Jimoty Scraper — Japan Local Classified Ads & Prices

Jimoty (jmty.jp) in rows: ad title, price in yen, prefecture, city, nearest station, category, description, photo and a direct ad link — Japan's local noticeboard in bulk.

What does the Jimoty Scraper do?

This Actor collects classified ads from Jimoty, the site Japanese households use to sell or give away furniture, appliances, bicycles and instruments within their own area. It returns one row per ad with the location split into prefecture, city and nearest railway station — three separate columns rather than the single run-on line the site prints.

That split is what makes the export usable. In Japan the nearest station is how location is actually understood, and having it as its own column means an export can be filtered to a rail line or a commute radius rather than just a prefecture.

Prices are pulled out of the card text as numbers, so free giveaways, cheap items and everything else can be sorted and compared.

Who is it for?

• Second-hand market researchers studying Japanese resale prices and supply.
• Recommerce and resale platforms sourcing supply data.
• Logistics and moving services spotting local demand.
• Retail analysts measuring what depreciates and how fast.
• Academics studying Japanese local trade and the giveaway economy.
• Collectors and bargain hunters watching a category in their own prefecture.

Use cases

• Track second-hand prices for a category across prefectures.
• Watch the free-giveaway section for supply in a specific city.
• Compare prices near one station against another.
• Measure how many ads a category attracts as a demand signal.
• Build a picture of what Japanese households replace and when.
• Monitor a prefecture for new listings on a schedule.
• Collect ads with photos for a visual catalogue.

Why use this Jimoty Scraper?

• Nearest station as its own column, which is how location works in Japan.
• Prefecture and city separated, so the export filters cleanly at either level.
• Prices as numbers, pulled out of text like 28,000円.
• Six sections, including the free-giveaway board that has no equivalent elsewhere.
• 57 ads per page with prefecture, section and keyword crawling.
• Japan-pinned residential proxying, because the site serves its own market.

What data can you extract?

Field	Description
articleId	Jimoty's own ad identifier
title	Ad title
price	Price in yen as a number
prefecture	Prefecture, from the ad's own URL
city	City or ward
station	Nearest railway station
category	Category as Jimoty labels it
description	The seller's own text, with the location line trimmed off
imageUrl	First photo
url	Direct link to the ad

Sample output

{
  "articleId": "1re7vo",
  "title": "surface laptop Pro3 パソコン 美品",
  "price": 28000,
  "prefecture": "tochigi",
  "city": "宇都宮市",
  "station": "東武宇都宮駅",
  "category": "その他",
  "description": "ノートはほぼ使ってないため綺麗です☺️",
  "imageUrl": "https://cdn.jmty.jp/articles/images/6a8de15cedcd4ce0dc6ad879/thumb_m_file.jpg",
  "url": "https://jmty.jp/tochigi/sale-oth/article-1re7vo"
}

How to use the Jimoty Scraper

Option A — the whole country

Leave Prefecture as all, pick a Section, set Maximum ads and run.

Option B — one prefecture

Set Prefecture to the name as it appears in a jmty.jp URL — tokyo, osaka, aichi, fukuoka, hokkaido.

Option C — free giveaways

Set Section to free giveaways. This is the part of Jimoty with no real equivalent on other Japanese marketplaces.

Option D — keyword search

Add terms to Search terms to narrow the section. Japanese returns the most, but Latin product names appear in many titles.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
prefecture	string	Prefecture from a jmty.jp URL, or all
section	select	Sale, free, services, events, classes, wanted
searchQueries	array	Free-text search terms
maxItems	integer	How many ads to collect in total
proxyConfiguration	object	Japan-pinned residential proxy, required

Tips for best results

• Leave the proxy pinned to Japan. Jimoty is a domestic site and serves its own market.
• Filter on station for anything commute-related. It is the column Japanese buyers actually think in.
• The free section has no price, by definition — those rows carry a title and a location but no figure.
• Prefecture names come from the URL, in romaji: tokyo, not 東京.
• Japanese search terms return more, though Latin brand names work for electronics.

Integrations

Push results to Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack, Zapier, Make or your own service through Apify's integrations, or schedule a run to watch a prefecture over time.

API usage

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/YOUR_USERNAME~jimoty-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "prefecture": "tokyo",
    "section": "sale",
    "maxItems": 1000
  }'

Results export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

Available as a tool through Apify's MCP server, so an agent can find local Japanese listings or check second-hand prices on demand.

FAQ

Do I need a Jimoty account?

No. The listing pages this Actor reads are open to any visitor.

How many ads can one run return?

Listing pages go a long way back, so several thousand ads from one run is normal.

What prefectures can I use?

Any that appears in a jmty.jp URL, in romaji — tokyo, osaka, aichi, fukuoka, hokkaido, tochigi and the rest. Use all for the whole country.

Why is the price sometimes empty?

Because the ad has no price. The free-giveaway section has none by definition, and a small share of sale ads are marked negotiable.

What is the station column?

The nearest railway station to the seller. Jimoty prints it because it is how location is understood in Japan, and it is kept as its own column for filtering.

Can I search in English?

Partly. Latin brand and product names appear in many titles, but Japanese terms return substantially more.

Does it collect seller contact details?

No. The Actor exports the public listing card — title, price, location, category, description, photo and link.

Can I export to CSV or Excel?

Yes — JSON, CSV, Excel, XML and RSS.

How fresh is the data?

Every run reads Jimoty live.

Why did my run return zero ads?

Usually a prefecture spelled differently from the URL. Open jmty.jp/<prefecture>/sale in a browser to check.

Is it legal to scrape Jimoty?

This Actor reads only public listing pages, and collecting publicly available data is generally lawful. You are responsible for how you use it — check Jimoty's terms, treat any personal detail under applicable privacy law, and do not use the data for unsolicited bulk contact.

Related scrapers

Pair with the other Japanese and regional classifieds Actors in the store to cover auctions, marketplaces and local trade together.

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*Maintained: last verified 2026-09-01 — checked end-to-end against live run history (reliability, output fields and types, and time/memory budgets).