How to find the value of a Japanese Pokémon card

June 28, 2026

Short answer: scan the card with Poke - Deck. The app reads Japanese cards — including sets that only release in Japan — and shows their price on the Japanese market using Cardmarket and eBay data.

Valuing a Japanese card is harder than a Western one, for two reasons: English catalogues often don’t list them, and the Japanese price is not the same as the English version’s price. A card has to be valued on its own market.

The steps

Scan the card. Poke - Deck automatically detects Japanese from the characters (hiragana / katakana) and identifies the card and its number.
Read the market price. The app shows the current value on the Japanese market, not a rough conversion of the English price.
Check graded comps. For valuable cards, look at the PSA 9 and PSA 10 comparables.

Why the Japanese price is different

Print runs, demand and availability differ between Japan and the West. The same artwork can be worth much more (or less) in its Japanese version. Valuing a Japanese card at the English price gives a wrong number — that’s the most common mistake.

What if the card only exists in Japan?

Many Japanese sets are never translated. Poke - Deck uses a multilingual catalogue that includes these exclusive sets, where an English-only scanner simply wouldn’t find the card.