How to Check Japanese Pokémon Card Prices

Japanese cards trade in two markets at once. In Japan they are bought and sold in yen through card shops and apps, while collectors overseas mostly buy them through American marketplaces priced in US dollars. The same card can sit at quite different prices in each, so it pays to check more than one before you buy or sell.

Search by set and card number

Every Japanese card has a set code and a collector number such as 110/076 printed near the bottom. Searching by name alone mixes up the regular, Special Art Rare and gold versions of the same Pokémon, which can be worth wildly different amounts. Search with the set name and the number together and you will land on the right printing. Our guide on reading a Japanese card shows where to find both.

SNKRDUNK

SNKRDUNK is a Japanese marketplace with an English version and one of the main places Japanese singles change hands. Each card has its own page with current listings and a market price. Its articles also rank the most valuable cards in each new set, along with the buy prices shops are paying, which makes it a quick way to see what the top hits of a set are worth.

TCGplayer and PriceCharting

TCGplayer added Japanese cards in 2024 as a separate product line called Pokémon Japan, so Japanese and English versions of a card are listed separately there. PriceCharting tracks Japanese sets too and shows prices for ungraded cards next to graded ones, which helps when you want to know what a PSA 10 copy is worth compared with a raw card. Both price in US dollars, so convert to Australian dollars at the day's rate before comparing.

Japanese shop price lists

Terastal Festival Japanese Pokémon special box — Terastal Festival has cards that sell for very different prices at different shops.

Big Japanese card shops such as Card Rush and Hareruya 2 list every single they sell with a price. Many shops also publish a buy price. The buy price (買取, kaitori) is what a shop will pay you for a card. It sits below the selling price, but because shops update buy prices often it is a good sign of which way a card is moving. The rankings in our top hits guide draw on these lists.

Reading the numbers from Australia

A price on a Japanese or American site isn't what a card costs to land here. Postage from overseas adds to it, while orders of A$1,000 or less also have GST charged at checkout under the ATO's low value imports rules. Condition matters as well, since listed prices are usually for cards in near mint condition and anything with whitening or a crease sells for less.

For sealed product the same rule applies. Once you compare a box price from overseas with the delivered price here, GST and postage included, the gap is often smaller than it first looks. Our box prices guide covers what Japanese boxes cost in Australia right now.