Japanese Dollar
The Japanese Dollar is a simpler way to think about prices in yen, especially if you're used to seeing prices in dollars or euros. For example, ¥1,200 becomes $12 JPD, or 26万円 becomes $2,600 JPD.
Convert a price
Enter a price in yen. The yen sign, 円, 万 and full-width digits are all accepted.
JPY ¥1,200 
USD $7.59 
NZD NZ$13.52 
EUR €6.77 
GBP £5.73 
AUD A$10.97 
CNY ¥50.88 
KRW ₩10,213 
CAD C$10.78 
CHF CHF6.29 
HKD HK$59.58 
SGD S$9.74 
TWD NT$246 
THB ฿255 
PHP ₱479 
INR ₹722 Live rates, updated Fri, 16 Oct 2026
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
- 26万円 nijūrokuman en $2,600 JPD
- 100万円 hyakuman en $10,000 JPD
- 350万円 sanbyaku gojūman en $35,000 JPD
- 5千万円 gosenman en $500,000 JPD
- 1億円 ichioku en $1,000,000 JPD
How to read a price
Move the decimal point in a yen price two places to the left. For a ¥3,500 price, you'd say $35 JPD; ¥350 becomes $3.50 JPD. The same small step works for much larger numbers, too. Enter a price in the converter above to compare it with other currencies.