ID photo booths in Japan

This directory lists 22,369 ID photo booth locations across Japan — the self-service passport photo booths known locally as 証明写真機 — drawn from the official lists that three operators publish for their four brands (checked 2026-09-25). Each entry comes with its address, supported features and a map link. The unit is a location, not a machine count.

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Prices vary by machine and location, and the price on the machine’s screen is final. What each operator publishes on its own website is collected on ID photo booth prices in Japan.

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Three operators, four brands

Operators and brands are listed alphabetically; the order is not a ranking.

Operator	Brands	Official figure	Our count (locations)
DNP Photo Imaging Japan (Dai Nippon Printing group)	ID-Spot, Ki-Re-i	9,400 units announced in 2022 (planned figure)	7,964
Fuso Precision	ID VOX	— (our count is the official location list itself)	1,320
ME Group Japan	Photo-Me	“About 14,000 locations nationwide” (company statement) (press release)	13,085
Total			22,369

Official figures and our counts use different units (locations, machines, planned units) and different dates. They sit side by side for reference only; subtracting one from the other says nothing reliable about growth or decline.

Features by brand

Brand	Locations	My Number card application	Digital copy	Skin smoothing	QR payment	Background colour choice	Transit IC cards
ID-Spot	1,108	324	324	54	871	—	—
Ki-Re-i	6,856	6,318	6,273	1,331	5,140	—	286
ID VOX	1,320	500	1,316	0	1,307	1,282	—
Photo-Me	13,085	7,166	7,889	12,968	—	—	—
Total	22,369	14,308	15,802	—	7,318	1,282	286

Feature counts follow each operator’s own labels. “My Number” means you can apply for a My Number card directly at the machine; “Digital copy” means you can receive the photo data (ME Group’s cloud service, DNP’s “With Smartphone” service, or the ID VOX app); “Skin smoothing” reflects ME’s beauty mode and DNP’s skin-correction label (the built-in beauty mode on Ki-Re-i machines may not carry this label). Definitions differ by operator, so the numbers are not comparable across operators.

Three more columns follow the operators’ own labels: “QR payment” appears only on the DNP (Ki-Re-i, ID-Spot) and ID VOX lists, “Transit IC cards” only on the Ki-Re-i list, and “Background colour choice” only on the ID VOX list. The Photo-Me list has no payment field, and DNP labels its background-changing feature separately as Excellent Mode, so a missing field does not mean a machine lacks the feature. Which documents accept a coloured background is covered in background colours for ID photos.

448 of the Ki-Re-i locations have the older carina model.

If you need to upload a photo for an online application — renewing a Japanese passport online, for example — look for “Digital copy”. To apply for a My Number card, look for “My Number”: you can submit the application at the machine right after the shoot. Every prefecture page lets you filter by both.

Four things to settle before you shoot

Background colour, the digital file, the size, and My Number Card applications. All four are decided before you step into the booth, and getting one wrong usually means shooting again. Each page states which operator publishes what.

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Browse by prefecture

Ordered by prefecture code (the customary JIS order), never ranked by count.

Browse by prefecture, then city

Every city, town or ward with 10 or more locations has its own page, and each designated city also has a citywide page. Smaller places are listed on their prefecture page.

Hokkaido (15)

Aomori (6)

Iwate (6)

Miyagi (11)

Akita (6)

Yamagata (7)

Fukushima (8)

Ibaraki (18)

Tochigi (13)

Gunma (9)

Saitama (36)

Chiba (30)

Tokyo (46)

Kanagawa (17)

Niigata (7)

Toyama (5)

Ishikawa (5)

Fukui (5)

Yamanashi (4)

Nagano (10)

Gifu (12)

Shizuoka (17)

Aichi (33)

Mie (9)

Shiga (10)

Kyoto (11)

Osaka (31)

Hyogo (16)

Nara (8)

Wakayama (3)

Tottori (3)

Shimane (3)

Okayama (4)

Hiroshima (8)

Yamaguchi (10)

Tokushima (3)

Kagawa (4)

Ehime (6)

Kochi (1)

Kochi (73)

Fukuoka (19)

Saga (5)

Nagasaki (5)

Kumamoto (4)

Oita (5)

Miyazaki (4)

Kagoshima (7)

Okinawa (11)

Designated cities

Browse by brand

Browse by host venue

Grouped by the location name in the official lists (our own grouping, not the operators’). Only chains and venue types with at least 100 locations are shown, ordered by type rather than by count.

Shops

Public facilities

Stations

Sources and limitations

Sources: the official location search pages and lists of ME Group Japan, DNP Photo Imaging Japan and Fuso Precision (checked 2026-09-25).
Official brand pages: ID-Spot / Ki-Re-i, ID VOX, Photo-Me
An official list only shows that an operator says a booth is there — not that it is still working today. Check with the host store or station before you make a special trip.
Smaller operators such as 三吉工業 (プロ写真館), 北菱プリントテクノロジー and 東京富士カラー do not publish location lists, so their booths are not included. A place missing from this list may still have an ID photo booth.
Map positions for Photo-Me, Ki-Re-i and ID-Spot are the operators’ own coordinates. The ID VOX list has no coordinates, so those 1,320 addresses were geocoded with the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan’s address search; positions may be slightly off.
Prices vary by machine and location, and the price on the machine’s screen is final. What each operator publishes on its own website is collected on ID photo booth prices in Japan.
This is an independent, neutral directory with no affiliation to the operators listed. It does not rank or recommend any of them.