⚡ IP Geolocation APIs in Japan

IP Geolocation services determine the approximate location of a user based on their IP address, providing data such as country, region, city, and Internet service provider.

Japan is an East Asian country with a population of around 125 million people.

According to our research, IP geolocation APIs are detected on 0.05% of websites from Japan.

Statistics based on 200K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top geolocation services in Japan in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is ipify with a share of 27.5%, followed by ipapi.co with 22.5% and IPinfo with 22.5%.

ipify 27.5%
ipapi.co 22.5%
IPinfo 22.5%
MaxMind 13.7%
GeoJS 10.8%
DB-IP 3.9%
IP-API 2%
🗺️ Jsonip 2%
ipgeolocation.io 2%
ipdata 1%
IP2Location 1%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top services that are more popular in Japan than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

1. ipify ^(-3)
2. ipapi.co ^(-1)
4. MaxMind ^(-1)
6. DB-IP ^(-4)
8. 🗺️ Jsonip ^(-4)
9. ipgeolocation.io ^(-2)

✨ Best Geolocation Services

Below is a more detailed list of 11 geolocation services used on sites from Japan, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	ipify Texas, United States An API service that provides a free IP address API and a paid IP geolocation API. Free$15+/month	27.5%
2	ipapi.co Henderson, Nevada, United States An IP geolocation service that provides REST APIs for retrieving location and network information about IP addresses. Free$15+/month	22.5%
3	IPinfo Seattle, Washington, United States An IP address intelligence service that provides free and paid APIs for retrieving geolocation, network, company, and privacy data for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Free$49+/month	22.5%
4	MaxMind Malden, Massachusetts, United States A provider of IP address intelligence, geolocation and fraud detection tools. Free$374+/year	13.7%
5	GeoJS Australia A REST-based IP geolocation service that provides APIs without authentication or rate limits. Free	10.8%
6	DB-IP Perros-Guirec, France A geolocation service that provides IP Geolocation API and downloadable databases to determine a user's location. Free€49.90+/year	3.9%
7	IP-API Bucharest, Romania An IP geolocation API that offers a limited free tier and a paid pro service. Free€13.3/month	2%
8	🗺️ Jsonip Seattle, Washington, United States A free API that returns a client's IP address (IPv4 or IPv6) as a JSON object. Free	2%
9	ipgeolocation.io Citra, Florida, United States Provides an IP Geolocation API that is free for non-commercial use up to 30K requests per month. Free$19+/month	2%
10	ipdata Newark, Delaware, United States Provides an IP Geolocation and Threat Intelligence API. Free$10+/month	1%
11	IP2Location Bayan Baru, Malaysia A geolocation service that provides databases and a real-time API to determine a user's location. Free$99+/year	1%

👉 See Also

🌎 Geolocation in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 200,901 websites from Japan.
We currently track the presence of 14 geolocation services across the web.
Of these, 11 were detected on websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on September 8, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.