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Japanese whisky buying & provenance database

Know which Japan price you are looking at.

Official MSRP is not a shelf price. A shelf price is not duty-free. An overseas listing is a different market again. Whisky From Japan keeps those contexts separate and links the source when a record is search-ready.

50bottle records
9official-source bottle pages
7distilleries with official visitor links

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Three questions this site is built to answer

What does it cost in Japan?

See MSRP, observed Japan shop price, duty-free and overseas observations as separate price types. No markup is calculated from an estimate.

Is it actually Japanese whisky?

Use producer-linked JSLMA evidence where we have it; otherwise the bottle record says the classification is not source-verified.

Which distillery can I visit?

Start with the directory, then follow official visitor and booking pages instead of relying on old travel reports.

Source-ready

Bottle pages with an official product source

All 50 records ↗

The database can hold a bottle before its research is finished. Search visibility is stricter: an individual bottle page becomes index-ready only after an official producer/product URL is stored.

Price coverage is deliberately narrower than the catalog

5 of 50 bottle records currently have a Japan price with a checkable source URL. Older editorial estimates may remain in the dataset for migration history, but the public buying UI does not present them as current shelf facts.

See sourced Japan and overseas price contexts ↗