How to buy from Rakuma from overseas
Rakuma is Rakuten's flea-market app — the same individual-seller, secondhand model as Mercari, but with a smaller user base. That often means slightly lower prices and less competition for the same item.
You need our Shopping Service
This shop will not deliver outside Japan and generally will not accept a foreign card or a forwarding address. Send us the product link and we buy it in our own name, receive it at our warehouse, then ship it to you.
How our shopping service works · How parcel forwarding works · Fees
What to know before you order from Rakuma
- Always worth checking when something on Mercari is sold out or has been priced up — the identical item is often still listed here.
- Sellers ship domestically only, so a Japanese delivery address is required either way.
- Offers work the same as on Mercari; tell us your limit and we will negotiate.
Worth knowing
Listings move more slowly than Mercari, but stock information can be stale — a seller who has stopped using the app may never dispatch, in which case the order is cancelled and refunded.
How it works
- Send the link or place the order. Paste the product URL into your account and we quote the total, including our commission, before anything is bought.
- We receive and check it. Your item arrives at our Osaka warehouse, where we photograph it and record its weight and dimensions. Storage is free for the first 30 days.
- Combine with anything else. Keep shopping at other stores. Everything waiting in your warehouse can go into a single parcel, so you pay international shipping once rather than once per shop.
- We pack and ship. Choose your carrier and we repack to remove wasted space, quote the exact rate, and send it with tracking.
What shipping will cost
Shipping is charged on the packed parcel, not per item, so the cost depends on where it is going and what it weighs. Real rates by weight for each destination:
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