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Which site should you donate through?
The tax result is identical on every portal, and since October 2025 none of them can give points for donating. Pick the one that is easiest for you to use.
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Short answer: use the shopping account you already have. If you have a Rakuten or Amazon account with your address and card saved, your first donation takes about five minutes.
Rakuten Furusato Nozei
- Checkout works like any Rakuten order, with your saved address and card
- Very large selection, with buyer reviews on most gifts
- Order history keeps all donations in one place
No Rakuten points on donations since October 2025. Your card’s own points still apply.
Amazon Furusato Nozei
- Familiar Amazon checkout and order tracking
- Some gifts ship within days, which helps in late December
- Launched December 2024, so fewer towns than the older portals
Search inside the furusato nozei section; ordinary Amazon listings are not donations.
Satofuru
- Its app handles one-stop applications for many towns
- Known for quick delivery on a share of its gifts
- Clear order and receipt history
Selection is smaller than the largest portals.
Furunavi
- Strong on electronics and home appliances
- Travel and restaurant vouchers
- Yearly certificate for tax returns
Appliance gifts need large donations, so they suit higher limits.
Furusato Choice
- Lists the widest range of municipalities
- Good filters by region and by how the town uses donations
- Disaster-relief donations without gifts
The interface is busier than the shopping-site portals.
What is the same everywhere
- Your deduction and your limit. The portal is only the shop window; the donation goes to the municipality.
- The ¥2,000 yearly cost, counted across all portals together.
- The 5-municipality limit for the one-stop exception, also counted across all portals.
- The language: all of them are in Japanese. Your browser’s translate feature handles them well enough.
Using more than one portal
That is fine. Keep your own list of donations, because no portal can see what you gave through another. What matters is the total against your limit and the number of different municipalities.
How to read a gift page
- 寄附金額 (kifu kingaku): the donation amount. This is the "price".
- 発送時期 (hassō jiki): when it ships. Check this before ordering fruit or anything for an occasion.
- 定期便 (teikibin): a subscription, delivered in several instalments.
- ワンストップ特例申請書: the one-stop form. Choose 希望する (I want it).
- 寄附者情報: donor details. Must be you, the taxpayer, at your registered address.
Descriptions reflect each portal as reviewed in November 2026. Order on this page is by how familiar the checkout is to most residents, not by commission.