Best Place to Buy Japanese Games?

[Sophia]

Hi,

I live in the UK and was wondering where is the best place to buy Japanese games (other than Japan)? So far the only site I have been able to find is Play Asia. I still haven't ordered anything yet though....

There are four or five games I'd quite like to get and I want to shop around before committing my £$€¥. Thank you for any suggestions.


Sophia x

[Harry94]

The only one I know and trust is play Asia.

[Terminator]

Yesasia.com is another good place to get games from but they tend to be more expensive then play-asia.com. Amazon.co.jp is best avoided as their prices are down-right extortionate at times !

[Sophia]

Thanks guys! Sorry for not replying sooner but I didn't think anyone would have replied so soon.

I was unsure if Amazon JP shipped to the UK, do they? I may just have to bite the bullet and buy from Play Asia. Damn you Koei!

[Terminator]

Amazon.co.jp definitely ship to the UK as I've bought several things from there over the years but they're very expensive .

[Sophia]

Thanks Terminator, I was heading to Play Asia and I clicked on the the Wiki link by mistake. I found this:

"Play-Asia suspended EU Sony importing

After the lawsuit against Lik-Sang for importing NTSC-J PS3s and games to the EU, Play-Asia announced that it would no longer be shipping PlayStation products to the EU.[4] [5] Regardless of this, Play-Asia still ships PlayStation 1, PlayStation 2 and as of late 2010, select PlayStation 3 titles to certain parts of Europe."

It's made me slighty more apprehensive about buying from Play Asia. Some of the games just look too good to pass up though.

Sophia x

[Terminator]

It depends on where you live, if you're in the UK or Germany then you will be fine . I think that ruling only really applies to the consoles and not games, I've not heard of anyone In Europe having trouble ordering from Play-Asia.com though I could be wrong.

[mugiwara84]

Pre-ordered Clannad last year and it arrived safely from Play-Asia. Expecting the same will happen with One Piece Kaizoku Musou. Would be quite furious if I don't get my hands on OP asap. Even took the 1-3 days shipping this time instead of the 21 days.

[raspberrylicious]

There are a few options. I normally use playasia. I use yesasia (or ebay) if they have an item playasia doesn't, and I use amiami for their preorder bonuses (be warned; amiami has atrocious shipping).
I live in the US, so I'm not so sure about these places' shipping policies to Europe, but you should check them out all the same.

[Aeliana]

My order of preference is NCSX > Play-Asia > Amiami > eBay.