Why Choose Provide Cars?
Smart car dealers use Provide Cars’ access to the thousands of cars, trucks and buses that pass through members-only auctions in Japan every day to get the great deals that give them the edge in their local markets.
Our professional, multilingual staff and advanced online system take the risk out of exporting, letting you concentrate on growing your business.
Give our system a test drive for 14 days here.
Members of the Japan Used
Motor Vehicle Exporters
Association since 1998
(Certificate No. JMVA-151)
Japanese Car Auctions
Provide Cars sources cars, trucks, buses, SUVs and vans from over 90 auction locations from Hokkaido in the far North of Japan to Okinawa in the far south.
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Major Auction Locations by Day
Here are the major auctions listed by day:
Monday
Honda Kansai
Honda Sendai
Honda Tokyo
Honda Nagoya
Honda Fukuoka
Honda Hokkaido
JU Tokyo
USS-R Nagoya
Aucnet
(This is the quietest day of the week with typical numbers around 7,000 vehicles.)
Tuesday
AAAI Sendai
CAA Gifu
CAA Tokyo
JU Saitama
JU Shizuoka
JU Nagano
JU Mie
JU Yamaguchi
SAA Sapporo
TAA Kyushu
TAA Kinki
TAAHiroshima
TAA Minami Kyushu
TAA Hokkaido
USS Kobe
USS Yokohama
ZIP Tokyo
Wednesday
BCN
CAA Chubu
GNN
Isuzu Makuhari
JAA
JU Ishikawa
JU Ibaraki
KCAA Ebino
LAA Shikoku
USS Sapporo
USS Tohoku
USS Niigata
USS Fujioka
USS Fukuoka
Hero
BayAuc
Thursday
AAA Oyama
AAA Fukuoka
Isuzu Kyushu
JU Aichi
JU Shinagawa
JU Gunma
JU Sapporo
JU Hiroshima
JU Fukushima
JU Toyama
KCAA Fukuoka
LAA Kansai
NAA Osaka
NAA Nagoya
SAA Hamamatsu
TAA Kanto
TAA Chubu
TAA Tohoku
USS Tokyo
ZIP Osaka
HAA Osaka
(USS Tokyo is a very large auction, making Thursdays the busiest day of the week up to 50,000 or so vehicles available in the peak season.)
Friday
AAAI Bayside
Isuzu Kobe
JAA Tsukuba
JU / LAA Okayama
JU Okinawa
JU Chiba
JU Tochigi
JU Niigata
JU Fukuoka
JU Miyagi
KCAA Yamaguchi
NAA Tokyo
USS Osaka
USS Nagoya
USS Nishi Tokyo
USS Hokuriku
Saturday
AAAIVT
CAA Tohoku
HAA Kobe
JU Gifu
JU Nara
NAA Osaka
NAA Tokyo
NAA Nagoya
RAA Ryutsu
TAA Yokohama
USS Okayama
USS Kyushu
USS Gunma
USS Shizuoka
Aucnet
Bidding
The days when cars were auctioned by a man with a gavel are long since gone here. Japanese car auctions are held over the internet or satellite link with buyers at the auction house (kaijo) competing with remote buyers through the same online computer system.
Auctions often divide different groups of vehicles into different corners - so you might have a foreign cars corner, an accident vehicle history corner etc. These corners are each assigned a batch of auctions numbers. So, the foreign cars corner might be from 07001 to 07699, which will be auctioned from, for example, 14:00 to 15:00 in the afternoon.
Each corner may well also be assigned a particular lane. This is like a mini-auction within the main auction. So you can often have a number of lanes running simultaneously. When you are dealing with a lot of different bids from different customers at auctions and lanes that are coming up very close to each other, or even simultaneously, it can be very difficult to keep track of each vehicle and make sure none slip through when we are bidding on others.
Provide Cars uses a sophisticated real time bid management program and different alarms and strategies to make sure we hit all the bids our customers want us to make. With cars being auctioned every few seconds, this is a very skilled job. To get an idea of what it is like, check out a video of one of our staff buying a Nissan GT-R here.
Learn more about the Japanese car auctions in these pages:
Interested in getting started bidding on cars and buying from us? Get started here.