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Japan mobile proxies for app testing and phone search checks
Exits on Japanese carrier networks, billed per GB from $3.99 down to $2.19. Japan has four mobile networks and, since 31 March 2026, no 3G. Put -cc-jp in a mobile login and hold one exit for up to 6 hours, or let each request take a new one.
Mobile networks4
NTT Docomo, KDDI, SoftBank and Rakuten Mobile. Virtual operators ride on their lines and held 18.6% of contracts in June 2026.
5G contracts131.53M
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, end of June 2026: up 13.7% in a year.
Phone page views on iOS53.8%
StatCounter’s share for Japan in October 2026. Android had the other 46.18%.
Longest sticky session6 h
One Japanese carrier exit for up to six hours, or a fresh one per request.
Carriers
Japan’s mobile networks as an IP lookup shows them
NTT Docomo sells the most contracts, yet KDDI’s and SoftBank’s ASNs reach more of the users APNIC measures. Both companies also run home broadband under those numbers, and the Japan proxies page lists them among the household networks. Rakuten Mobile, the smallest of the four, is the furthest along on IPv6.
| Network | ASN in a lookup | Share of mobile contracts | Share of Japanese users | IPv6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NTT Docomo | AS9605 | 32.2% | 5.98% | 88.3% |
| KDDI (au) | AS2516 | 26.5% | 19.35% | 90.3% |
| SoftBank | AS17676 | 19.1% | 16.76% | 63.2% |
| Rakuten Mobile | AS138384 | 3.8% | 1.55% | 94.7% |
| Virtual operators (MVNOs) | Varies | 18.6% | Not listed | Not listed |
Contract shares: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, 30 June 2026, KDDI with its group. User share and IPv6 capability: APNIC Labs, 24–25 October 2026, for Japan’s internet users in general, not for our pool.
A Japanese quirk
4G and 5G only: how Japan closed its 3G networks
The three older operators switched 3G off one after another, Docomo last, and the ministry has proposed a stricter identity check for new SIM contracts.
au ends 3G
KDDI and Okinawa Cellular stopped CDMA 1X WIN, the 3G service sold under the au brand.
SoftBank follows
SoftBank ended 3G everywhere except Ishikawa Prefecture, where residents kept it until 31 July 2024 because of the Noto Peninsula earthquake.
Chip-read ID at the shop
The ministry put out for consultation a rule that shops confirm a buyer at an in-person SIM contract by reading the chip in a My Number card or comparable ID. Its stated reason: forged documents had been used to contract phones later used in fraud.
Docomo closes FOMA
NTT Docomo shut FOMA, its 3G network, together with i-mode, and asked remaining FOMA customers to move to a 4G or 5G plan and handset.
131.53 million on 5G
The ministry’s quarterly count: 5G contracts up 13.7% in a year, LTE down 5.1% to 105.81 million.
Use cases
What people check from a Japanese phone connection
Phone rankings
Google answers 85.08% of mobile searches in Japan. Pull mobile result pages for your rank reports from a carrier address. How SERP checks are set up.
Yahoo! JAPAN on a phone
The second most visited site in the country also takes 11.79% of mobile searches. Read its mobile results and news slots.
Posts and campaigns on X
The fifth most visited site in Japan, with an ad audience of 71.2 million. See your own posts and paid campaigns as they load on a Japanese network.
Instagram accounts you run
63.2 million people in Instagram’s Japanese ad audience. Work on your own profiles from one exit per session. Instagram setup.
TikTok from Japan
TikTok counts 39.2 million adults in its Japanese ad audience. Review your own videos and the local feed. TikTok setup.
Mercari listings
Fourth among marketplaces in Japan. Asking prices and sold items on the mobile site, read while logged out.
Mobile ad placements
YouTube reaches 78.5 million people in Japan with ads. Confirm that your pre-roll and in-feed ads appear on Japanese phones.
Your own accounts under each platform’s rules, and pages a logged-out visitor can open; every site’s terms apply. Audiences: DataReportal, late 2025. Search shares: StatCounter, September 2026. Ranks: Similarweb, September 2026.
Devices
iPhones lead on phones, Chrome leads among browsers
Phones produced 45.78% of Japanese page views in September 2026 and desktops 51.83% (StatCounter). Among phones the operating systems are close: iOS had 53.8% of mobile page views in October 2026, Android 46.18%.
Browsers split differently. Chrome led mobile browsing with 54.85% and Safari had 40.43%, so Chrome’s share is larger than Android’s and part of it runs on iPhones. A test plan for a Japanese mobile site needs Chrome on both systems; Safari alone covers about four page views in ten.
On a phone, search is Google’s: 85.08% of mobile searches against 11.79% for Yahoo! and 0.91% for Bing. Desktop search in Japan leans the other way, towards Bing, which is a job for household exits.
Pricing
Prices for Japanese mobile traffic
Japan sits on the same mobile ladder as every other country. The rate of the tier you reach applies to the whole purchase, and the GB never expire.
| Traffic you buy | Price per GB | For example |
|---|---|---|
| 1–9 GB | $3.99 | 5 GB for $19.95 |
| 10–49 GB | $3.49 | 10 GB for $34.90 |
| 50–99 GB | $3.19 | 50 GB for $159.50 |
| 100–249 GB | $2.89 | 100 GB for $289.00 |
| 250–499 GB | $2.59 | 250 GB for $647.50 |
| 500–999 GB | $2.39 | 500 GB for $1,195.00 |
| 1,000+ GB | $2.19 | 1,000 GB for $2,190.00 |
Residential traffic is $0.50 a GB cheaper at every tier, $3.49 → $1.69. Pricing shows the trial’s current terms.
For developers
A Docomo or Rakuten exit, confirmed by its ASN
Carrier keys work in the US, the UK and Germany only. Here the login names the country and a session, and the loop keeps an exit only when ipinfo.io reports one of the four operators’ ASNs.
import requests, uuid
GATE = "gate.aeonproxy.com:7000"
MOBILE_JP = {"AS9605", "AS2516", "AS17676", "AS138384"} # NTT Docomo, KDDI, SoftBank, Rakuten Mobile
def japanese_mobile_exit(tries=6):
for _ in range(tries):
sid = uuid.uuid4().hex[:8]
proxy = f"http://ap_a1b2c3-cc-jp-sid-{sid}-time-1800:PASS@{GATE}"
geo = requests.get("https://ipinfo.io/json", proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy}, timeout=30).json()
asn = geo.get("org", "").split(" ")[0]
if geo.get("country") == "JP" and asn in MOBILE_JP:
return proxy, geo
raise SystemExit("no Japanese mobile ASN after %d sessions" % tries)
proxy, geo = japanese_mobile_exit()
print(geo["ip"], geo["country"], geo["org"])
# 157.192.XX.XX JP AS138384 Rakuten Mobile Network, Inc.
# the same proxy URL keeps the same exit for the 30 minutes of -time-1800
page = requests.get("https://www.yahoo.co.jp/", proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy}, timeout=30)Two of the ten exits in the 26 October 2026 sample were on OCN’s AS4713, an NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS network that also carries home lines. This loop counts them as misses; add "AS4713" to the set if they suit your job. KDDI and SoftBank carry home broadband on their ASNs as well, so an exit on AS2516 or AS17676 can be either kind of line. -time- accepts 60 to 21600 seconds.
curl -x http://gate.aeonproxy.com:7000 \
-U "ap_a1b2c3-cc-jp-sid-tyo7k2-time-1800:PASS" \
https://ipinfo.io/org
# AS9605 NTT DOCOMO, INC.
curl --socks5-hostname gate.aeonproxy.com:7001 \
-U "ap_a1b2c3-cc-jp-sid-tyo7k2-time-1800:PASS" \
https://ipinfo.io/jsonWhich proxy type
Mobile, residential or a static IP for Japan
The difference is the network behind the address and how long the address stays yours.
Mobile
Carrier exits
- Addresses on Japanese mobile networks, with the carrier visible in the ASN.
- Rotating, or one exit for up to 6 hours.
- Country key only; region and city on offer are shown in the dashboard generator.
- $3.99 → $2.19 per GB.
Mobile web, apps, mobile ads and your own social accounts.
Residential
Household lines
- 53K+ residential IPs in the pool, October 2026.
- Home networks such as KDDI, SoftBank, OCN and BIGLOBE.
- Prefecture and city targeting where available.
- $3.49 → $1.69 per GB.
Prices, listings and desktop rankings across many requests.
ISP · Datacenter
Static IPs
- One customer per IP and the same address for the whole rental.
- ISP $4.00 per IP a month; datacenter $0.50 for 3 days up to $2.00 for a month.
- The order page lists the countries with ISP and datacenter IPs.
Work that needs one fixed address for weeks.
Carrier IPs
How a Japanese carrier address behaves
Mobile operators put many subscribers behind one public IPv4 address and change those addresses on their side, so the address a site sees on your request may be in use by other phone users at the same time.
On IPv6 the carriers are well ahead of the Japanese average. APNIC rates Rakuten Mobile 94.7%, KDDI 90.3% and NTT Docomo 88.3% IPv6-capable, against 62.4% for the country. If your own site logs IPv6, expect phone visitors on those networks to arrive that way.
A login, a checkout test or any flow over several pages needs one session key held for its whole length, for example -time-1800. Single page loads can go without a session key, and every request may then leave from a different exit.
Japanese law on collecting data
The Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI), enforced by the Personal Information Protection Commission, bars obtaining personal information through deception or other improper means (Article 20). Under Article 27 personal data may go to a third party only with the person’s prior consent, apart from the exceptions the Act lists.
The Unauthorized Computer Access Act makes it a crime to sign in with another person’s ID and password or to break an access control. Copyright Act Article 30-4 allows works to be used for information analysis where nobody enjoys the expression, unless the rights holder is unreasonably harmed.
Not legal advice. Rulings from other countries: scraping court cases, 2022–2026.Free 200 MB — join our Telegram
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Japan mobile proxy questions
It sends your traffic out through an address on a Japanese mobile network, so a site sees a visitor on a phone connection in Japan. Choose it for mobile web and app testing, mobile ad checks and your own social accounts. For price and listing collection at volume, residential traffic costs less.
There is no published count of Japanese mobile IPs. Japan’s mobile networks are NTT Docomo, KDDI, SoftBank and Rakuten Mobile, and the dashboard’s Mobile page shows what is on offer when you build a login. A sample of ten Japanese exits on 26 October 2026 had six on Rakuten Mobile’s AS138384, two on NTT Docomo’s AS9605 and two on OCN’s AS4713; none were on KDDI or SoftBank.
Carrier selection exists for the US, the UK and Germany only, so a Japanese mobile login takes the country key and a session. Read the carrier from the exit: AS9605 is NTT Docomo, AS138384 Rakuten Mobile, AS2516 KDDI and AS17676 SoftBank. OCN’s AS4713 belongs to NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS and carries home lines too.
Docomo, au and SoftBank have all closed 3G, Docomo last on 31 March 2026, and the ministry counted 131.53 million 5G contracts in June 2026 against 105.81 million LTE. Which radio a phone used for your request does not show in an IP lookup.
On the mobile proxies page: $3.99 per GB from 1 GB, falling by tier to $2.19 per GB from 1,000 GB. The tier rate covers the whole purchase and the traffic never expires. Pricing compares the four products and shows the trial’s current terms.
Up to 6 hours. Add -sid- with a key you choose and -time- in seconds, from 60 to 21600; -time-21600 is six hours. A login without a session key may get a different exit on every request.
Residential fits work spread over many requests, such as Amazon.co.jp and Rakuten prices, listings and desktop rankings: 53K+ residential IPs in the pool, October 2026, at $3.49 → $1.69 per GB. Mobile costs $0.50 a GB more at each tier and suits checks that should come from a phone network, such as mobile search, apps and mobile ads.
The generator on the dashboard’s Mobile page shows which Japanese regions and cities are on offer for mobile, and city placement is where available. Confirm where an exit really is with the IP checker or the ipinfo.io call in the Python tab.
Japanese rules turn on what you collect and whose login you use: APPI for personal data, the Unauthorized Computer Access Act for accounts that are not yours. Use your own accounts within each platform’s rules and public, logged-out pages. This is not legal advice.
Yes, for accounts you own, used within the rules of LINE, X, Instagram, TikTok and the rest. Hold one sticky session per account while you work, so the address stays put between steps.
You cannot know what a free proxy’s operator logs or alters. You can check its network, though: AS9605 and AS138384 are Japanese carriers, a hosting ASN means a server, and AS2516 or AS17676 may be a KDDI or SoftBank home line.