Japanese Pokémon Booster Packs Go Up to ¥230 From May 2027

Japanese Pokémon booster packs will cost ¥230 instead of ¥200 from May 2027. The official Japanese Pokémon Card Game site announced the change on Friday 6 November. It covers new 5-card booster packs released from May 2027 onwards.

What's changing

¥230 is the new recommended retail price, tax included. Packs from sets released up to April 2027 stay at ¥200. The notice puts the increase down to rising raw material costs, among other things. It also says a few booster packs may be priced differently, and products sold at other price points will be priced one by one. Those prices haven't been announced yet.

PokeBeach works out that a 30-pack Japanese booster box would go from ¥6,000 to ¥6,900. It's the third rise since Scarlet & Violet began. Packs went from ¥165 to ¥180 in January 2023, then to ¥200 in May 2026. At ¥230, a Japanese pack will cost nearly 40% more than it did in the Sword & Shield era.

English packs

The Pokémon Company International hasn't announced any price change for English cards. PokeBeach notes that English cards come from different factories and a separate supply chain, so it's unclear whether they'll follow.

If you buy Japanese sealed in the UK, the price here also depends on the exchange rate, shipping and how much stock importers can get, so the ¥30 rise won't turn into a fixed amount in pounds. Aura Seeker, out in Japan on 27 November, is still a ¥200 pack.

At PokePals

We stock Japanese sealed, including the Abyss Eye Japanese Booster Box and loose Mega Dream Japanese booster packs. Both sets are already out, so the new list price doesn't apply to them. For more on what's coming from Japan, see our post on the last sets of the MEGA era.

Source: Pokémon Card Game official site (Japanese), PokeBeach. Image: PokePals.