Japan Market Data for AI Developers

Every Japanese marketplace — Mercari, Yahoo Auctions, Rakuten, Mandarake, DLsite, SUUMO — runs on language walls and API restrictions that exclude English-speaking developers. There is no single queryable source for Japanese resale prices, real estate transactions, or collectible demand.

This project closes that gap.

What's available

55 production-grade Apify actors covering every major Japanese data vertical:

Category	Actors	Examples
Resale marketplaces	12	Mercari Japan, Yahoo Auctions JP, Rakuten, Hard Off OffMall
Collectibles	8	Mandarake, Suruga-ya, anime figures, trading cards
Real estate	4	SUUMO rentals, MLIT transaction prices (47 prefectures), property hazard zones
Automotive	4	Goo-net cars, Goobike motorcycles, upgarage parts
Electronics	4	Used cameras (Kitamura), smartphones (IOSYS), watches (Jack Road)
Luxury & fashion	3	Komehyo, kimono market, luxury brands
Government & stats	6	JMA weather, MHLW medical, corporate numbers, minimum wage, JEPX electricity
MCP servers	8	JSON-RPC servers for Claude/Cursor/any MCP client

Total lifetime runs: 4,894+ across all actors. All free to run on Apify's pay-per-use model.

Quick start

Via MCP (recommended for AI agents)

npm install -g @atushi1841/japan-market-mcp

Add to your .mcp.json:

{ "mcpServers": { "japan-market": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@atushi1841/japan-market-mcp"] } } }

Call tools like mercari_search("anime figure", 20) directly from Claude or Cursor.

Via Apify API (Python)

from apify_client import ApifyClient client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN") # free tier: 1M credits/month run = client.actor("atushi1841/mercari-japan-search-scraper").call({ "searchQuery": "fujifilm x-series", "maxResults": 30 }) results = run["data"]["items"]

Via Apify API (Node.js)

const { ApifyClient } = require("apify-client"); const client = new ApifyClient(process.env.APIFY_API_TOKEN); const run = await client.actor("atushi1841/yahoo-auctions-japan-scraper").call({ keyword: "Pokemon card", maxResults: 50 });

Full examples in examples/.

Why this exists

Japan's secondhand and collectibles market is worth ¥4.4 trillion (2024). Mercari Japan alone has 231 million monthly active users. Yet every major data source — Mercari, Yahoo Auctions, Rakuten, Mandarake — requires:

Japanese language fluency
API keys that don't exist (most don't have public APIs)
Proxies to bypass geo-restrictions

No single tool aggregates this data in a developer-friendly format. These 55 actors do exactly that: one click, structured JSON, no credentials needed beyond a free Apify account.

Data quality

Every actor outputs consistent JSON with:

title, price, currency, url
seller, condition, images[]
scraped_at (ISO 8601 UTC)
Source-specific fields (e.g., prefecture for real estate, brand for cameras)

The top 10 actors by run count have been running daily for 30+ days with 99%+ success rates.

The full catalog

#	Actor	Category	Runs
1	japan-market-mcp	MCP bundle	604
2	japan-offmall-market-scraper	Hard Off OffMall	376
3	mandarake-auction-scraper	Mandarake Auctions	348
4	tackleberry-japan-fishing-tackle-scraper	Fishing tackle	247
5	mercari-japan-search-scraper	Mercari Japan	177
6	japan-used-camera-market-scraper	Used cameras	167
7	yahoo-auctions-japan-scraper	Yahoo Auctions JP	163
8	japan-watch-market-scraper	Watches	151
9	japan-luxury-brand-market-scraper	Luxury brands	149
10	japan-kakaku-price-search	Kakaku.com	148