Looking for other puzzles? We can now order any currently available puzzles, and this page is here to help you find them in the manufacturers' online catalogs. Note: by default, the external links on this page open in the same window.
Request form
Please use the following form, giving as much information as you can: ideally a manufacturer name and catalog number, or a link to the web page where you found a puzzle. Once we have identified a particular puzzle you want, it should not normally take more than two or three weeks to obtain, often less.
- Ask about any puzzles at all - but please note that they do tend to go out of production after a few years, so if it's something you saw in Hong Kong ten years ago, I'm afraid there is usually no chance of finding it now.
- Not all of the manufacturers have websites, and those that do tend to completely reorganise them frequently, so these links will tend to break. Please let me know if something isn't working.
- See the Japanese puzzle manufacturers page for more general info - historical notes and so on.
Apollo-sha
Apollo website: http://www.apollo-sha.co.jp/ (This index page is not very helpful, because there are no thumbnails, but it does show new puzzle releases.)
Peanuts (Charles M. Shulz's ever-popular Snoopy and gang): 2014 pieces - 950 pieces (panorama) - 1000 pieces - 300 pieces - 300 pieces paper hologram - 108 pieces
Gaspard et Lisa (French fantasy creatures): 1000 pieces - 500 pieces - 300 pieces - 108 pieces
3D puzzles: 500 pieces - 108 pieces
Umekichi (wispy portrayal of childhood innocence): 2014 pieces - 1000 pieces - 500 pieces - 300 pieces
Detective Conan (TV anime series): 500 pieces
Morita Toshitaka (scenic photography): 1500 small pieces - 1000 pieces - 500 pieces - 300 pieces
Muramatsu Yukie: Photographs
Japan journey: Scenic puzzles
Ulrike Schneiders (flower photographs): 2014 pieces - 1000 pieces - 500 pieces - 300 pieces
Fine art: Puzzles
Apollo also have a large range of Educational toys: here is a list of the main links - you will need to experiment with clicking the coloured links at the bottom of the second level pages (which are all images, so machine translation services are no real help, unfortunately). Please ask if you are looking for specific children's puzzles, for example for learning hiragana or katakana.
Cube puzzles (block puzzles) - Panorama puzzles (three-panel simple puzzles) - Children's puzzles (click the piece counts, from 10 to 63) - Wooden shape puzzles (click the logos at the bottom: Dick Bruna, Thomas the Tank Engine, etc)
Icons used on the Apollo site for puzzle features
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(Updated May 2010)
Appleone
The Appleone website is here: www.appleone.co.jp. Check for updates: Latest puzzles.
It's probably best to start at the puzzle index, which includes some thumbnail links. Each of the following links shows a topic or artist, with ten puzzles on each page. Use the '0|1|2' links at the bottom of each page to see more.
Japanese art
Ozuma Kaname - Ogasawara Etsuko - Ishikawa Mari - Yoshida Hatsusaburo - Other traditional
Illustration
Shu Mizoguchi - Iwasaki Chihiro - Fujishiro Seiji - Yoshitaka Amano - Fantastic collection (glowing cottages) - Liliana Frasca - Nagaoka Taku - Tanikawa Hiroyuki - Nakayama Jun'ichi - Mandalas - Collections (banknotes and coins) - Maps - Other art
Characters
Akatsuka Fujio (comic artist) - Ishinomori Shotaro (manga artist) - Transformers - Model cars and trains - Sugar bunnies
Scenic
Mt. Fuji - Kyoto - Rest of Japan - World scenery - Racehorses - Pets - Outer space
Flowers
Fortune flowers - Flowers (photographs)
Miscellaneous puzzles
Icons used on the Appleone site for puzzle features
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(Updated June 2010)
Beverly
The Beverly website is easy to navigate, with a full thumbnail index: www.be-en.co.jp/index.php. Check for updates: Latest puzzles. Puzzle index: Puzzle index.
The following links go directly to the puzzles for each topic or artist; when there are two or more pages, use the 'PREV' and 'NEXT' buttons to navigate through them.
Main puzzle menu
Christian Riese Lassen - Yuseki Miki (Jizo and others) - Tiny pieces - Educational puzzles - Tiny pieces (with magnifying glass!) - Shape puzzles - Military history - Hiroshi Watanabe - McKnight - Art fantasy - Art classics - Cartoon characters (Chibi Gallery, Gundam, Monster Hunter,Suzy's zoo and more) - Traditional Japanese art - Pets - Thomas Kinkade - Flowers and gardens - Scenic puzzles - Art classics (heartful series) - Miscellaneous - Magnifying glasses (for tiny pieces!)
Icons used on the Beverly site for puzzle features
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(Updated April 2010)
Epoch
Epoch website update
Sorry! The Epoch website has been updated, and all of the original links in our guide are broken. Until I can repair this properly, I'll leave the English titles as a guide - but many of the links may not work properly, or at all.
The Epoch website is fairly easy to view, although it does use enormous pages. Each of the links below should jump to the right point within a page.
Puzzle intro page - now leads to separate index pages for each genre... New puzzles
Expert and graded puzzles
Graded puzzles - Ultra-expert - Super-expert - Expert - Want-to-be-expert - Slightly expert - Expert panorama format
Art (eight pages)
Yasukawa Shinji - Kuroiwa Toyotaka - Auspicious painting - Harai Kayomi - Mandalas - Morita Haruyo - Kimura Keigo - Nakajima Chinami - Yoshida Keiji - Oda Yoshio - Peter Motz - Mari - Sasakura Teppei - Kentaro Nishino - Wildlife - Fairies - Yamashita Kiyoshi - Western classics - Woodblock prints (Ukiyo-e masterpieces)
Maps
Nature
Characters (two pages)
Suzumiya - Lucky Star - Red Cliffs - Devil Kings (known in Japan as Sengoku Basara) - The very hungry caterpillar (Eric Carle) - Colobockle (Tachimoto Michiko)
Pets (two pages)
Flowers
Colour therapy - Flower arrangements - Flower photos - Tasha's garden (Lovingly tended by Tasha Tudor)
Scenic (five pages)
Temples - Waterfalls - Castles - Gardens - Tokyo tower - Spring - Autumn - Floral landscape - Fireworks - Mt. Fuji - Spring green - Night views - Flower gardens - Street flowers - Railway journey - World views - Tropical resort - World heritage
Transport
Shinkansen - Battleships - Steam locomotives
Personalities
Saotome Taichi (female impersonation actor)
Icons used on the Epoch site
Piece counts for standard size pieces
Small pieces
Very small pieces
Large pieces
Very large pieces
(Updated June 2009)
Tenyo
Tenyo website: jigsaw puzzle introduction page - main catalog page
The Tenyo site is not easy to navigate. In almost all cases, there is no thumbnail index — so each of the following links leads to a page with a list of titles in Japanese, and you will need to click them one by one to see the puzzles. They are ordered by Japanese title, with different sizes mixed up together. The exception is the thumbnail list of new Disney puzzles which you may find useful: Latest Disney puzzles
Disney puzzles by character
Mickey and Minnie - Mickey and friends - Disney babies - Pooh and friends - Baby Pooh - Alice in Wonderland - Ariel - Snow White - Cinderella - Beauty and the Beast - Princess collection - All characters - Villains - Toy Story - Nightmare before Christmas - Lilo and Stitch - Pirates of the Caribbean - Cars - Ratatouille
Disney puzzles by size
108 pcs - 144 pcs - 200 pcs - 300 pcs - 500 pcs - 500 small pcs - Most difficult (World's most difficult 500 pieces) - 950 panorama - 1000 pcs - 1000 tiny pcs - 2000 pcs - 2000 small pcs - 4000 pcs - Other sizes
Disney: special features and series
Photo frame insert - Glow-in-the-dark - Paper hologram - Calendar puzzles - Crystal hologram - Whimsies (Silhouette pieces) - Fragrance - "Best friends" - "A little encounter" - "Still in my mind" - Metamorphosis of Mickey - "My dear baby" - Tiny pieces (World's smallest ) - Crystal ("Stained art") - Crystal + Small pieces ("Stained art gyutto") - Crystal + Small pieces ("Stained art gyutto" 266 pcs) - "Minnie up!" - Mystic art - World's most difficult - Vivid six ("Vivid magic") - Small pieces ("Gyutto size") - Zzzzz... (dreaming series) - Cork - "Colours of light" - Lumina magic (Glows in the dark with a different picture) - Square pose - Art illusion (Full-colour glow-in-the-dark) - Modern Japanese style - Heart-shaped crystal - Message puzzle
Non-Disney puzzles
Memories of Showa - Ghosts (Hokusai prints) - Rhythm of Salsa - Emi Mariduki (small-piece crystal puzzles) - Kai-kun (captioned dog pictures) - Emi Mariduki (four seasons) - World's most difficult - Art classics - Maurits Cornelis Escher
Icons on puzzle list pages: the website indications of availability are not always reliable, but here they are:
In stock (shown by a shopping cart on the individual puzzle pages)
Out of stock (similar message in red on the individual puzzle pages)
(Updated May 2010)
Note: The product codes all include the piece count. E.g. D-1000-245 is a 1000-piece puzzle.
Yanoman
Yanoman website: http://www.yanoman.com
The Yanoman site has separate catalogs (also accessible with the tabs at the top of the Yanoman page) for different types of puzzle.
Regular puzzles
Petit: Postcard size puzzles
"Simple style": Budget packaged puzzles
Heart-shaped puzzles: Two-sided - Sweets - Flowers
Scenic puzzles: Four seasons - Train journey - Travel views - Worldwide - Japan
Art puzzles: Kagaya Yutaka - Shinya Uchida - Kajita Tatsuji - Ozuma Kaname - K-saku (Kanji art from Ikkudou) - Matsumoto - Senko - Zigen Tanabe - Tsuyoshi Nagano - Alphonse Mucha (art nouveau) - Classics of western art - Japanese art - Mandalas
Character puzzles: Wachifield - Hello Kitty - NHK characters - Pocket Monsters - Evangelion - Penelope - Gaspard et Lisa - Snoopy - Gundam - Worldwide animation - Anime and video games - Miscellaneous
Pets: Lovely animals
Flowers: Fujico - Blooming collection
Miscellaneous: Celebrities - Maps
Accessories: Puzzle glue and storage
Spherical puzzles
Astronomy: Heavenly bodies - The earth
Characters: Disney Studios - Hello Kitty - Pocket monsters - Wachifield - Doraemon - Snoopy - Miscellaneous
Sport: Soccer
Fortune: Lucky Daruma
Miscellaneous: Art - Money-box puzzles (cylindrical puzzles) - Heart puzles
Accessories: Spherical puzzle accessories
Disney catalog
Postcard size puzzles: Stitch - Mickey and friends - Pooh - Pixar - Others
Frames: Disney frames (for "Petit" puzzles)
Wooden puzzles: Stitch
3D puzzles: Big face - Heart-shaped puzzles - Money-box puzzles - Spherical puzzles
Heart-shaped puzzles: Mickey and friends - Pooh
(Updated July 2010)
Others
Road
A good range of scenic puzzles, generally of particularly high quality, plus Moomin Characters, and cartoon versions of: Heidi, Raccoon Rascal, Anne of Green Gables. Unfortunately, they do not appear to have a website.
Please ask with any specific requests – meanwhile it may help to look at these scans of the 2006-2007 catalog "Character" puzzles, 300-2000 pieces:
Page 1 (300 pcs) -
Page 2 (300/500 pcs) -
Page 3 (950 panorama / 1000 pcs) -
Page 4 (1000 pcs) -
Page 5 (1000/2000 pcs)
NB This is the latest catalog we have, and not all of these are available. We will try to update soon.
Artbox
This brand is made by Amada Printing Co., and marketed by their offshoot, a company called Ensky. Lots of animation: we have a growing selection of the Studio Ghibli puzzles, but there are also many TV anime characters, including Pokémon / Pocket monsters, Dragonball Z, One piece, Naruto, Bleach, and Ultraman.
Unfortunately, their website is designed not to be viewable unless you can navigate in Japanese, and not to be bookmarked. If you want to try, the index page is here:
http://www.ensky.co.jp/
This address should lead to the "genre" index:
https://www.sky-field.net/ai/webshop/WspGenreList.jsp?ShubetsuCode=201
If you see the green tab selected, and mouse over the row of single characters underneath (a-ka-sa-ta-na-ha-ma-ra-wa give popups for different characters in Japanese phonetic order; then there are kanji for "Korean collection" - "Scenery" - "Art" - "Other"). These are not all puzzles, though - there are other products such as trading cards mixed in.
If you get a plain white page, this is probably telling you you have arrived from the 'wrong' link. (I.e. you are only really supposed to view a page if you have just been viewing another page?) But just try clicking the "Log in again" link at the bottom, and it will probably work. Good luck!
Miscellaneous
Here's a Google search for 'Jigsaw puzzle(s)' in Japanese.
