Find a car
Japan’s auctions. One Rindo Portal.
Explore auction listings across Japan in one place, with a specialist team helping you assess the car, authorise your bid and bring it home.
Rindo Portal
Search, shortlist and ask, in one place.
Rindo Portal is where you explore the listings and where Rindo works alongside you. You do the searching; we do the assessing, checking and bidding on your authorised instruction.
Search
Filter by make, model, year, grade and sale date across the auctions we can access, all in one place.
Shortlist
Save the cars you are considering and keep your notes against each one.
Ask Rindo
Flag any listing and we look into it with you before a single bid is authorised.
Which auctions you can see
Japan’s used cars are mostly sold between the trade at member-only auctions held on fixed days each week. Rindo Portal brings together the listings from the auctions Rindo can access, so you can search them as one catalogue rather than house by house.
We do not claim to cover every auction in Japan. What you see in the portal is what we can genuinely act on for you. If a car you want is being sold somewhere we cannot reach, we will say so and suggest an alternative, including dedicated sourcing.
What a listing shows
Every listing carries the auction house’s own information. Ask us for a cost estimate on any car you shortlist.
Auction report
The auction house’s own inspection sheet: grade, recorded mileage, equipment, damage diagram and inspector notes. We translate and explain it on request.
Photographs
The auction house’s photographs of the exterior, interior and engine bay. Where the house allows, we can ask for more of a specific area.
Sale details
Which auction, the sale date and time in Japan Standard Time, the lot number and the starting price.
Rindo cost estimate
For any car you shortlist, an estimate of the total to your port, with destination costs shown separately, so your maximum bid is set on the whole picture.
Your eyes and ears in Japan
Understanding the car with Rindo
The listing starts the conversation. Before you authorise anything, we investigate the details and tell you what we found.
Our checks and inspections →We read the whole report
Grade, mileage, equipment, damage diagram and the inspector’s handwritten notes, translated and explained, so you know what the sheet does and does not say.
We look beyond the grade
Where the auction allows, we pursue further checks and physical inspections and ask the model-specific questions an experienced owner would ask.
We explain what we find
Findings, limitations and a recommendation on whether to proceed, in writing, before you commit.
Authorised bidding, step by step
You decide the car and the ceiling. Bids are submitted through Rindo on your written instruction and never exceed it.
- Rindo handles
- Partner handles
- You handle
- Shared
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Confirm the deposit
You handleA case-by-case deposit opens complete listings and bidding in Rindo Portal. We tell you the amount and the exact terms before you pay; it is credited to your purchase or refundable if you buy nothing.
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Shortlist cars
You handleSearch and save listings in the portal. Ask us about any car you are considering.
- 3
Review the car with Rindo
Rindo handlesWe assess the auction report and photographs, pursue further checks or an inspection where available, and explain our findings.
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Review the estimated costs
SharedA cost estimate for the car to your port, with destination costs shown separately, so your maximum bid is set on the whole picture.
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Authorise your maximum bid
You handleYou confirm the lot and the highest price you authorise, in writing. Bids are placed through Rindo on your instruction and never exceed it.
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Receive the result
Rindo handlesWon or not won, you hear the same day. If won, the purchase moves to payment.
Customers do not bid in an auction house’s own system. You submit a bidding instruction through Rindo; we place the bid under the access arrangement that applies and report the result to you the same day.
Free to register. Deposit to bid.
Two levels of access, so you can explore before you commit anything.
Free registration
Explore the listings
- Create a Rindo Portal account at no charge and with no deposit.
- Search the auctions, save a shortlist and ask Rindo about any car.
- See restricted vehicle information that the public website does not show.
- Free registration does not include complete listings or bidding.
Deposit access
Complete listings and bidding
- A deposit, set case by case, enables complete listings and the ability to authorise bids.
- We tell you the amount and the exact terms before you pay anything.
- It is credited to your purchase, or refundable if you buy nothing, on the terms given.
- Ask us when you are ready to bid; there is no need to decide at registration.
After a successful bid
The auction decides the hammer price. Everything that follows is the same managed journey as a stock or sourced purchase.
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Pay for the car
After an auction win, you pay the vehicle balance and the agreed Rindo charges, with the applicable deposit credited. For stock and sourcing, the payment terms are those agreed before purchase.
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Arrange shipment
Once the car is acquired, a separate invoice covers freight and loading. We confirm the method and sailing at booking and keep you updated on departure and arrival.
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Import, register and drive
Rindo can handle the import and the arrangements that follow, or you can manage them yourself. The service scope and the expected destination costs are explained before you buy, even where exact figures are confirmed later.
Go deeper before you bid
Car auctions
How Japanese auctions work
Listings, reports, timing, maximum bids and outcomes, explained before your first instruction.
Understand the auction →Condition
Understanding auction sheets
How to read the main fields, the inspector’s notes and the damage diagram.
Read the guide →
Condition
Auction grades and damage markings
What the grades and symbols mean, and why they are only the start.
Read the guide →Start exploring the auctions
Registration is free and takes a minute. When you find a car worth a closer look, we take it from there.