Gold Price in Japan (JPY)
What gold actually costs in Japan
Real dealer prices — not spot converted to JPY — with the premium over international spot as a first-class field.
Japan dealer gold prices are tracked from 1 source, priced in JPY, with the premium over international spot computed per quote.
Dealer quotes
| Source | Brand | Product | Sell | Buyback | Premium |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tanaka_jp | Tanaka | retail gram | 23,832 | 23,476 | 10.84% |
What is premium over spot?
Premium over spot is the percentage gap between a dealer's quoted sell price and the international spot price, converted to JPYat the live exchange rate. It captures dealer margin, import costs, refining, and local demand — the reason two dealers in the same city can quote different prices for the same purity of gold. A higher premium means you're paying more above the raw metal value; this API surfaces it as a first-class field (premium_over_spot_bps) for every quote instead of leaving buyers to compute it themselves.
Gold in Japan
Tanaka Kikinzoku is Japan's best-known precious-metals retailer and its published retail rate functions as the de facto national benchmark, the way DGJG does for the UAE. Japan is a single-source-per-country case: one authoritative, well-established benchmark rather than a fragmented dealer landscape, and both sell and buyback prices are published, which most other markets in this feed do not offer.
Convention: National retail benchmark (Tanaka Kikinzoku) with both sell and buyback prices quoted per gram.
Other countries
Frequently asked
Why is Japan tracked from a single source?
Tanaka Kikinzoku's published rate is a national retail benchmark that most Japanese buyers and sellers reference directly — a single authoritative source is the honest shape here, not a gap in coverage.Does the Japan feed include buyback prices?
Yes. Japan is one of the few countries in this feed where both sell and buyback prices are published by the source, letting the API surface the full bid/ask-style spread.