August 1996, Starbucks Coffee Japan opens it's first Starbucks store outside North America in Tokyo 's Ginza district. Today the company has over 800+ Japanese locations.

The Japanese Starbucks cards are issued with English on the front and Japanese on the back. To date, Japan has eleven (11) exclusive designs including the Daruma, Dolphin, the 2005 Special Olympics, Siren Card, the Sakura Card and the six "city" Cards - released in June, 2010.

Cards issued to Japan are only good at the Starbucks locations there, but still highly collectable with collectors around the world.

Japan, like Taiwan, requires a customer to purchase a Starbucks Card first, then the customer can add funds to the Card. This is one reason that Cards from Japan can cost a bit more. In Japan, Starbucks Cards are only valid for three (3) years.

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