Shopify Stores in Japan

There are 36,644 live Shopify stores in Japan.

In this report, we'll cover the following essential statistics on Shopify stores in Japan.

• Shopify growth in Japan
• Top categories for Shopify stores in Japan
• Social media usage on Shopify stores in Japan
• Contact information on Shopify stores in Japan
• Shopify Plus Stores in Japan
• Provinces with the most Shopify stores in Japan
• Cities with the most Shopify stores in Japan
• Top Shopify apps in Japan
• Number of employees for Shopify stores in Japan
• Top shipping carriers for Shopify stores in Japan
• Top-level domain distribution for Shopify stores in Japan
• Top Shopify stores in Japan

Shopify Growth in Japan

Shopify's worldwide quarter-over-quarter growth has been quite impressive over the last few years, and that trend is visible within most countries.

• Shopify stores in Japan increased 1.4% quarter-over-quarter in 2024 Q3.
• Shopify stores in Japan increased 18% year-over-year in 2024 Q3.

Here is Shopify's quarter-over-quarter growth in Japan.

Note: the store counts displayed in this section are based on actual historical store counts.

It's hard to know exactly when a Shopify store was first created but we use a heuristic combining DNS and WHOIS data that provides a reasonable approximation.

Top Categories For Shopify Stores In Japan

Here is the breakdown of industry verticals for Shopify stores in Japan.

• 3.3% of Shopify stores in Japan sell Apparel products.
• 1.7% of Shopify stores in Japan sell Food & Drink products.
• 1.2% of Shopify stores in Japan sell Home & Garden products.

Social Media Usage On Shopify Stores In Japan

Ecommerce brands use social media sites to engage with millions of consumers. Instagram and Facebook are the dominant social media sites for ecommerce stores, by far, with Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube also having notable usage.

• Instagram is used by 57.2% of Shopify stores in Japan.
• Facebook is used by 23.2% of Shopify stores in Japan.
• Twitter is used by 21.0% of Shopify stores in Japan.

Contact Information On Shopify Stores In Japan

Email remains an extremely popular communication channel for merchants. Many merchants also provide a phone number so that their customers can reach them instantly.

• 49% of Shopify stores in Japan provide a phone number on their website
• 45% of Shopify stores in Japan have an email on their website

Shopify Plus Stores In Japan

There are 588 Shopify Plus stores in Japan. For more information on Shopify Plus, read our Shopify Plus report.

Provinces With The Most Shopify Stores In Japan

It's relatively easy to identify the country in which an ecommerce store operates. However, very few ecommerce stores provide a location to the province-level or city-level and even fewer provide a street address.

Here is the province distribution of Shopify stores in Japan. Note that we're only showing the top 15 locations here but you can see the full list within Store Leads.

• 15,475 Shopify stores in Japan are based in Tokyo.
• 3,032 Shopify stores in Japan are based in Osaka.
• 1,946 Shopify stores in Japan are based in Kanagawa.

Cities With The Most Shopify Stores in Japan

Here is the city distribution of Shopify stores in Japan. Note that we're only showing the top 15 locations here but you can see the full list within Store Leads.

• 3,294 Shopify stores in Japan are based in Shibuya City.
• 2,606 Shopify stores in Japan are based in Minato City.
• 2,099 Shopify stores in Japan are based in Unknown.

Top Shopify Apps in Japan

Here are the top 10 apps, ordered by number of installs, across all Shopify stores in Japan.

With a paid account on Store Leads, you'll be able to see which stores have installed specific apps. You can also see when specific apps were installed (or uninstalled) by each store.

Number of Employees for Shopify stores in Japan

• 97.4% of Shopify stores in Japan have Unknown employees.
• 0.9% of Shopify stores in Japan have 1 - 9 employees.
• 0.4% of Shopify stores in Japan have 10 - 24 employees.

Here is the breakdown of Shopify stores in Japan by the number of employees.

Top Shipping Carriers For Shopify Stores In Japan

• 4.8% of Shopify stores in Japan ship by Japan Post.
• 3.5% of Shopify stores in Japan ship by Yamato Transport.
• 2.0% of Shopify stores in Japan ship by Sagawa Express.

Here are the top shipping carriers for Shopify stores in Japan.

Top-level Domain Distribution For Shopify Stores In Japan

.com is the most common top-level domain, by far, for world-wide Shopify stores. Some countries have been faster than others to adopt alternate (such as country-specific) top-level domains.

• 54.8% of Shopify stores in Japan have a .com domain.
• 22.8% of Shopify stores in Japan have a .jp domain.
• 5.9% of Shopify stores in Japan have a .co.jp domain.

Here is the top-level domain distribution for Shopify stores in Japan.

Top Shopify Stores In Japan

Here are the top stores in Japan ordered by worldwide store rank.

Get more insights on Shopify stores

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You can segment stores on a variety of dimensions:

• Social Media accounts
• Email address
• Phone numbers
• Country
• Installed Apps
• Theme and Theme Vendor
• Number of Products Sold
• Third-party technologies
• Creation date
• Platform
• Top-level domains
• Domain status
• Domain type

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Other Reports

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• The State of Shopify
• Most Installed Shopify Apps