Which of these can you actually buy?

Every brand in the index, grouped by how simply it reaches you from outside Japan.

Straightforward

11 brandsView all

Ships to you, reads in English, takes your card, and will take it back. Order tonight and it arrives.

Doable, with a catch

1 brandView all

It will reach you, but something in the process asks for patience — a Japanese checkout, a card that may refuse, a return you cannot make.

Needs someone in Japan

32 brandsView all

The shop will not post abroad or will not take a foreign card. Buy it through a stockist near you, a proxy service, or us.

Not yet verified

– – –30 brandsView all

We have not walked this checkout ourselves, so we say nothing. This is a queue, not a verdict.

Ranked A–Z within each group, not against each other. Two brands that clear the same four checks are equally easy to buy, and putting one above the other would be inventing a difference. Browse the full index.

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