HV-1
SCOUT
A relay, a bridge, a bastion host. The smallest useful thing.
- CPU
- 1 vCPU
- Memory
- 2 GB
- Storage
- 25 GB
- Transfer
- 2 TB
$5.50/mo
Tokyo · TYO-1 · Shinagawa
Servers in Japan
East Asia, constitutional secrecy
Answer
Tokyo runs on JPIX and BBIX at 71 ms to Singapore and 168 ms to New York. Japan protects secrecy of communications constitutionally, imposes no general retention duty and joins no Eyes tier — the strongest legal position among our performance sites — but it cooperates readily through mutual legal assistance and has a defined claimant disclosure procedure.
§01 Legal dossier
What Japan law actually says
Each claim below names the instrument behind it and the year it took effect, so you can verify it rather than trust us.
- 01
Constitutional secrecy of communications with narrow statutory exceptions
Instrument · 1947
Constitution of Japan, Art. 21(2) - 02
No general data-retention mandate for hosting providers
Instrument · 1984
Telecommunications Business Act imposes secrecy duties, not retention - 03
Provider liability limited, with a defined disclosure procedure for claimants
Instrument · 2001
Act on the Limitation of Liability for Damages of Specified Telecommunications Service Providers - 04
Personal-data protection with cross-border transfer restrictions
Instrument · 2020
Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI), as amended
The trade-off
Legally the strongest of our performance sites and the most expensive. Japan protects secrecy of communications at constitutional level, has no general retention mandate, and is in no Eyes tier. What it does not give you is distance from a determined claimant: the Provider Liability Limitation Act sets out a working disclosure procedure, and Japan cooperates readily with Western law enforcement through mutual legal assistance. Also 224 ms from Frankfurt — this is a site for Asian users, not a European hedge.
Measured latency
Round-trip in milliseconds, measured from Tokyo over the last 30 days.
Frankfurt 224 ms
Amsterdam 228 ms
London 232 ms
New York 168 ms
Singapore 71 ms
Network
JPIX and BBIX peering; transit via NTT, IIJ and Arelion.
Facility
- Facility
- TYO-1 · Shinagawa
- Uplink
- 25 Gbps per node
- EU member state
- No
- Intelligence alliance
- No documented participation
- Location live since
- 2025
- Test address
- 185.132.44.176
- Looking glass
- lg-tyo.incognitovps.com
- Coordinates
- 35.6762, 139.6503
Best for
- East Asian latency
- Japanese-market services
- Regional mirrors
- Low-latency APAC gaming
§02 $5.5 — 6 configurations
Linux VPS in Japan
HV-2
RELAY
VPN endpoint, proxy, small site. The default first server.
- CPU
- 2 vCPU
- Memory
- 4 GB
- Storage
- 60 GB
- Transfer
- 4 TB
$9.50/mo
HV-4
VECTOR
Docker stacks, CI runners, a pruned chain node.
- CPU
- 4 vCPU
- Memory
- 8 GB
- Storage
- 140 GB
- Transfer
- 8 TB
$19.50/mo
§03 $63.5 — 6 configurations
Dedicated in Japan
DS-0
OUTPOST
Entry bare metal. Your own kernel, your own disk, no neighbours.
- CPU
- 4c / 8t
- Memory
- 32 GB
- Storage
- 1 TB
- Transfer
- 30 TB
$63.50/mo
DS-1
GARRISON
Single-tenant workhorse with IPMI and custom ISO boot.
- CPU
- 8c / 16t
- Memory
- 64 GB
- Storage
- 2 TB
- Transfer
- 50 TB
$123.00/mo
DS-2
RAMPART
Highest single-thread clock on the network. Chain nodes love it.
- CPU
- 16c / 32t
- Memory
- 128 GB
- Storage
- 4 TB
- Transfer
- 60 TB
$205.50/mo
§04 $164 — 5 configurations
GPU compute in Japan
GX-4090
FORGE
Stable Diffusion, LLM fine-tunes up to 13B, video generation.
- GPU
- 1× RTX 4090
- CPU
- 8 vCPU
- Memory
- 64 GB
- Storage
- 1 TB
- Transfer
- Unmetered
$164.00/mo
GX-5090
FORGE-XL
32 GB VRAM. The best price per token on the network.
- GPU
- 1× RTX 5090
- CPU
- 12 vCPU
- Memory
- 96 GB
- Storage
- 2 TB
- Transfer
- Unmetered
$261.00/mo
GX-A100
CRUCIBLE
80 GB HBM2e for training runs that will not fit on consumer cards.
- GPU
- 1× A100 SXM4
- CPU
- 16 vCPU
- Memory
- 128 GB
- Storage
- 3.8 TB
- Transfer
- Unmetered
$688.50/mo
§05 $22 — 4 configurations
Storage in Japan
SX-4
VAULT-4
Cheap bulk capacity for backups, mirrors and media libraries.
- CPU
- 2 vCPU
- Memory
- 4 GB
- Storage
- 4 TB
- Transfer
- Unmetered
$22.00/mo
SX-8
VAULT-8
Restic, Borg, rclone and Syncthing targets with room to grow.
- CPU
- 2 vCPU
- Memory
- 8 GB
- Storage
- 8 TB
- Transfer
- Unmetered
$38.50/mo
SX-16
VAULT-16
Seedbox-class throughput with 200 GB of NVMe cache in front.
- CPU
- 4 vCPU
- Memory
- 16 GB
- Storage
- 16 TB
- Transfer
- Unmetered
$72.00/mo
Compare with the other seven
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
01 Is Japan a good place to host a server?
Tokyo's network is built on JPIX and BBIX, with 71 ms latency to Singapore and 168 ms to New York. Legally, Japan is the strongest of our performance sites: constitutional secrecy of communications, no general retention duty, and no Eyes tier. Yet it cooperates via mutual legal assistance and has a defined disclosure procedure under the Provider Liability Limitation Act. The trade-offs are fully disclosed here, not hidden.
02 Does Japan have mandatory data retention?
Japan does not impose a general data-retention duty on hosting providers. The Telecommunications Business Act (1984) requires secrecy of communications, not retention.
03 Is Japan in Five Eyes or the EU?
Japan is not documented as a participant in any Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance, and as a non-EU member, EU judicial-cooperation instruments do not apply.
04 What latency should I expect from Tokyo?
Measured round-trip latencies from Tokyo: 224 ms to Frankfurt, 232 ms to London, 228 ms to Amsterdam, 168 ms to New York, and 71 ms to Singapore. A looking glass is available at lg-tyo.incognitovps.com.
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