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If you can find one for sale on a Japanese retailer, there are third-party proxy services you can use to have it shipped to the US. IIRC some are platform-speci
by spondylosaurus 3y ago
If you can find one for sale on a Japanese retailer, there are third-party proxy services you can use to have it shipped to the US. IIRC some are platform-specific (like services for Yahoo! Japan auctions), and the proxy obviously adds to the total price, but it's all legit. I've bought a fair bit of stuff through proxies.
- dotancohen 3y agoSuggestions for services that you have used would be appreciated.
- spondylosaurus 3y agoUnfortunately it's been about a decade since the last time I had anything shipped from Japan, so I don't remember which proxies I used :( If you're looking for recs, I'd recommend trawling some of the subreddits for figurine collectors or garage kit hobbyists since they're both groups that employ proxy services quite a bit. Any type of otaku group really, lol. They'll almost certainly have some stories to share about good/bad companies.
- devnullbrain 3y agoTenso. Service agnostic, just use the provided address.
- boastful_inaba 3y agoYou can use either a forwarding service where you order yourself to an address with a personal code, or a proxy buying service which does the ordering for you. The big forwarding service would be Tenso: https://www.tenso.com/en https://www.tenso.com/en Proxy services include Buyee - https://buyee.jp/ https://buyee.jp/ (though they don't like VPN access) Noppin - https://noppin.com/ https://noppin.com/ Japan Rabbit - https://japanrabbit.com/ https://japanrabbit.com/ amongst many others.