⚡ 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.
Japan is an East Asian country with a population of around 125 million people.
According to our data, payment services are detected on 2.2% of websites from Japan.
⭐ Most Popular in 2026
The following chart shows the top payment services on websites in Japan in 2026, based on market share.
The most popular is Shop Pay with an impressive share of 33.8%, followed by
PayPal with 26.2% and
PayPay with 17.3%.
Shop Pay 33.8%
PayPal 26.2%
PayPay 17.3%
Amazon Pay 15.2%Visa 9.4%
Stripe 9%
Rakuten Pay 7%
Mastercard 6.3%
American Express 5.5%
Paidy 4.2%
Discover 1.4%
Google Pay 1.2%
Apple Pay 1.2%
PayPal Enterprise Payments 1.1%
- Adyen 0.6%
🚀 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.
Shop Pay (-1)
- 3.
PayPay (-33)
- 4.
Amazon Pay (-11) - 7.
Rakuten Pay (-59)
- 10.
Paidy (-70)
- 11.
Discover (-5)
- 15. Adyen (-5)
- 16.
Alipay (-30) - 19.
Line Pay (-109)
- 21.
Link (-2)
✨ Best Payment Services
Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 63 payment services used on sites from Japan, ranked by their market share.
🗃️ 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 171,078 websites from Japan.
- We currently track the presence of 136 payment services across the web.
- Of these, 63 were detected on websites from Japan.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.
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