The Japanese Dollar
The Japanese dollar is a simpler way to represent Japanese prices, bringing unwieldy numbers in unfamiliar denominations into something more familiar for international customers. $1 JPD is fixed at 100 yen, so 1,200 yen is always $12 JPD.
Convert a price
Enter a price in yen. The yen sign, 円, 万 and full-width digits are all accepted.
JPY ¥3,500,000 
USD $22,173 
NZD NZ$37,660 
EUR €19,191 
GBP £16,443 
AUD A$31,413 
CNY ¥149,653 
KRW ₩31,339,221 
CAD C$30,951 
CHF CHF17,931 
HKD HK$173,978 
SGD S$28,361 
TWD NT$715,810 
THB ฿731,836 
PHP ₱1,347,612 
INR ₹2,109,380 Live rates, updated Sat, 08 Aug 2026
The Japanese number system
Unlike English, which adds a new word every three digits (thousand, million, billion), Japanese does not step evenly. It has characters for ten, hundred, thousand and ten thousand, then jumps straight to a hundred million and a trillion, with nothing dedicated in between.
| Character | Value | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| 十 | 10 | jū |
| 百 | 100 | hyaku |
| 千 | 1,000 | sen |
| 万 | 10,000 | man |
| 億 | 100,000,000 | oku |
| 兆 | 1,000,000,000,000 | chō |
Numbers in the gaps are built from these: a million is 百万, literally 'one hundred ten-thousands'. Because ten thousand has its own character, 万, prices are often counted in it, which does not line up with the commas placed every three digits in a written price. A useful shortcut: 万 is 10,000 yen, which is 100 Japanese dollars, so when you see 万, think 100 Japanese dollars.
- ¥1,200 sen nihyaku en 12 JPD
- 8万円 hachiman en 800 JPD
- 100万円 hyakuman en 10,000 JPD
- 5千万円 gosenman en 500,000 JPD
- 1億円 ichioku en 1,000,000 JPD
How to read a price
Take the price in yen and drop the last two digits, or imagine a decimal point two places from the right. The result is the value in Japanese dollars. For example, 3,500 yen becomes 35.00 and 350 yen becomes 3.50. To see the value in your own currency, use the converter above. At a ratio close to one hundred to one, the New Zealand dollar is the nearest match.
This is not an official currency
The Japanese dollar is a fixed exchange rate - exactly one hundred yen to one - that never fluctuates. It is not an official currency: you cannot pay with it, and no bank issues it. Its purpose is to be a shared reference that anyone - a person, a shop, or another website - can adopt to make Japanese prices easier to read.