About Rindo
Enthusiasts, working for your next car.
Rindo Japan is a team of car enthusiasts who represent you, the buyer. We are your eyes and ears in Japan: we find the car, check it properly, buy it on your instruction and bring it to your door with every step explained.
Why Rindo exists
Buying from Japan should not mean buying blind
Rindo Japan was set up to give individual buyers and dealers a clear, well-explained route to vehicles in Japan: stock, auctions and dedicated sourcing, with the purchase and export managed from start to finish.
Japan has some of the best-kept cars in the world and a market that is hard to read from outside it: auction sheets in Japanese, dealers who do not export, and costs that only become clear after the hammer falls. Rindo sits on your side of that gap. We explain before you commit, put condition first and give you one person to deal with from brief to handover.
Rindō (林道) means forest road. It is also how we work: patiently, precisely, and with every turn explained.
The people behind your purchase
Enthusiasts first, with the experience to know what to check and whom to ask.
Team profiles to follow
We are adding introductions to the people who handle Rindo purchases and the experience each brings. Until then, the quickest way to get to know us is to ask us about a car.
林道THE RINDO WAY
A forest road, taken carefully.
Rindō means forest road. It is how we work: patient, precise, and explained at every turn.
Explain before you commit
Every stage of the process, every cost line and every document is written down on this site before a customer is asked to decide anything.
Condition first
Auction sheets are translated and read carefully, and additional inspections are arranged where they add real information. Limits of what an inspection can tell you are stated, not glossed over.
One point of contact
From the brief to the handover, the same team coordinates the auction, transport, export preparation and shipping, so you deal with one person throughout.
A portal for the detail, a person for the decisions
Rindo Portal holds the information; the Rindo team helps you weigh it.
Rindo Portal
A free account gives access to restricted vehicle information, and existing customers follow their purchase, documents and payment stages there. When you are ready to bid, a case-by-case deposit opens complete listings and bidding, with the exact terms set out before you pay.
Register freePersonal guidance
A listing does not tell you whether a car is right for you. The same person reads the sheet with you, arranges the checks you want, confirms the costs and answers the questions, from the first enquiry to the handover.
Ask a questionIndividual and dealer buyers
One buying process, scaled to how you buy.
Buying one car, done properly
A single purchase with the condition checked, the costs listed in full and the destination stages explained for your country, written for people importing from Japan for the first time.
See the buying processDealers and repeat buyers
The same stock, auctions, sourcing and portal, with a standing brief, grouped bidding and consolidated shipping arranged around your buying pattern.
For dealersTalk to Rindo about your next car
Questions about a vehicle, a destination or how we work: ask and we will reply by email.