Google Play

A genuine Google Play gift card issued for the Japanese store and quoted in yen. It redeems into Google Play balance, which is what the Japanese Play Store charges against — apps, games, in-app purchases, books, films and subscriptions — so the buyer never has to store a bank card on the account. The code is generated and delivered automatically once the payment is confirmed, and Japan is a separate store region with a yen catalogue, so the card matches an account whose country is set to Japan.

Key Highlights

• Genuine Japan Google Play gift card — issued in yen for the Japan store region.
• Code delivered automatically after payment confirmation, normally within minutes.
• Redeems into Google Play balance: Games, apps and in-app purchases on the Japanese Play Store.
• No account password needed — you redeem the code yourself on Google's own page.
• Checkout takes international cards and the payment rails available for your country.
• Live chat support before and after purchase, with the order number as the reference.

What You Can Buy With Japan Play Balance

• Apps and games on the Japan Play Store, paid straight from the balance.
• In-app purchases — currency packs, extra levels, passes — bought through the store rather than with a foreign card.
• Subscriptions billed through the Japan store, where Google's country terms allow balance to cover them.
• Books, films and TV shows in the countries where the Play Store sells them.
• A balance that outlasts one purchase: leftover credit stays on the account for the next one.

How to Redeem

How to Redeem

1. Sign in to the Google account that should receive the balance — the credit lands on that account, not on the phone.
2. On the web: open play.google.com/redeem, paste the code from your order page and select Redeem.
3. In the Play app: tap your profile picture, open Payments & subscriptions and choose Redeem code.
4. At checkout: start the purchase, open the payment-method list and pick Redeem code instead of a card.
5. Review the account shown for the balance, confirm it, and the credit is added immediately.
6. If the code is refused, stop and message live chat with the order number before trying it again — a region mismatch is the usual cause.

Which Region Is This Card For?

This is a region code for Japan: it redeems on a Google account whose Play country is set to Japan, and it loads balance in yen. Google's own rule is that a Play gift card may only be redeemed and used in the country and currency it was bought for, and the account's country has to match — a mismatch is refused with a region error. The Japanese store prices in yen, and yen prices are whole numbers — the Play Store in Japan does not use a minor unit in everyday pricing, which is why the steps on this page are round figures (500, 1,000 and up). Google's own note for Japan states that redeemed Play balance carries no expiration date, and that the 1,500 and 15,000 yen cards were retired in September 2023 (cards bought before that date still redeem).

Denominations On This Page

Six steps are listed here, running from 500 yen to 10,000 yen. Denomination steps are face values of the card in yen; the price you pay is the live amount shown in this page's own table, converted for your country at checkout.

Region & Compliance

Play gift cards and prepaid balance are not refundable or transferable unless the law in the country of issue says otherwise, and refund decisions sit with the retailer that issued the card. An account must meet its region's age requirement, and gift-card balance cannot be used as a family payment method. If you have moved country, note that changing your Play country does not carry redeemed balance across — it stays usable only in the country where it was redeemed. Keep the order number and the exact on-screen message if anything looks wrong, and message live chat before retrying a code.