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Shopify stores in Japan — almost no dropship, a high floor

20,445 stores. 198 flagged dropship (1.0%). Median modeled revenue is $6,277 — three orders of magnitude above the US median. Average visits are 7,113. Search demand for ドロップシッピング is 4,000/mo. The catalog does not match that curiosity: Japan’s Shopify scene in this index is brands, character goods, and coffee, not a one-product pile.

20,445

stores tagged Japan

1.0%

dropship share (198 shops)

$6,277

median modeled revenue / mo

Daiso, Chiikawa, BAPE

daisonet.com is the visit head (14.5M). mix.tokyo and cocacoca.jp are clothing. chiikawamarket.jp is character goods. bape.com is tagged “kids” in this snapshot — treat it as the brand. Zero of these five are dropship flags. Average modeled revenue on active Japanese clothing is $224k. That is a different planet from US clothing ($23k) in the same pull method.

01

daisonet.com

Home / variety

14.5M visits/mo
02

mix.tokyo

Clothing

2.4M visits/mo
03

chiikawamarket.jp

Character goods

2.3M visits/mo
04

cocacoca.jp

Women's clothing

2.1M visits/mo
05

bape.com

Apparel brand

2.0M visits/mo

Source: EcomScout catalog, pulled 2026-09-04. GET /v1/stores?countryCode=JP&sort=visits&minVisits=20000.

Coffee is on the board

154 active coffee shops. That vertical does not make the top ten in the US, UK, or DE cuts we pulled the same day. Jewelry (178) and skincare (166) are present. Apparel dropship count in this grouped row is 3.

Active Japanese stores by vertical (≥500 visits/mo)stores
Clothing374
Apparel329
Consumer Electronics252
Home Decor233
Clothing + Accessories181
Jewelry178
Skincare166
Coffee154

Source: EcomScout catalog, pulled 2026-09-04. GET /v1/stores?countryCode=JP&groupBy=vertical&minVisits=500. Unclassified (731) omitted from the chart — Japan has a higher untagged share.

“shopify” is 62k in Japan. Dropship is curiosity, not inventory

Ahrefs JP: bare “shopify” is 62,000/mo (KD 7). “ドロップシッピング” is 4,000/mo (KD 1). “shopify 日本” is 250. “ネットショップ 一覧” (online shop list) is 200. The catalog says 1% dropship. The search box says people still ask. We show both.

Ahrefs · Google JP
QueryVol / moKDCPC
shopify62,0007$1.50
ドロップシッピング4,0001$0.35
shopify 日本2503$1.30
ネットショップ 一覧2001$0.45

Source: Ahrefs Keywords Explorer. Keywords Explorer, country=jp, 2026-09-04.

JP asks

“Japanese coffee brands on Shopify, email or Instagram.”

“Character-goods stores tagged JP over 50k visits.”

“JP clothing with modeled revenue over $50k/mo, not dropship.”

How the numbers were calculated

  • Country totals: Neonjelly get_countries / GET /v1/analytics/countries. Dropship % = round(1000 × dropshippers / stores) / 10.
  • Vertical bars: GET /v1/stores?countryCode=JP&groupBy=vertical&minVisits=500. Floor drops parked shops. (unclassified) omitted from charts. storeCount is shops that clear the floor, not the unfiltered country total.
  • Mean vs median modeled revenue: catalog fields on the unfiltered country row. A fat head (US $15.6k mean / $8 median) is why we print both when the gap is the story.
  • Keyword tables: Ahrefs Keywords Explorer, country-local Google volume (12-month average), KD 0–100, CPC in USD (API returns cents; we divide by 100). Pulled 2026-09-04. We do not invent volumes.

Source: EcomScout catalog, pulled 2026-09-04. Catalog snapshot 2026-09-04. Ahrefs cited on each keyword table.

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