I’ve been able to buy games in the store and play them no problem. I’m using my Japanese credit card so far.
The problem is I still look at the U.S. PsN store and now with the summer sales I wanted to buy some cheap games with my Japanese credit card. But I can’t since I cannot change the country on my billing address to Japan so the credit card information isn’t going through.
I still have my American credit card and I could wire money from my japan bank to my American bank, but
is there an easier way that people do this here?
Does everyone start a Japan PsN account and that’s the main one we use while in japan?
Is there a way to use my Japanese credit card on my US PsN account?
How about for battle passes or subscriptions for online games? Do I have to start over or keep wiring money since I would have to keep using my American credit card?
I know I’m asking a lot so thank you to everyone who responds.
Edit: Thank you everyone who helped me. I ended up using US PayPal with JP Cc and US billing address on the US PsN.
For US Nintendo I bought a gift card on PlayAsia with no account using US PayPal with JP Cc and US billing since Nintendo won’t allow cross region payment even through 3rd party.
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You can buy PSN gift cards for your region using your Japanese credit card.
I haven’t bought anything on psn in forever but does it allow PayPal like the switch does? If so, link your JP card to PayPal and then use that or use your JP card to buy gift cards on American Amazon.
Edit:
Making a JP PayPal account is easier. I don’t believe psn checks the PayPal region
Not the easy way, but at least one I’m most familiar and comfortable doing now…
I use Playasia to buy US PSN cards using my PayPal account which has my JP credit card.
Has worked for me for almost a decade now and haven’t had any issues. And I also use this for Switch US-based codes or games.
If you’ve got an Amazon account for your home country, use your JP credit card to buy a digital PSN gift card code.
Play asia gift cards. I do it for ps and switch since japan region sales are beyond pathetic.
You can buy us psn prepaid cards through g2a.com using whatever credit card / payment method you prefer.
I haven’t been able to connect my Japanese payment systems to a us psn account so prepaid cards are the next best option (sucks with the usd/jpy conversion rate though)
G2A gift cards
I don’t have a PS5, but I used to buy PS4 gift cards from amazon using my Japanese credit card and was able to redeem the email codes on my US based PS4.
I usually buy cards on [https://www.pcgamesupply.com/](https://www.pcgamesupply.com/) been doing it for years.
I get digital US PSN cards from playasia.com to buy games from my US PS Store account. None of the other payment methods I’ve tried from Japan work in the US PS Store.
Note that even if you have both a US and JP account, it’s possible to still use your US account as your main.
My situation:
– US account is my main for trophies, subscriptions, save data, etc.
– JP account also logged onto the same system; mainly to buy DLC for any physical games I get here or anything on the store that might not be on the US store
I personally prefer paying through my US credit card, but if you prefer a JP credit card, with the JP store you can pay through that and still only play on your US account.
Assuming you use the JP store for purchases, even if you are considering PlayStation Plus, the online functionality and monthly games can be used by your US account. The only downside is that you cannot take advantage of the cloud storage (only saves from your JP account would then be able to be saved to the cloud). Admittedly I really like this feature which is why I am using my US account for it.
I have an Australian account, but I buy cards from Offgamer.
Play Asia. Buy US PSN credit. Been doing it for 15 years now. I’m not even American.
I’m a pretty old PS user – back when the PS Store didn’t have “Asia”, it just had a Hong Kong store to deal with a bunch of random English speaking countries in Asia.
I’m still stuck to that store because I like my PSN account. (all that trophies and what not)
Never bothered changing it, I just keep paying my home country’s prices.
Did not switch to Japan PSN also because I didn’t want to play the games in Japanese text.