Best pocket Wi-Fi rental companies in Japan

Here are the comparisons of 7 popular pocket Wi-Fi rental companies in Japan. Rental rates, data usage amount, data speed, battery life, delivery speed and how easy to pick up and return are compared under the same condition:

Pick-up Location: Airport
Rental Term: 7 days
Option: Extra mobile battery

These 7 pocket Wi-Fi rental companies allow you to pick up a Wi-Fi unit at your hotel, but quite a few people think it’s too difficult to get to their hotels from airports without it. Picking up at arrival airports is the most agreeable option.

An extra mobile battery is as necessary with a pocket Wi-Fi router. If you connect to the internet all day, the battery of the Wi-Fi router is fully drained. What do you think if you run out of the battery and cannot search the restaurant for dinner? Take one mobile battery at least in Japan.

Rate: 6,494 yen (7 days rental fee 5,994 yen + Shipping fee 500 yen)

Data Speed: 187.5Mbps(Down Max)/37.5Mbps(Up Max)

Data Usage Amount: Completely Unlimited

Battery: 10 hours continuous use

Pick-up and Return: You can just pick up at airports/hotels and use a pre-paid return envelope to drop it off into post boxes anywhere in Japan. The return envelope is provided with the Wi-Fi unit.

Last Minute Order: 1 Day Before (It depends on your pick-up location and the season)

Japan Wireless is the most recommended pocket Wi-Fi company in Japan, achieving over 200,000 rentals to customers from all over the world. It has 2 kinds of Wi-Fi routers, and both are completely unlimited 4G LTE data usage plans. You can literally use the 4G internet without data limitation. For faster data speed, longer battery and wider coverage, Premium Wi-Fi is more recommended.

It offers an extra mobile battery for free and you are never charged for cancellation fee if you want to cancel for any reasons. Make a reservation at ease.

Japan Wireless

Rate: 6,048 yen (7 days rental fee 4,900yen + Extra mobile battery 700 yen + tax)

Data Speed: 187.5Mbps(Down Max)/37.5Mbps(Up Max)

Data Usage Amount: Unlimited

Battery: 8 hours

Pick-up and Return: You can just pick up at airports/hotels and use a pre-paid return envelope to drop it off into post boxes anywhere in Japan. The return envelope is provided with a WiFi unit.

Last Minute Order: 3 Days Before (It depends on your pick-up location and the season)

There are two 4G LTE unlimited plans in Pupuru WiFi: the Hi-Speed plan good for city areas and the Broad-Coverage plan good for suburban areas (extra fee for 200 yen per day). This Wi-Fi rental company also lends the translator device POCKETALK for 300 yen per day.

Pupuru WiFi

Rate: 6,750 yen (7 days rental fee 6,750yen)

Data Speed: 75Mbps(Down Max)/25Mbps(Up Max)

Data Usage Amount: Unlimited

Battery: 10–12 hours

Pick-up and Return: You can just pick up at airports/hotels and use a pre-paid return envelope to drop it off into post boxes anywhere in Japan. The return envelope is provided with a WiFi unit.

Last Minute Order: 4 Days Before (It depends on your pick-up location and the season)

Japan Rail Pass, which is also known for the economical train pass (JR Pass), offers a pocket Wi-Fi. The rental plan pricing is so simple: just choose your rental term although it does not handle extra batteries. If you take a JR Pass, this is a good option to add the pocket WiFi to your cart.

Japan Rail Pass

Rate: 7,560 yen (7 days rental fee 6,300yen + Extra mobile battery 700 yen + tax)

Data Speed: 165Mbps(Down Max)/37.5Mbps(Up Max)

Data Usage Amount: Unlimited *Please be aware that exceeding 3GB in a day can result in a loss of speed and possibly a temporary loss of connection.

Battery: 9 hours

Pick-up and Return: You can pick up and return at NINJA WiFi counters in major international airport for the free option. Delivery services are also available with extra fees.

Last Minute Order: 1 Day Before (It depends on your pick-up location and the season)

There are two 4G LTE plans in NINJA WiFi: unlimited usage and 1 GB per day. The Unlimited Plan has no limitation of data usage, however, its connection may be lost after using 3GB in a day according to its website. The WiFi company also serves translation devices such as ili and POCKETALK.

NINJA WiFi

Rate: 5,120 yen (7 days rental fee 3,150yen + Shipping fee 1,080 yen + Pick-up handling fee 540 yen + Extra mobile battery 350 yen)

Data Speed: 612Mbps(Down Max)/37.5Mbps(Up Max)

Data Usage Amount: 20 GB/month (You can use 15 GB at least if you start to use from the middle of the month.)

Battery: 3–4 hours

Pick-up and Return: You can just pick up at airports/hotels and use a pre-paid return envelope to drop it off into post boxes anywhere in Japan. The return envelope is provided with the Wi-Fi unit.

Last Minute Order: 1 Day Before (It depends on your pick-up location and the season)

Wi-Fi Rental Store serves 4G pocket Wi-Fi with the cheapest plan of the 7 Wi-Fi rental companies. Its latest model device also has the fastest data speed 612Mbps (Download).

If you want to use WiFi a lot of time, please note there is a data usage limitation (15~20 GB per month).

Wi-Fi Rental Store

Rate: 8,950 yen (7 days rental fee 7,900 yen + Extra mobile battery 1,050 yen)

Data Speed: 187.5Mbps(Down Max)/10Mbps(Up Max)

Data Usage Amount: Unlimited (the internet may be unavailable if you use more than 5 GB per day)

Battery: 9 hours of continuous use

Pick-up and Return: You can just pick up at airports/hotels and use a pre-paid return envelope to drop it off into post boxes anywhere in Japan. The return envelope is provided with the WiFi unit.

Last Minute Order: 1 Day Before (It depends on your pick-up location and the season)

Global Advanced Communications offer 4 types of the devices and a long-term plan (from 120 days). Its Super Premium Wifi is unlimited data usage plan. According to the website, please note that in case you consume the data usage over 5G bytes within one day, the carrier may stop the communication line based on its fair use policy.

An extra mobile battery is provided for 150 yen per day. They don’t provide any loss/damage insurance and they recommend to take travel insurance with your travel agency or credit card.

Global Advanced Communications

Rate: 11,221 yen (7 days rental fee 8,990yen + Extra mobile battery 1400 yen + tax)

Data Speed: 20 Mbps

Data Usage Amount: 3 GB/day

Battery: 20 hours

Pick-up and Return: You can just pick up at airports/hotels and use a pre-paid return envelope to drop it off into post boxes anywhere in Japan. The return envelope is provided with the WiFi unit.

Last Minute Order: 1 Day Before (It depends on your pick-up location and the season)

Wi-Fi Rental Store offers three 4G pocket Wi-Fi plans with the different data usage limitations: 300 MB, 600 MB and 3GB per day. If you connect to the Wi-Fi to use the internet in many ways including watching movies and talking through Skype and other VoIPs, the Lite Plan and Regular Plan may be not enough for you. There are also SIM cards available.

Sakura Mobile

Totally, Japan Wireless is the most recommended to hire a pocket Wi-Fi in Japan since it offers latest modems with the 4G unlimited data usage at a reasonable price. Japan Wireless’s Wi-Fi is truly unlimited 4G LTE while some companies promote “unlimited” with the notice that the connection can be lost if you use over 3～5 GB per day.

Pick-up and return are very easy with the company. And Japan Wireless can accept last minute orders even one day before.

The actual data speed is lower than 187.5Mbps or 612Mbps like above since the speed is based on the best effort internet. However, around 10 Mbps is enough to use SNSs, online maps and other apps as fas as I’m concerned.

Japan Wireless

Narita Int'l Airport

Chiba Pref

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Update date：2024/04/23