Which Japanese Card Shops Ship Directly Overseas? 10 Checked

You found the card, the shop’s stock page says 在庫あり, and then the checkout asks for a Japanese postal code. We read the shipping pages of 10 Japanese card storefronts in early August 2026: four of them will put a parcel in the post to an overseas address themselves, and only one of those four sells individually priced singles. That gap — between the shops that export and the shops that hold the stock — is the entire reason the proxy industry exists.

Which Japanese card shops ship directly overseas?

Four of the 10 we checked ship direct with no proxy layer: TCG Republic, Fuji Card Shop, AmiAmi and the Suruga-ya global storefront at suruga-ya.com. Everything else on the list — including Japan’s biggest singles catalogs — publishes domestic shipping only. Here is the whole board, checked against each shop’s own pages.

Two of those rows deserve a footnote before anything else. Card Rush returned HTTP 403 over https, over http, with www and without, using a normal desktop browser user agent; its robots.txt served fine, so the site is up and simply refuses automated fetches. We have not described its shipping policy because we could not read it. And Pokémon Center Online is here as the reference point rather than a finding: Japan delivery, with a membership that requires a Japanese address.

What the four exporters actually charge

The four that do ship abroad price it in four different ways, and the differences are larger than the fees themselves.

TCG Republic is the outlier and the most useful discovery here. It is a Japan-based English-language shop selling Japanese singles across Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece, Weiss Schwarz and more; its Pokémon category page states 31,763 kinds of cards are available. Its shipping page gives one shipping area — Worldwide — with a handling time of 5 to 15 business days, standard air at 2 to 3 weeks and priority at 5 to 15 days. Payment is PayPal, or a credit card processed through PayPal without a PayPal account. Its FAQ answers “Do you ship to my country?” with two words: “Yes. We ship any location worldwide.”

Fuji Card Shop is a Japan-based exporter with a policy line most shops never need to write: it does not ship or sell to addresses within Japan. Its stock is sealed — booster boxes, sealed cases, special sets and promo packs — with nothing priced per card. Its customs page is unusually specific and worth reading before you order: US-bound orders have tariffs collected at checkout, Australian GST is collected at checkout under 1,000 AUD, and it states plainly that it will not declare a lower value than the sale price because doing so would violate Japanese export law.

AmiAmi ships worldwide and its Card Games section is sealed product — expansion boxes and starter decks — not singles. The practical catch is timing: its own help center says shipping costs are calculated after an order is placed and all items are ready to ship, and that it cannot estimate shipping for preorders at all. You commit before you know the freight.

Suruga-ya’s global storefront at suruga-ya.com is a real, official English site that ships by DHL, EMS or SAL. Its Q&A states a ¥900 handling fee on every order in addition to shipping, offset by ¥500 off shipping for every ¥10,000 spent. What we could not verify from Suruga-ya’s own pages is how much of the enormous domestic catalog at suruga-ya.jp actually appears on the global site — its search URLs returned 404 and 403 to us — so we are not going to characterize that depth either way.

The inventories that stay in Japan

Now the other side, and the reason this article exists.

Hareruya2 (晴れる屋2), the Pokémon arm of the Hareruya group, runs a deep singles catalog out of Akihabara with its own four-step condition scale. Its help page lists exactly two shipping methods, both Japan Post domestic: Yu-Packet at a flat ¥200 nationwide, free over ¥30,000, with no compensation for loss; and Yu-Pack priced by Japanese region — ¥600 to Tokyo at 60 size, ¥1,110 to Hokkaido, ¥1,370 to Okinawa. Its legal disclosure page repeats the same thing: shipping from ¥200 nationwide. The five payment methods are credit card, cash on delivery, convenience store, bank transfer and postal transfer — four of which only function if you are standing in Japan. There is no overseas option anywhere on either page.

Yuyu-tei (遊々亭) advertises 全品送料無料 — free shipping on everything — and its delivery FAQ lists three ways to receive an order: a no-preference service that is free nationwide, a time-slot parcel priced by region, and cash on delivery with a ¥330 surcharge. Nationwide means Japan. There is no English interface and no mention of 海外 on either page.

magi is a Japanese trading-card flea-market app. Japanese interface, Japanese app stores, no overseas shipping information.

Card Labo (カードラボ) is the interesting case, because it looks like an exception and is not one.

Card Labo publishes a page headed “C-labo corresponding to international shipping!” — and what it describes is registering with tenso.com, receiving a Japanese forwarding address, and having Card Labo ship domestically to that address. Its own FAQ says it directly: shipping overseas is tenso.com’s service, domestic shipping is charged by Card Labo and the international leg is charged by tenso.com. On this route only credit card, PayPal and Amazon Pay work; the page warns that choosing any other payment method cancels the order and releases the stock.

That is a forwarder, not direct shipping — a proxy layer with a different label. It is worth knowing about, because a forwarder is cheaper than a full proxy service when you already know exactly what you want, but the fee math is two invoices, not one.

How to check any Japanese shop in five minutes

The list above will age. The method will not.

The honest summary is not encouraging, and it is better to know it going in: direct shipping from Japan is a real option for sealed product and for whatever TCG Republic happens to list, and effectively unavailable for the long tail of specific singles at specific grades. If that is what you are after, you are choosing between a proxy service, a forwarder, or someone buying in Japan for you. The four-route overview sets out the landscape; the proxy services compared piece runs the actual numbers between them; and whichever route you take, the parcel still meets your border, which is covered in import tax and customs on cards from Japan.

One last thing that applies to every route on this page: none of these shops grade cards to a scale you already know. Before you buy a single from any of them, learn to read what the Japanese condition wording actually means — a card sold as 状態B at Hareruya2 and a card sold as 傷有り at yuyu-tei are two different shops’ private vocabularies, and neither maps to a number.