VPS in Japan
A VPS in Tokyo, Japan, from $4 a month.
For users in Japan, Korea and Taiwan, Japan is the obvious home. It is also one of the few non-EU countries the EU recognises as protecting personal data adequately. Billed by the hour, never more than the month, paid in crypto.
- $0.006 an hourcapped at $4 a month
- Ready in minutesusually ready within 15 minutes
- DDoS filteringon every server, no add-on
- No card, no IDpay in crypto from your balance
Who hosts in Tokyo
Why put a server in Japan?
For users in Japan, Korea and Taiwan, Tokyo is home. The physics floor is 12 ms to Seoul and 29 ms to Hong Kong, and the city has three large exchanges: BBIX Tokyo with 355 networks, JPIX with 272 and JPNAP with 250.
Japan is one of the few non-EU countries the EU recognises as protecting personal data adequately, since 23 January 2019, and Japan recognises the EU in return. Data falls under the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI), supervised by the Personal Information Protection Commission.
Same price as Europe, same traffic allowance, billed by the hour. For Southeast Asia, India and Australia, Singapore is closer.
Japan at a glance
- Server location
- Tokyo, Japan
- Jurisdiction
- Not in the EU. EU and Japan have recognised each other’s data protection as adequate since 23 January 2019.
- Data protection
- Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI, Act No. 57 of 2003), supervised by the Personal Information Protection Commission.
- Main internet exchanges
- BBIX Tokyo355 networks
- JPIX Tokyo272 networks
- JPNAP Tokyo250 networks
- Closest to
- Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and East Asia, with reach across the Pacific.
Exchange figures describe the country’s internet, not which exchanges your server connects to.
Latency from Tokyo
How close is Tokyo to your users?
The physics minimum, not a marketing number. Where another of our locations is clearly closer, we say so.
- Seoul12 ms
- Hong Kong29 ms
- Almaty53 msCloser: Pakistan, 11 ms
- Jakarta58 msCloser: Singapore, 9 ms
- Mumbai67 msCloser: Pakistan, 16 ms
- Karachi69 msCloser: Pakistan, 11 ms
- Sydney78 msCloser: Singapore, 63 ms
- Dubai79 msCloser: Pakistan, 20 ms
- Warsaw86 msCloser: Lithuania, 4 ms
- Los Angeles88 msCloser: United States, 6 ms
Show all 26 cities
- Berlin89 msCloser: Germany, 4 ms
- Istanbul89 msCloser: Turkey, 0 ms
- Tel Aviv92 msCloser: Turkey, 11 ms
- Athens95 msCloser: Bulgaria, 5 ms
- Cairo96 msCloser: Turkey, 12 ms
- London96 msCloser: Netherlands, 4 ms
- Paris97 msCloser: Luxembourg, 3 ms
- Rome99 msCloser: Bulgaria, 9 ms
- Chicago101 msCloser: United States, 30 ms
- Toronto103 msCloser: United States, 36 ms
- Madrid108 msCloser: Luxembourg, 13 ms
- New York108 msCloser: United States, 41 ms
- Mexico City113 msCloser: United States, 30 ms
- Johannesburg135 msCloser: Turkey, 75 ms
- Lagos135 msCloser: Bulgaria, 45 ms
- São Paulo185 msCloser: Luxembourg, 97 ms
The fastest a round trip from Tokyo could ever be: light in fibre covers about 200 km per millisecond, over the straight-line distance. Real routes are longer and add equipment, so expect more. We only suggest another location when it saves at least 10 ms, and some neighbouring countries don’t connect directly, so a closer location can still be slower. Hourly billing makes it cheap to test both.
Plans in Tokyo
Every size, deployed in Tokyo.
Same price as every other country. Hourly never goes above the monthly cap, and a Keep year costs less than twelve months.
| Plan | vCPU | RAM | NVMe | Traffic | Hourly | Monthly cap | Keep a year | Deploy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lite 2 | 2 | 2 GB | 40 GB NVMe | 1 TB | $0.006 | $4 | $40 | Deploy Lite 2 in Tokyo |
| Lite 6 | 6 | 6 GB | 100 GB NVMe | 2 TB | $0.012 | $8 | $80 | Deploy Lite 6 in Tokyo |
| Lite 8 | 8 | 8 GB | 160 GB NVMe | 3 TB | $0.018 | $12 | $120 | Deploy Lite 8 in Tokyo |
| Lite 16 | 16 | 16 GB | 320 GB NVMe | 4 TB | $0.03 | $20 | $220 | Deploy Lite 16 in Tokyo |
| Lite 32 | 16 | 32 GB | 640 GB NVMe | 6 TB | $0.06 | $40 | $440 | Deploy Lite 32 in Tokyo |
| Lite 64 | 24 | 64 GB | 1,280 GB NVMe | 8 TB | $0.12 | $80 | $880 | Deploy Lite 64 in Tokyo |
| Lite 96 | 32 | 96 GB | 1,920 GB NVMe | 10 TB | $0.18 | $120 | $1,320 | Deploy Lite 96 in Tokyo |
| Lite 128 | 40 | 128 GB | 2,560 GB NVMe | 12 TB | $0.24 | $160 | $1,760 | Deploy Lite 128 in Tokyo |
| Lite 192 | 48 | 192 GB | 3,840 GB NVMe | 14 TB | $0.36 | $240 | $2,640 | Deploy Lite 192 in Tokyo |
| Lite 256 | 64 | 256 GB | 5,120 GB NVMe | 16 TB | $0.48 | $320 | $3,520 | Deploy Lite 256 in Tokyo |
More ways to host in Tokyo
Pay for a year, get months free.
From $40 a year
Deploy a Keep 2 in TokyoPay once, keep the server.
From $140 once
Deploy a Forever Keep 1 in Tokyo32 TB of traffic a month.
From $8 a month
Deploy a Traffic Lite 2 in TokyoUp to 3 TB of NVMe storage.
From $10 a month
Deploy a Vault 2 in TokyoNVIDIA GPU slices, by the hour.
From $40 a month
Deploy a Forge L4 in Tokyo
Prices exclude VAT, which applies to EU consumers. Traffic counts outbound only, and the allowances of all your servers add up into one pool. Full pricing.
Good fits
What to run in Tokyo.
Three jobs that suit Japan, and the plan we would start each one on. Delete any time and billing stops.
Japanese-language sites and shops
Served from Tokyo, with six vCPUs and 6 GB of RAM.
Lite 6$8/mo
Deploy Lite 6 in TokyoGame servers for East Asia
Players in Japan and Korea, with Seoul close by. Sixteen vCPUs and 16 GB of RAM.
Lite 16$20/mo
Deploy Lite 16 in TokyoAPIs for the Asia-Pacific region
An endpoint for East Asian users, billed by the hour.
Lite 8$12/mo
Deploy Lite 8 in Tokyo
How it works
From payment to root in Tokyo.
No sales call, no paperwork. One crypto deposit funds every server you run, in any of our countries.
Create an account
An email address and a password, plus your country for VAT. No name, no phone number, no ID.
Add funds in crypto
From $20, in Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, USDC, Solana, BNB, XRP or Monero. Your first deposit picks up the launch bonus by itself.
Pick the plan in Tokyo
Choose an image, add your SSH key or take a root password, and deploy. Billing starts when the server is ready.
Log in and build
Your server is usually ready within 15 minutes. Full root access, an IPv4 address and DDoS filtering come with it.
Japan questions
Before you pick Tokyo.
Is Tokyo or Singapore better for Korea and Hong Kong?
For Korea, Tokyo: Seoul is 12 ms from Tokyo against 47 ms from Singapore. For Hong Kong they are close (29 ms from Tokyo, 26 ms from Singapore). For Southeast Asia, India and Australia, Singapore wins.
Can EU businesses send personal data to a server in Japan?
The EU has recognised Japan as protecting personal data adequately since 23 January 2019, and Japan recognises the EU in return. That simplifies transfers; your own obligations still depend on the data you handle.
Is Tokyo good for users in the United States?
Only for the West Coast and the Pacific: Los Angeles is 88 ms from Tokyo, while our San Francisco location is 6 ms away. For the rest of the US, choose San Francisco.
Is Tokyo good for Southeast Asia?
Singapore is closer: Jakarta is 9 ms from Singapore against 58 ms from Tokyo. Tokyo wins for Korea and Japan.
Does a server here cost more than in other countries?
No. Every plan costs the same in all 15 of our countries, with the same traffic allowance, billed by the hour and never more than the monthly price.
Nearby countries
VPS in Singapore
VPS in the United States
VPS in PakistanRun more than one country
One balance pays for servers anywhere we operate, at the same price. A second server in Singapore is the simplest backup plan there is.
Your server in Tokyo.One crypto payment away.
Lites from $4 a month, usually ready within 15 minutes. Pay by the hour, never more than the month.