⚡ Payments in Japan

Online payment services allow businesses to securely accept and process transactions by supporting a variety of payment methods such as credit and debit cards, digital wallets, and Buy Now, Pay Later options.

According to our data, payment systems are detected on 1.3% of websites from Japan.

⭐ Most Popular in 2025

The following chart shows the top payment systems on websites in Japan in 2025, based on market share.

The most popular is PayPal with a share of 26.8%, followed by PayPay with 24.2% and Amazon Pay with 16.3%.

PayPal 26.8%
PayPay 24.2%
Amazon Pay 16.3%
Stripe 13.4%
Visa 10.6%
Shop Pay 9.2%
Rakuten Pay 7.7%
Mastercard 7.2%
American Express 6.4%
Paidy 4.2%
PayPal Enterprise Payments 1.8%
Google Pay 1.3%
Apple Pay 1.3%
Adyen 1%
Line Pay 0.9%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. PayPay ^(-33)
3. Amazon Pay ^(-12)
7. Rakuten Pay ^(-61)
10. Paidy ^(-72)
14. Adyen ^(-4)
15. Line Pay ^(-104)
16. Square ^(-1)
19. WebMoney ^(-7)
20. Link ^(-1)
24. Gumroad ^(-8)

✨ Best Payment Systems

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 55 payment systems used on sites from Japan, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	PayPal San Jose, California, United States An online payment service that allows users to send funds from a credit card, bank account, or PayPal balance to merchants without sharing their financial details. $$$	26.8%
2	PayPay Tokyo, Japan A Japanese mobile payment service.	24.2%
3	Amazon Pay Seattle, Washington, United States Lets Amazon customers to pay on your website using the information already stored in their Amazon accounts. Free$0.30+	16.3%
4	Stripe San Francisco, California, United States A payments processing platform that helps businesses accept online, mobile, and in-store payments with a single integration. $$$	13.4%
5	Visa San Francisco, California, United States A global payment network processor that enables banks, merchants, and cardholders to conduct debit, credit, and prepaid transactions across more than 200 countries and territories.	10.6%
-	Shop Pay Ottawa, Ontario, Canada A one-tap checkout and payment method developed by Shopify. Free$$$	9.2%
7	Rakuten Pay Tokyo, Japan A Japanese mobile payment and digital wallet platform that allows users to make quick payments by scanning QR codes. Free	7.7%
8	Mastercard Purchase, New York, United States A global payment-network processor that connects merchants, banks and card-holders for debit, credit and prepaid payments.	7.2%
9	American Express New York, United States A global payment network and card issuer that provides charge, credit, and prepaid cards.	6.4%
10	Paidy San Jose, California, United States A Japanese "buy now, pay later" payment service.	4.2%
11	PayPal Enterprise Payments San Jose, California, United States A full-stack payments platform that makes it easy for businesses to accept payments in their apps or websites. $$$	1.8%
12	Google Pay Mountain View, California, United States A mobile payment service developed by Google that allows users to make payments using Android phones, tablets, or watches. Free	1.3%
13	Apple Pay Cupertino, California, United States A mobile payment service by Apple that is supported on iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro. Free	1.3%
14	Adyen Amsterdam, Netherlands A payment gateway, processor, and acquirer in one financial technology platform. $0.13+/transaction	1%
15	Line Pay Tokyo, Japan A Japanese mobile payment and digital wallet service that allows users to easily transfer funds and make payments.	0.9%
16	Square Oakland, California, United States A payment processor that enables businesses to accept cards from customers to pay for goods and services. Free$49+/month	0.9%
17	Klarna Stockholm, Sweden A Swedish payment service provider and licensed bank that specializes in Buy Now, Pay Later options for online and in-store purchases. $$$	0.9%
18	Arcot Palo Alto, United States A payment authentication network powered by 3-D Secure (3DS).	0.7%
19	WebMoney Moscow, Russia A Russian online payment system.	0.6%
20	Link San Francisco, California, United States A one-click checkout feature from Stripe that allows shoppers to securely save and reuse their payment and shipping information across participating online merchants. $$$	0.6%
-	Discover Riverwoods, Illinois, United States A global payment network and card issuer offering credit and debit cards as well as processing services.	0.6%
22	Wirecard Aschheim, Bavaria, Germany A full-service provider for merchants, offering POS infrastructure, payment processing and acquiring services.	0.6%
23	Worldline La Défense, France A European provider of payment and transaction services.	0.6%
24	Gumroad San Francisco, California, United States An e-commerce platform serving as a merchant of record that enables creators and digital entrepreneurs to sell digital products, memberships, and other goods directly to their audience. $$$	0.5%
25	Neteller London, United Kingdom A global payments platform and digital wallet used to transfer money to and from merchants, such as forex trading brokers, social networks, and gambling websites.	0.5%

👉 See Also

🌎 Payments in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 127,174 websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on December 14, 2025.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.