⚡ Geolocation 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, geolocation tools are used on 0.04% of websites from Japan.

Statistics based on 160K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is ipify with a share of 27.1%, followed by MaxMind with 21.4% and ipapi.co with 17.1%.

ipify 27.1%
MaxMind 21.4%
ipapi.co 17.1%
IPinfo 17.1%
GeoJS 10%
DB-IP 7.1%
🗺️ Jsonip 2.9%
ipgeolocation.io 2.9%
IP-API 1.4%
IP2Location 1.4%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. ipify ^(-2)
2. MaxMind ^(-3)
3. ipapi.co ^(-1)
6. DB-IP ^(-5)
7. 🗺️ Jsonip ^(-3)
8. ipgeolocation.io ^(-4)

✨ Best Geolocation Tools

Below is a more detailed list of 10 geolocation tools 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	27.1%
2	MaxMind Malden, Massachusetts, United States A provider of IP address intelligence, geolocation and fraud detection tools. Free$374+/year	21.4%
3	ipapi.co Henderson, Nevada, United States Provides a REST API to find the location of an IP address. Free$15+/month	17.1%
4	IPinfo Seattle, Washington, United States A data service that provides IP address information via free and paid APIs. Free$49+/month	17.1%
5	GeoJS Australia A highly available REST/JSON/JSONP IP Geolocation lookup API. Free	10%
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	7.1%
7	🗺️ 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%
8	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	2.9%
9	IP-API Bucharest, Romania An IP geolocation API that offers a limited free tier and a paid pro service. Free€13.3/month	1.4%
10	IP2Location Bayan Baru, Malaysia A geolocation service that provides databases and a real-time API to determine a user's location. Free$99+/year	1.4%

👉 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 160,338 websites from Japan.
We currently track the presence of 14 geolocation tools across the web.
Of these, 10 were detected on websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.