# How to buy from Mercari Japan

A Japan proxy is often preferred. That is a thread, not a tariff.

Estimates only. Not a quote, not a customs ruling, and not an offer to sell or ship. Confirm fees, prohibitions, and duty with the proxy and with destination customs. Figures can change after the last-verified date.

JapanLanded may later earn a commission when someone uses a referral link. Affiliate enrollments are not in place, so outbound links are public pages, not tracked referrals. We do not sell the goods. Names of proxies and products are used to describe them and are their owners' trademarks.

Data as of 2026-10-15. Dataset 2026-10-15.3.

## The fee that shows up later

r/Buyee's shipping comparison is explicit that domestic postage inside Japan is not always known at the moment you click buy, and that proxies differ on the exchange rate they apply. We store Buyee's domestic postage only as a rough range. ZenMarket is actual cost, unnumbered. We do not store an exchange rate at all.

A r/Mercari thread says using a proxy can beat Mercari's own international flow. Treat that as experience, then run your yen price through the estimator.

- [r/Buyee: Buyee vs ZenMarket shipping costs](https://www.reddit.com/r/Buyee/comments/1j38i0w/buyee_vs_zenmarket_shipping_costs/)
- [r/Mercari: international purchases with Japan](https://www.reddit.com/r/Mercari/comments/1gj15nv/intl_purchases_with_japan/)
- [Buyee fees guide](https://buyee.jp/helpcenter/guide/fees/?lang=en)
- [ZenMarket partnership page (Japanese)](https://zenmarket.jp/partnership.aspx)

## Worked example

6400 yen, 700 g, United States. Export check: nothing in this dataset blocks export to United States. This is not a customs clearance.

| Proxy | Pay now, known | EMS reference |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Buyee | ¥7,050 – ¥8,400 | ¥4,460 |
| ZenMarket | ¥7,200 | ¥4,460 |
| Neokyo | ¥7,250 | ¥4,460 |
| Tenso | ¥6,680 | ¥4,460 |
| FROM JAPAN | ¥6,400 | ¥4,460 |
| White Rabbit Express | ¥6,400 | ¥4,460 |

These partial sums are not a landed total. No cheapest and no fastest proxy. Domestic postage, payment fees, and the proxies' own international rates are missing or ranged, and no transit times are stored. Naming a winner would invent a number.

## Steps

1. **Copy the yen price.** Read the price on the listing yourself. JapanLanded does not fetch the page.
2. **Weigh it, or say you didn't.** Enter grams. If you leave weight blank, the tool uses an unsourced placeholder and labels it.
3. **Read pay-now separately from arrival.** The partial sum is not a landed total. Duty amounts are not calculated.
4. **Check whether it can leave Japan.** Lithium batteries, alcohol, and 100 V gear each have their own note. The result is not a customs clearance.
5. **Order on the proxy's own site.** Outbound links are public pages until affiliate programs are enrolled. We never take payment.

## Questions

### Can you read a Mercari URL?

No. URL fetching is out of scope. Paste the yen price.

- [Buyee fees guide](https://buyee.jp/helpcenter/guide/fees/?lang=en)

HTML: https://japanlanded.com/buy/mercari