Japan Photos & Photography in Japan. A subreddit for photos of beautiful Japan! Member of the /r/NationalPhotoSubs network. Founded 2012 · 470.5K members · links only
471.4K members. The best post we have captured here reached
30.5K upvotes, which works out to
65 per 1,000 members.
The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.
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Image 62%Gallery 33%Link 5%
The topics it labels
Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.
Cities 70Nature 47Sightseeing 29Architecture 21Food 5Festivals/Events 4*Sakura in Kawagoe, Saitama 1kagawa prefecture, shikoku 1[insert resolution tag here] 1
What the ceiling looks like
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/japanpics?
r/japanpics ("Japan Photos & Photography in Japan") describes itself this way: A subreddit for photos of beautiful Japan! Member of the /r/NationalPhotoSubs network. It was founded in 2012 and has 470.5K members.
How many members does r/japanpics have?
r/japanpics has about 471.4K members. ViralHunt has tracked 405 of its posts; the biggest reached 30.5K upvotes, which is 65 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/japanpics?
"I Visited Every ‘Your Name’ Location In Japan" reached 30.5K upvotes and 291 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/japanpics.
What subreddits are similar to r/japanpics?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/alaska, r/popculture, r/BlueskySkeets, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite.
What kind of posts do best on r/japanpics?
Of the posts we hold, 62% are image posts and 33% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/japanpics?
Across 405 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 08:00 UTC (5.3K avg upvotes), Saturday at 16:00 UTC (3.7K avg upvotes), Monday at 14:00 UTC (3.4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/japanpics?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/japanpics has 4.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 37 posts from it in the last 30 days.
See what is climbing here before you write
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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/japanpics, not everything the
community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is
weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.
Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed.
See how we measure.