Japan Hobby & Collectibles Prices (駿河屋 Suruga-ya)

Live hobby & collectibles prices from Suruga-ya (suruga-ya.jp) — Japan's biggest new+used hobby retailer: new price, used price, stock status, marketplace low price, release date and maker, in a clean English schema.

This Actor searches the public product listings on suruga-ya.jp by keyword and/or category and returns each item as English-schema JSON: item title, item-type label (フィギュア / トレカ / …), Suruga-ya's own new-condition and used-condition prices (JPY), the primary (cheapest own-stock) price with its condition, the original list price (定価), the cheapest third-party marketplace (マケプレ) offer and offer count, in-stock flag, release date (ISO), maker/publisher, image URL and product URL. Optional in-stock and price-range filters are applied client-side.

Suruga-ya (run by A-Too Inc.) is the reference price source for Japanese second-hand hobby goods — figures, retro games, trading cards, anime merchandise, doujinshi, hobby books — but it is Japanese-only and invisible to most international tooling. This Actor is the bridge for price research, sourcing and arbitrage.

Unofficial tool. Not affiliated with or endorsed by 株式会社エーツー (A-Too Inc.) or Suruga-ya (駿河屋). It collects publicly available data only (no login, no paywall), politely (strictly serial requests spaced 30 seconds apart — the Crawl-delay the site's robots.txt asks of all bots —, hard per-run budget, no block evasion), fetches only URLs the site's robots.txt leaves open to general bots, and extracts item facts only — no marketplace seller names, no review content, no personal data (relevant e.g. under GDPR: no personal data is collected or processed). Users are responsible for ensuring their own use of the data complies with the source site's terms and applicable law.

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Quick start — verified input

Copy-paste this into the Actor's input (JSON tab) or pass it via API — it was run successfully on 2026-09-02 (10 Gundam items in the toys category with own-stock and marketplace prices, ~30 seconds; the default RESIDENTIAL JP proxy is applied automatically):

{
  "keyword": "ガンダム",
  "category": "toys",
  "maxItems": 10
}

Common input mistakes

Wrong	Right	Why
{} / both keyword and category empty	{"keyword": "ガンダム"}	With neither, the run falls back to the default keyword フィギュア with a warning.
"keyword": "gundam"	"keyword": "ガンダム"	Japanese keywords match far more items.
"category": "figures" / "Manga" in the UI	"category": "toys" / "comics"	Use a slug from the list (via API common aliases and Japanese labels are mapped; unknown values list all slugs).
"maxItems": 500 with the default budget	"maxItems": 240, "maxApiRequests": 10	24 items per request, 30 s apart — 500 items would need 21 requests (~10 minutes).
"proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false }	keep the default (RESIDENTIAL, country JP)	suruga-ya.jp answers HTTP 403 to datacenter IPs; the default residential proxy is required.
"priceMin": "1,000円"	"priceMin": 1000	Integers in JPY (via API a string with ¥/commas is tolerated).

Every invalid value stops the run immediately (before any upstream request) with a message that names the field and lists the valid values. Fields with a fixed list of values are validated by the Apify platform before the run even starts.

Empty results?

A run that finishes with items: 0 and complete: true is not an error. Typical causes: inStockOnly: true for items Suruga-ya only lists via marketplace sellers, a category that does not contain the keyword's items (e.g. books + ガンプラ), or a tight price window with the default request budget (filters are client-side — raise maxApiRequests, remembering the 30 s spacing). Widen the query and re-run.

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Who is this for?

• Overseas collectors & proxy-buying services — know the fair Japanese market price for figures, trading cards, retro games and anime goods before buying or quoting; Suruga-ya prices are the domestic benchmark that Zenmarket/Buyee-style flows check by hand today.
• Resellers & arbitrage — new vs used vs marketplace price spreads per item, stock status, and the original list price for margin math.
• Price-tracking & market tools — a stable English schema over a Japanese-only source; re-run on a schedule for time series.
• Market research — release dates, makers and price levels across an entire franchise or category in one run.

Sample output (dataset item)

{
  "itemTitle": "ガンダム アーカイヴス PG UNLEASHED νガンダム編",
  "itemType": "アニメムック",
  "categoryId": null,
  "category": null,
  "priceJpy": 3800,
  "condition": "used",
  "priceNewJpy": 4400,
  "priceUsedJpy": 3800,
  "listPriceJpy": 4400,
  "marketplacePriceJpy": 3211,
  "marketplaceOfferCount": 7,
  "inStock": true,
  "releaseDate": "2026-07-14",
  "maker": "大日本絵画",
  "imageUrl": "https://www.suruga-ya.jp/database/photo.php?shinaban=185285927&size=m",
  "itemUrl": "https://www.suruga-ya.jp/product/detail/185285927",
  "source": "駿河屋 (suruga-ya.jp search listings)",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.suruga-ya.jp/",
  "license": "Publicly available data — unofficial tool; users are responsible for compliance with the source site's terms",
  "retrievedAt": "2026-08-25T13:12:44.000Z"
}

priceJpy is Suruga-ya's cheapest own-stock price and condition says whether that price is for the new or used copy; priceNewJpy / priceUsedJpy carry both when both exist. inStock refers to Suruga-ya's own stock; items the site shows as 品切れ (out of stock) come with priceJpy: null but often still carry a marketplacePriceJpy — the cheapest third-party marketplace offer. listPriceJpy is the original retail price (定価).

Input reference

{
  "keyword": "ガンダム",
  "category": "toys",
  "inStockOnly": true,
  "priceMin": 1000,
  "priceMax": 50000,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxApiRequests": 10
}

keyword and/or category (Japanese keywords match best; with neither, the actor falls back to フィギュア with a warning). category takes a slug — games, portable-games, nintendo-switch, playstation5, anime, movies, tokusatsu, toys, hobby, dolls, radio-control, minicars, books, comics, magazines, pamphlets, doujinshi, doujin-soft, av-equipment, home-appliances, cameras — or any numeric suruga-ya.jp category id (the category value in the site's search URLs; useful for finer subcategories like specific consoles). For figures and trading cards, keyword search (フィギュア, トレカ, a franchise name) works best. The in-stock and price filters are applied client-side after fetching — the equivalent URL parameters are disallowed by the site's robots.txt, and this Actor strictly requests only robots-permitted URLs. Tight filters therefore discard part of what was fetched; raise maxApiRequests if a filtered run comes back incomplete.

Pricing

Pay per result — see the pricing tab. One upstream page holds 24 items.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? Live from the public, login-free search listing pages on suruga-ya.jp at run time. Every record embeds the source, source URL, a license note, and the retrieval timestamp.

Is this an official Suruga-ya / A-Too service? No. Unofficial, independently built and maintained, and not affiliated with or endorsed by 株式会社エーツー (A-Too Inc.). It reads only publicly available pages.

Is marketplace seller information included? No — deliberately. The Actor reads only the search list pages, which show marketplace offers as a lowest price plus an offer count; seller shop names appear only on product detail pages, which this Actor never fetches. The test suite asserts that no person- or seller-related field can appear in the output.

Does it respect robots.txt? Yes, strictly — including the parts that cost us speed. The search list pages are open to general bots; several filter URL-parameters (inStock=, rankBy=, is_marketplace=, …) are disallowed, so this Actor never sends them and filters client-side instead. The site's robots.txt asks all bots for a Crawl-delay of 30 seconds — this Actor honors it verbatim (strictly serial requests, 30 s apart), which is why runs take a couple of minutes rather than seconds.

Why is there no JAN/EAN barcode field? JAN codes appear only on product detail pages, which sit behind a bot challenge on the site's side. This Actor does not evade challenges, so it stays on the open list pages — every other field above is available there.

Do I need a proxy? Yes — and it is on by default. suruga-ya.jp sits behind a CDN that challenges requests from datacenter IP ranges (including Apify's default datacenter proxies) with HTTP 403. The default proxyConfiguration therefore uses Apify RESIDENTIAL proxies with country JP; leave it as is, or point it at your own Japanese residential proxy. Residential proxy bandwidth is billed as Apify platform usage on top of the Actor price. The Actor itself never rotates identities or evades blocks — it makes the same polite, serial, 30-second-spaced requests through whichever single egress you give it, and fails visibly when blocked.

Who is responsible for how the data is used? You are. The Actor collects publicly available factual data politely, but the legality of your specific use (redistribution, database rights, the source site's terms) is your responsibility as the user.

How fresh are the results? Prices and stock are what the site's search returns at retrieval time. Suruga-ya prices move with demand; treat each run as a snapshot and re-run for fresh data.

What about server load? Strictly serial requests, 30 s apart (the site's own requested crawl delay), 24 items per request, hard per-run request budget (max 60 = at most ~1,440 items per run), exponential backoff, no CAPTCHA/login/block evasion. If the site changes its page format, the Actor stops with a clear error instead of silently mis-parsing; if it blocks persistently, the run fails visibly.

Search terms this Actor answers

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Unofficial tool; not affiliated with 株式会社エーツー (A-Too Inc.) / Suruga-ya. Publicly available data only; users are responsible for compliance with the source site's terms and applicable law. No personal data and no seller data are collected.