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The official Japanese list price of Pokémon booster packs from 1996 to 2026, per pack and per card, for standard and premium packs

11.1% October 1996 to September 2026 (JP release dates)

FiledSimple division of the company's own list prices.

How it’s built

  1. For each product on the official Japanese card site, take the list price and the cards per pack, and divide.
  2. Standard packs: ¥33 a card from December 2016, ¥36 from January 2023, ¥40 from May 2026. Premium packs run up to ¥60 a card.

What we assumed

  • Prices before December 2016 exclude consumption tax; later ones include it.That is how the product pages state them, so older and newer per-card prices are not directly comparable.

Sanity check

The two standard-pack price rises were 9% (2023) and 11% (2026), 21% in total since 2016. These are list prices, not what shops charged or buyers paid.

Where it comes from

Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes.

Show the working
  1. 1996-10-20 300/10=30.0
  2. 2001-12-01 191/5=38.2
  3. 2003-01-31 300/11=27.27
  4. 2010-12-17 150/5=30.0
  5. 2016-12-09 165/5=33.0
  6. 2023-01-20 180/5=36.0
  7. 2026-05-22 200/5=40.0
  8. 180/165=1.091
  9. 200/180=1.111
  10. 200/165=1.212

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