# Rakuten **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/rakuten/ **Website:** https://global.rakuten.com/corp/ **APIs profiled:** 33 Rakuten Group is a Japan-headquartered internet conglomerate spanning e-commerce (Rakuten Ichiba), fintech (Rakuten Bank, Rakuten Card, Rakuten Securities), digital content (Rakuten Books, Kobo, Viki), travel (Rakuten Travel), telecom (Rakuten Mobile, Rakuten Symphony), and advertising (Rakuten Advertising). Rakuten exposes a long-standing public developer platform — Rakuten Web Services (webservice.rakuten.co.jp) — that offers REST/JSON APIs for searching Ichiba items and genres, books, CDs, DVDs, games, software, magazines, Kobo eBooks, Rakuten Travel hotels (simple, detail, vacant, keyword), Rakuten Recipe, and Rakuten GORA golf courses. All RWS APIs use a Rakuten application ID for authentication and are read-only. Rakuten separately operates merchant-facing RMS (Rakuten Merchant Server) APIs and Rakuten Pay merchant APIs, which are partner-gated. ## Kin Score — 37.0 / 100 (thin) Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 37.0). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 74.1 | | Contract Quality | 53.8 | | Governance | 0.0 | | Contract Governance | 0.0 | | Operational Transparency | 26.3 | | Developer Ergonomics | 31.0 | | Commercial Clarity | 42.1 | | Access Clarity | 42.1 | Regulatory layer — **Telecommunications**: 16.7 (matched via tags). ## Agent readiness — 34.7 (agent-ready) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | derived | | Reversibility Documented | na | | MCP Server | no | | Auth Clarity | yes | | Idempotency | na | | Error Semantics | no | | OpenAPI Examples | no | | Rate Limit Signal | documented | | Event Surface Described | no | | Agent Skills | no | | Well Known Catalog | no | | Consent Identity | no | | Agent Card | no | | Dry Run Mode | na | ## Access Free · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high). ## APIs (33) - **Rakuten Ichiba Item Search API** — Keyword and parameter search across all Rakuten Ichiba marketplace items, returning item titles, prices, images, shop information, and ranking signals. - **Rakuten Ichiba Genre Search API** — Returns the hierarchical genre tree used to categorize items across Rakuten Ichiba, enabling category navigation and browse-based product discovery. - **Rakuten Ichiba Tag Search API** — Returns tags associated with a genre, supporting faceted navigation and refinement of Ichiba item browse. - **Rakuten Ichiba Ranking API** — Returns top-ranked items across Rakuten Ichiba by genre, age, and gender, used for trend and bestseller displays. - **Rakuten Item Price Navi API** — Price Navi (Product Search) returns aggregated product records with multi-shop price comparisons, ratings, and review metadata for Ichiba. - **Rakuten Books Total Search API** — Unified search across all Rakuten Books catalogs (books, CDs, DVDs, games, software, magazines), returning normalized product records and Rakuten Books shop information. - **Rakuten Books Book Search API** — Search Rakuten Books for Japanese-language and translated books by title, author, ISBN, publisher, and other metadata. - **Rakuten Books CD Search API** — Search Rakuten Books CD catalog by title, artist, label, and release date. - **Rakuten Books DVD / Blu-ray Search API** — Search Rakuten Books DVD and Blu-ray catalog including movies, TV, anime, and live performances. - **Rakuten Books Foreign Book Search API** — Search Rakuten Books foreign-language books catalog (mostly English-language). - **Rakuten Books Magazine Search API** — Search Rakuten Books magazine catalog by title, publisher, and issue date. - **Rakuten Books Game Search API** — Search Rakuten Books video game catalog across major consoles and platforms. - **Rakuten Books Software Search API** — Search Rakuten Books PC software catalog. - **Rakuten Books Genre Search API** — Returns the genre tree for Rakuten Books, used for browse and navigation across the unified Books catalog. - **Rakuten Kobo eBook Search API** — Search Rakuten Kobo's eBook catalog for digital reading content across Japanese and international titles. - **Rakuten Kobo Genre Search API** — Returns the Kobo eBook genre hierarchy for browse and filter. - **Rakuten Travel Simple Hotel Search API** — Lightweight keyword and area search over Rakuten Travel's Japanese hotel inventory, returning hotel name, location, and basic descriptors. - **Rakuten Travel Hotel Detail Search API** — Returns full hotel detail records including amenities, addresses, images, and access information for one or more Rakuten Travel hotels by hotel number. - **Rakuten Travel Vacant Hotel Search API** — Searches for hotels with vacancy for given check-in and check-out dates, party composition, and budget filters. - **Rakuten Travel Area Class API** — Returns Rakuten Travel's hierarchical Japanese area classification (prefecture / region / detail), used to scope hotel searches and build location filters. - **Rakuten Travel Keyword Hotel Search API** — Full-text keyword search across Rakuten Travel hotel inventory, with filters for area, price, and rating. - **Rakuten Travel Hotel Chain List API** — Returns the list of hotel chains available on Rakuten Travel, used to scope searches to a specific brand. - **Rakuten Travel Hotel Ranking API** — Returns top-ranked Rakuten Travel hotels by area and category for trend, bestseller, and recommendation displays. - **Rakuten Recipe Category List API** — Returns the Rakuten Recipe category hierarchy (large, medium, small) used for browse navigation of user-submitted Japanese recipes. - **Rakuten Recipe Category Ranking API** — Returns top-ranked recipes within a Rakuten Recipe category, with images, ingredients, and recipe URLs. - **Rakuten GORA Golf Course Search API** — Search Rakuten GORA Japanese golf courses by name, area, and facility attributes. - **Rakuten GORA Golf Course Detail API** — Returns full golf course detail records on Rakuten GORA including holes, yardage, fees, access, and amenities. - **Rakuten GORA Golf Plan Search API** — Search Rakuten GORA tee-time plans by course, date, party size, and budget — used to surface bookable golf rounds. - **Rakuten Pay Merchant API** — Rakuten Pay is Rakuten's e-money / QR payment service for Japan, integrated by merchants directly or via PSPs. The merchant API handles order creation, payment authorization, ca... - **Rakuten RMS (Merchant Server) API** — RMS (Rakuten Merchant Server) is the operational API for Rakuten Ichiba sellers, covering item management, order management, shipping, inventory, and customer messaging. Access ... - **Rakuten Ichibagt API** — The Ichibagt API from Rakuten — 1 operation(s) for ichibagt. - **Rakuten Ichibams API** — The Ichibams API from Rakuten — 1 operation(s) for ichibams. - **Rakuten Ichibaranking API** — The Ichibaranking API from Rakuten — 1 operation(s) for ichibaranking. ## Agentic access (1) - **Rakuten Agentic Access** — 3 operations ## Security (2) - **Rakuten Authentication** — apiKey · 2 schemes - **Rakuten Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC ## Plans (1) - **Rakuten Plans Pricing** ## Tags E-Commerce, Travel, Books, Recipes, Golf, Japan, Fintech, Telecom, Rakuten Web Services --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/rakuten/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.