FROM JAPAN: what you actually pay
Checked against FROM JAPAN's own fee pages on 2026-08-07.
Service fee by marketplace
| Buying from | Fee |
|---|---|
| Yahoo! Auctions | ¥500 per item |
| Mercari Japan | ¥500 per item |
| Rakuten Rakuma | ¥500 per item |
| Amazon.co.jp | ¥500 per item |
| Rakuten Ichiba | ¥500 per item |
| a ZenMarket recommended store | ¥500 per item |
| any Japanese online shop | ¥500 per item |
Other charges
- Payment / deposit fee: none
- Packing / consolidation: included
- Free storage: 60 days
- Export clearance fee: ¥2,800 above ¥200,000
When FROM JAPAN is actually the cheapest
Fee tables do not answer that on their own, so here is the same set of orders priced through all four services, showing where FROM JAPAN lands:
| Order | FROM JAPAN | Total | Beaten by |
|---|---|---|---|
| one ¥10,000 item, 1kg, to the United States | 1st | ¥16,500 | — |
| three separate items from one shop | 2nd | ¥17,500 | Buyee ¥16,500 |
| a heavy 3kg parcel | 1st | ¥21,500 | — |
| an expensive ¥100,000 item | 1st | ¥106,500 | — |
| a light 200g order to Taiwan | 1st | ¥13,223 | — |
FROM JAPAN wins 4 of the five: one ¥10,000 item, 1kg, to the United States; a heavy 3kg parcel; an expensive ¥100,000 item; a light 200g order to Taiwan. It loses the others, which is the whole reason this site calculates rather than recommends a single service.
Storage, and what happens if you leave things too long
FROM JAPAN stores a purchase free for 60 days from the moment it reaches their warehouse. This matters more than it sounds: the free window is what lets you win several auctions over a few weeks and ship them together in one box, which saves far more in postage than the storage costs.
Optional services you may end up paying for
- Photographs of the item before it ships: ¥500 for 3. On a second-hand auction purchase this is often the only way to find out what you actually bought before it leaves Japan.
- Repacking after the parcel is made up: from ¥1,500.
Import tax collected up front
- AU: GST 10%
- NZ: GST 15%
- SG: GST 9%
- MY: SST 10%
Where tax is collected up front you pay nothing extra when the parcel arrives, and you usually avoid the courier's own customs handling charge.