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Cheapest proxy service from Japan to United Kingdom

The same order — ¥10,000 of goods, roughly 1kg packed, EMS to United Kingdom — priced through all five services, from each of the seven places a proxy can buy from. Doorzo is cheapest wherever you buy — and at ¥18,280 the marketplace makes no difference to the total.

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Cheapest service for each marketplace

Where you buyCheapestTotalThe other four
Yahoo! Auctions Doorzo ¥18,280 FROM JAPAN ¥18,480 · Buyee ¥18,480 · Neokyo ¥18,830 · ZenMarket ¥19,357
Mercari Japan Doorzo ¥18,280 FROM JAPAN ¥18,480 · Buyee ¥18,480 · Neokyo ¥18,830 · ZenMarket ¥19,357
Rakuten Rakuma Doorzo ¥18,280 FROM JAPAN ¥18,480 · Buyee ¥18,480 · Neokyo ¥18,830 · ZenMarket ¥19,046
Amazon.co.jp Doorzo ¥18,280 FROM JAPAN ¥18,480 · Buyee ¥18,480 · Neokyo ¥18,830 · ZenMarket ¥19,046
Rakuten Ichiba Doorzo ¥18,280 FROM JAPAN ¥18,480 · Buyee ¥18,480 · Neokyo ¥18,830 · ZenMarket ¥19,046
a ZenMarket recommended store Doorzo ¥18,280 FROM JAPAN ¥18,480 · Buyee ¥18,480 · Neokyo ¥18,830 · ZenMarket ¥18,839
any Japanese online shop Doorzo ¥18,280 FROM JAPAN ¥18,480 · Buyee ¥18,480 · Neokyo ¥18,830 · ZenMarket ¥19,046

The cheapest total is ¥18,280 from every marketplace on this list. Doorzo charges one flat service fee regardless of where it buys, so on a single-item order the marketplace changes nothing. It starts to matter once you order more than one item, or once a service that charges per order rather than per item becomes the cheapest — the table below shows where the ranking actually moves.

What happens when you buy more than one thing

Service fees are not charged on the same unit, so the ranking above is only the answer for a single item. Here is the same Yahoo! Auctions order at one item, at three separate items, and at three items bought from the same shop:

Service1 item3 items3 from one shop
Doorzo¥300¥600same
FROM JAPAN¥500¥1,500same
Buyee¥500¥1,500same
Neokyo¥350¥1,050same
ZenMarket¥800¥2,400same

Doorzo stays cheapest at three items (¥18,580 in total). Buying several things at once also shares one parcel and one lot of postage between them, which usually matters more than the service fee does.

When the item costs more, or less

For an auction win, Doorzo stays cheapest from ¥3,000 all the way to ¥100,000. For a new item from a shop, Doorzo stays cheapest from ¥3,000 all the way to ¥100,000. On a ¥3,000 item the cost of getting it to United Kingdom is ¥6,780, 226% of the item; on a ¥100,000 item it is ¥26,280, or 26%.

Item priceCheapest from Yahoo! AuctionsCheapest from Amazon.co.jp
¥3,000Doorzo, ¥9,780Doorzo, ¥9,780
¥10,000Doorzo, ¥18,280Doorzo, ¥18,280
¥30,000Doorzo, ¥42,280Doorzo, ¥42,280
¥100,000Doorzo, ¥126,280Doorzo, ¥126,280

When the parcel is heavier

Doorzo stays cheapest from 500 g to 5 kg on a Yahoo! Auctions order. What grows is the gap to the most expensive option, from ¥1,031 to ¥1,389.

ParcelEMS postageCheapestTotalGap to dearest
500 g¥3,150Doorzo¥16,780¥1,031
1 kg¥4,400Doorzo¥18,280¥1,077
2 kg¥6,700Doorzo¥21,040¥1,160
5 kg¥13,000Doorzo¥28,600¥1,389

What the cheapest total is made of

Doorzo's ¥18,280 on a Yahoo! Auctions order breaks down as proxy service fee ¥300, domestic shipping in japan ¥700, international shipping ¥4,400, on top of the ¥10,000 item itself, plus ¥2,880 of import tax when it arrives. The item is 55% of what you actually spend — the rest is the cost of getting it out of Japan and through customs.

#ServicePay the proxyPay on deliveryTotalTax
1 Doorzo ¥15,400 ¥2,880 ¥18,280
≈ £87
On delivery
2 FROM JAPAN ¥15,600 ¥2,880 ¥18,480
≈ £88
On delivery
3 Buyee ¥15,600 ¥2,880 ¥18,480
≈ £88
On delivery
4 Neokyo ¥15,950 ¥2,880 ¥18,830
≈ £90
On delivery
5 ZenMarket ¥19,357 ¥0 ¥19,357
≈ £93
Prepaid

Local-currency figures are approximate, converted at the European Central Bank reference rate of 2026-10-01 (1 £ = ¥209.1). Your card or the proxy will use its own rate on the day.

You may not need a proxy at all

The Amazon, Rakuten, recommended-shop and other-store rows above are places selling new, in-stock goods. For those a proxy is often unnecessary: some Japanese shops ship overseas themselves, and the proxy fees in that table — from ¥5,400 on this order, on top of the item price — disappear entirely.

This does not apply to Yahoo! Auctions, Mercari or Rakuma. Those listings are second-hand or one-off, and no direct shop stocks the same item.

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Shipping availability and postage differ by store and by country. Check on the store's own site before ordering.

What we could not confirm

Doorzo: payment fee is not published; treated as ¥0

Work out your own order

The figures above are for one example order. Change anything here and every total recalculates.