What Suruga-ya sells a card, game or figure for in Japan, and what it pays for one
- endpoints
- 6
- credits per call
- 2–3
The Suruga-ya API returns suruga-ya.jp, one of Japan's largest second-hand shops, as clean JSON in yen.
| name | marketplace_min_price_jpy | category_label | maker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 127/103[SAR]:(キラ)ピカチュウex | 5680 JPY | ポケモンカードゲーム/SAR/雷/MEGA 拡… | ポケモン |
| 034/103(18/30):(キラ)ピカチュウ | — | ポケモンカードゲーム/雷/MEGA 拡張パック… | ポケモン |
| 030/103(14/30):(キラ)ピカチュウ | 150 JPY | ポケモンカードゲーム/雷/MEGA 拡張パック… | ポケモン |
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Suruga-ya API
3 of 6 endpoints, ready to run
Items by keyword, card game or department: Suruga-ya's own new and used price, stock, time sale, list price and the cheapest marketplace offer.
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What Suruga-ya endpoints does ReefAPI ship?
6 live read endpoints. Read-only data API: no writes, no account actions, no dashboard access on the target site.
search
3 crSearch Suruga-ya's catalogue.
- required
- —
- optional
- query, game, category, card_type, condition, include_sold_out, min_price, max_price, rarity, series, maker, release_year_from, release_year_to, sort, page
product
2 crOne Suruga-ya item in full.
- required
- product_id
- optional
- branch_number
offers
2 crThe marketplace (マケプレ) offers for one item.
- required
- product_id
- optional
- condition, sort, page
buyback_search
2 crSuruga-ya's buy-back price list (買取).
- required
- query
- optional
- search_by, game, category, sort, page
buyback
2 crOne item's buy-back page.
- required
- product_id
- optional
- —
categories
2 crSuruga-ya's category ids.
- required
- —
- optional
- —
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Missing a Suruga-ya endpoint, or need a source we don't have yet?Contact us real people · same-day reply.How the Suruga-ya API works
Suruga-ya is a normal ReefAPI surface — the same four rules that hold for every other engine on the key.
No OAuth app, no request signing, no per-site account. One key covers all 632 engines.
Every route is a POST with a JSON body. Parameters are validated against the published schema before anything is charged.
Credits, not seats. Failed and blocked calls are never charged, and nothing is cached: every call reads the source live.
One envelope everywhere. meta carries latency_ms, record_count and the endpoint that answered.
Buy-back spread for a Switch 2 game in three calls
From a barcode to what Suruga-ya pays, what it sells the game for, and what other shops ask.
{"query": "4902370553321", "search_by": "jan"}The item id and Suruga-ya's buy price (4,900 yen on 2026-11-08).
{"product_id": "112000012"}Suruga-ya's own used price and stock (6,560 yen in a time sale, regular 6,840), list price 8,920.
{"product_id": "112000012"}Each marketplace shop's price, condition note, stock and shipping time.
Buy price, sale price and the marketplace floor for one game, all in yen, from the live site.
curl -X POST https://api.reefapi.com/surugaya/v1/search \
-H "x-api-key: $REEF_KEY" \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"query":"ピカチュウ","game":"pokemon"}'{
"ok": true,
"data": { … },
"meta": {
"api": "surugaya",
"endpoint": "search",
"mode": "live",
"latency_ms": …,
"record_count": …
},
"error": null
}One card, five prices: what a Suruga-ya item looks like as data
Suruga-ya sells one card in several conditions, lets other shops list it beside its own stock, and publishes what it pays to buy it back. Measured on One Piece OP05-060 Monkey D. Luffy (parallel leader), 2026-11-08:
| what the site shows | field | value |
|---|---|---|
| 中古 4,780円 (2 in stock) | variants[0].price_jpy / stock_qty | 4780 / 2 |
| その他の状態: 中古 【PSA/GEM MT 10】 16,800円 | other_conditions[].price_jpy, grader, grade | 16800, PSA, 10 |
| その他の状態: 中古 Bランク 2,870円 | other_conditions[].condition_label, price_jpy | 中古 Bランク, 2870 |
| 他のショップ (14) 2,440円~ | marketplace_count / marketplace_min_price_jpy | 14 / 2440 |
| 買取価格 2,800円 | buy_price_jpy | 2800 |
Prices are yen including consumption tax. The buy price is returned only when Suruga-ya prints it: for many single cards the site quotes it by e-mail, and buy_price_jpy is then null (quote_by_email true on the buy-back actions) rather than a guess.
What Suruga-ya publishes, and what it does not
suruga-ya.jp only — Japan, prices in JPY including tax. Measured 2026-11-08: 38 of 39 live cases across six actions (the one miss was our own check: a keyword search also returned an original pack whose text matched), 62 offline checks on real pages. Re-reading the same items from the site's own structured data and buy-back pages, every name, barcode and buy price matched.
In 353 live rows: category line 353, maker 352, release date 351, marketplace price 302, the shop's own price 256 (in stock), list price 48, time sale 24.
Only when the shop prints one. Many single cards are quoted by e-mail, and those are null.
24 rows a page on search, 20 on offers and buy-back.
Price history, sold history, stock per store, and English card names except where the site writes them, as on Magic.
What people build with Suruga-ya
The jobs this data is most often used for.
Japan-to-abroad card arbitrage: Suruga-ya's yen price next to snkrdunk, Card Rush, eBay or TCGplayer for the same card number
Buy-back spread: what Suruga-ya pays (買取) against what it sells the same item for
Graded card pricing: PSA 10 copy versus the raw card, in one call
Retro game and figure price tracking by JAN barcode
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What Suruga-ya data costs
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curl -X POST https://api.reefapi.com/surugaya/v1/search \
-H "x-api-key: $REEF_KEY" \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"query":"ピカチュウ","game":"pokemon"}'import os
import requests
REEF_KEY = os.environ["REEF_KEY"]
r = requests.post(
"https://api.reefapi.com/surugaya/v1/search",
headers={"x-api-key": REEF_KEY},
json={
"query": "ピカチュウ",
"game": "pokemon"
},
timeout=90,
)
print(r.json()["data"])Have a question? We got answers.
The questions people actually ask before wiring up Suruga-ya.
Does it give the buy-back (買取) price as well as the selling price?▾
Yes. product carries buy_price_jpy when the item page prints a 買取価格, and buyback_search and buyback return it directly, searchable by name, JAN / ISBN barcode or model number. On 2026-11-08 the buy prices of six Switch 2 games matched their own buy-back pages exactly. Many single cards are quoted by e-mail only; those come back with quote_by_email true and no price.
How do I get the price of a PSA 10 or a lower-condition copy?▾
product lists every condition on sale with its price and stock (variants), and the other conditions and graded copies as other_conditions with their price and branch_number; graded copies are split into grader, grade and grade_label (PSA, 10, GEM MT). Call product again with that branch_number to read its stock. Some graded slabs are also listed as items of their own, with the grade in the name.
Which card games are covered?▾
Every card category on Suruga-ya: game takes pokemon, pokemon_old_back, yugioh, yugioh_rush_duel, onepiece, duel_masters, mtg, weiss_schwarz, vanguard, digimon, shadowverse_evolve, battle_spirits, wixoss, zx, dragon_ball_heroes, rebirth_for_you, buddyfight and force_of_will, and categories returns all 167 card categories (TCGs, arcade cards, collection cards, supplies) with ids any search accepts.
Can I filter by rarity or set?▾
Yes, with the values Suruga-ya indexes, which every search returns in meta.facets (rarity, series, maker, year range, price bands, with approximate counts). Pokémon rarities such as SAR and AR are not indexed by the site; put them in the query instead ('ピカチュウ SAR' found five SAR Pikachu cards).
What are the marketplace offers?▾
Besides its own stock, Suruga-ya lets its branch stores and partner shops list the same item (マケプレ). offers returns each shop's price, condition note, stock, shipping days, free shipping and rating, 20 a page, cheapest first or by price high to low or by most reviews. Suruga-ya's own stock can appear in that list too and is flagged is_surugaya.
Why does a search row have no price of its own?▾
Suruga-ya's own stock is sold out (in_stock false); the row still shows the cheapest marketplace price. By default the list holds items someone can sell now; include_sold_out adds items nobody has (Weiß Schwarz: 51,580 items by default, 81,005 with sold-out ones).
What is the Suruga-ya API?▾
Suruga-ya API is a ReefAPI endpoint group for suruga-ya (駿河屋) as json: japan's big second-hand shop's sale prices for cards, games and figures, every condition and psa copy, marketplace offers and buy-back prices, in jpy. It returns live JSON through POST requests under /surugaya/v1.
Is the Suruga-ya API free to try?▾
Yes. ReefAPI starts with 1,000 free credits, no card required. Suruga-ya calls use the same shared credit balance as every other ReefAPI engine.
Do I need a Suruga-ya login or account?▾
No login to Suruga-ya is needed for the API response. You call ReefAPI with your x-api-key header, and the playground can run live examples before you create a production key.
How fresh is the Suruga-ya data?▾
The page example is captured from a live search call, and production requests fetch live data through ReefAPI rather than a static sample.
How many credits does the Suruga-ya API use?▾
Suruga-ya actions currently cost 2-3 credits per successful call. Failed or blocked calls are free. All APIs draw from one credit pool.
Can I call Suruga-ya from an AI assistant or MCP client?▾
Yes. Connect ReefAPI once through MCP and your assistant can call surugaya actions with the same key, credit pool and JSON envelope used by normal REST requests.
Is the Suruga-ya API a Suruga-ya scraper?▾
It is the managed alternative to a DIY Suruga-ya scraper. Instead of building and maintaining your own scraper — proxies, headless browsers, captcha and constant breakage — you call one ReefAPI endpoint and get the same suruga-ya (駿河屋) as json: japan's big second-hand shop's sale prices for cards, games and figures, every condition and psa copy, marketplace offers and buy-back prices, in jpy back as clean JSON.
Why does my Suruga-ya scraper keep getting blocked?▾
Most Suruga-ya scrapers break on anti-bot defenses, rate limits and IP bans that need rotating residential proxies and browser fingerprinting to clear. ReefAPI handles all of that for you — no proxies, no captchas, no maintenance — and returns live JSON. Blocked calls are free.
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Endpoints, parameters and credit costs on this page are read from the live catalog and cannot drift from what the API accepts. Field notes were captured on 2026-11-08.