers. The list of sellers who ship to Japan, and the offer Amazon chooses to show first.
• Prices. Prices in yen as shown to shoppers in Japan, including points and coupons shown on the page.
• Language. Japanese by default; an English interface is available but changes some text.

What does a Japanese IP not change on Amazon.co.jp?

• The delivery address. Amazon ties delivery and many offers to the postal code you enter, not only to the IP. Set a Japanese postal code to complete the view.
• Member prices. Prime prices and coupons that need a signed-in member are not part of a public, signed-out check.
• The exact region. Delivery estimates depend on the postal code you set, not on the IP's city.

What can you legitimately check on Amazon.co.jp?

• Check the public price and delivery message of your own products in Japan.
• Watch the public prices of comparable products on a small list of pages.
• Confirm that your product page, images and Japanese text appear correctly to shoppers in Japan.
• Check that a promotion you run in Japan is visible on the public page.

More examples in our guide to public price monitoring.

What do Amazon.co.jp's rules say about automated access?

Amazon's conditions of use restrict robots and other data-gathering and extraction tools. The robots.txt of amazon.co.jp also lists paths that robots must not request, such as account pages and the /dp/product-availability/ and /dp/rate-this-item/ endpoints. Read both before any automated collection, keep checks small and slow, and never sign in through a proxy to collect member-only data.

If you sell on Amazon.co.jp, Seller Central and Amazon's official seller APIs give you your own listing, pricing and order data directly. Use a Japanese residential IP to see the public page as a shopper in Japan does.

Our own acceptable use policy applies too: public pages only, no sign-in on someone else's behalf, and respect for each site's decisions about access.

Which proxy settings should I use for Amazon.co.jp?

• Username: USERNAME-country-jp-session-check1-ttl-30, so the page and its follow-up requests keep one IP.
• Header: Accept-Language: ja-JP,ja;q=0.9.
• Set a Japanese postal code in the delivery location box before you read delivery dates.
• Space out requests: one product page every few seconds is enough for monitoring.

Connect to gw.japanproxies.com on port 7777 (HTTP and HTTPS) or 7778 (SOCKS5), with the username and password from your dashboard. Without a session ID, each new connection can leave from a different Japanese IP.