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Japanese whisky prices: Japan vs abroad

Read each price by its label first. Official MSRP is not a shop transaction price. Markup is calculated only when we have both an observed Japanese price and an observed overseas price. Missing observations stay “not checked” rather than becoming a zero or an estimate.

Japan observations use JPY. Overseas observations on this page use USD. A source/date/context, bottle volume and tax basis are shown with every value; older records that did not capture tax explicitly say “tax basis not recorded.”

Not enough paired prices yet to plot anything meaningful.

No complete pair of observed Japan and overseas prices is available yet. MSRP-only rows are still useful reference points, but they are not used to calculate markup.

How to read the comparison

• MSRP: a producer-published suggested price. It is not evidence that a shop sold the bottle at that amount.
• Observed shop / shelf: a dated price actually recorded from a retail source. Only observed pairs can produce a markup multiple.
• Duty-free and secondary market: labelled separately because they are different markets from ordinary shelf stock.
• Bottle size matters: many Japan records are 700ml while US listings are often 750ml. The table shows the stored size, or the site's 700/750ml comparison basis when an older record lacks an explicit size field.

FX-only conversions use ¥150/$ as of 2026-08. This is a fixed declared rate, not a live quote and not an overseas retail observation.