Asia
SMS to JapanOne rate for Japan, $0.0177, from the first message to the millionth. Unicode segments for the local script, registered name or shared sender, handset receipts. Funded in crypto, without identity checks.
01Rate
At $0.0177 per segment, Japan sits among the cheaper routes in Asia: 9th of 32 destinations by price, 55% below the regional average. Worldwide, 76 destinations are cheaper and 151 cost more.
| Messages | Cost | Elsewhere from |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $17.70 | $38.00 |
| 10,000 | $177.00 | $380.00 |
| 100,000 | $1,770.00 | $3,800.00 |
| 1,000,000 | $17,700.00 | $38,000.00 |
Closest in price nearby: Singapore ($0.0177), Philippines ($0.0163), Maldives ($0.0154).
02Route notes
Traffic to Japan terminates on NTT Docomo, KDDI au, SoftBank and Rakuten. They deliver alphanumeric senders only after registration; until then your messages leave from a shared numeric sender, and support prepares the registration file with you. Delivery rates and receipt behaviour are measured per operator, and the report names the reason whenever one of them rejects a message.
Because the local alphabet is not in the GSM-7 set, messages to Japan are billed in Unicode segments of 70 characters (67 per part when concatenated). Codes, alerts and short confirmations fit in one.
The default delivery window for Japan runs from 09:00 to 21:00, local time; schedule by local hour and the campaign opens when Japan does. International format uses +81: +81 489 721 288.
Operators in Japan return handset delivery receipts, so delivered means the phone received the message, usually within seconds.
03Sender ID
Operators here require alphanumeric senders to be registered before they deliver them. While the registration is pending, messages go out from a shared numeric sender; once approved, your name is used. Support handles the file with you.
Registration required
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05Nearby
06Questions, answered
Delivery receipts are available on this route: every message ends as delivered, failed or expired, with the carrier code on failures.
$177.00 at $0.0177 per segment, the same unit price as for one message or one million. At the lower price published by the crypto-paid gateways we track, the same send would cost about $380.00.
Operators here require alphanumeric senders to be registered before they deliver them. While the registration is pending, messages go out from a shared numeric sender; once approved, your name is used. Support handles the file with you.
Yes: marketing traffic is held outside 09:00 to 21:00 local time by default. Transactional messages can bypass the window, and the default is editable per campaign.
Expect Unicode encoding for Japan: 70 characters (67 per part when concatenated) per part rather than 160. Long confirmations are still fine, they simply use more segments, and the cost preview reflects it.
NTT Docomo, KDDI au, SoftBank and Rakuten, with delivery rate and receipt behaviour measured for each.
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