An independent directory of Japanese porn sites, from JAV studios and streaming services to English-subtitled releases, VR and live cams, grouped by category.

Ninety sites, sorted by what they do

Japanese Porn Sites lists 90 sites for live-action Japanese adult video: memberships, stores, the makers' own sites, live chat and reference databases. Each site has one entry and one write-up, and it appears in every category its own pages back up. A download store with a monthly program and a fetish shelf is filed under all three without being described three times.

The 14 categories follow the questions that come up when you look at Japanese adult video from outside Japan. Does the video carry a mosaic? Is any of the site in English? Will the checkout take a card from abroad? And which store sells the title a maker announces?

Paying to watch

JAV streaming subscriptions covers flat monthly memberships. Japan-based ones such as G-AREA are written in Japanese, and Mywife states that it serves Japan only. ZENRA is the service built around English subtitles, sold in US dollars.

JAV download and DVD stores is for buying one title at a time. DUGA sells downloads and pay-per-view titles from many makers, and Japan Media Direct posts discs to buyers overseas. JAV DVD and Blu-ray shops goes deeper into discs, with Sukeban Alley Japan among the shops that ship worldwide, and explains the region codes of Japanese discs.

Makers, with and without the mosaic

Video distributed inside Japan carries a mosaic. JAV studios and labels is the largest page on the site and holds the official sites of the makers who work under that rule, S1 NO.1 STYLE, MOODYZ, IDEAPOCKET, Madonna and SOFT ON DEMAND among them. Most of these sites sell nothing themselves. They announce releases by product code and name the store that carries them, which is FANZA more often than any other. The write-ups say which stores a maker points to, wherever its site names them.

Uncensored JAV studios lists the studios that publish without the mosaic and are run by companies outside Japan: Caribbeancom, 1Pondo, HEYZO and JAVHD belong here, and D2Pass is the shared account behind several of them. Nearly all sell memberships.

English and payment from abroad

JAV sites in English gathers the sites whose own pages offer an English interface, from sites written in English throughout to Japanese sites with a translated mirror. An English menu says nothing about subtitles, so each write-up states what is translated.

JAV sites that accept foreign payment lists the sites that price in US dollars or name PayPal, cryptocurrency or an international card processor. DXLIVE, Stripchat and Japanboyz are among them.

Reference, live chat and VR

JAV databases and release calendars holds sites that sell no video and help identify one: AV Joyu DB and DebutDB index performers and releases. Japanese live cams and fan platforms runs from Japanese-language chat sold by the minute to English-facing sites such as SakuraLive, and includes creator fan clubs such as Fantia. Japanese VR porn sets JVRPorn, an English-language VR library, beside the VR lines of stores and makers.

Four narrower shelves

Amateur JAV sites, Mature and married-woman JAV, Fetish and BDSM JAV and Japanese gay porn sites gather the memberships, makers, stores and chat services that specialize, so a visitor with one interest does not have to read every other page.

Before you pay

Check four things on a site's entry. Whether its video is censored. Which language the membership page and customer support use. Whether the site states where it serves, because some say they are for Japan only. And how it bills: the currency, how a plan renews and how it is canceled.

A price in a write-up is given as the site prints it, in yen or in dollars, and carries the month it was read. Prices change, so confirm them on the site itself. Every site listed here is for adults aged 18 or over.