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Kokuyo Planner

soft demand (-49.1% this quarter) — Kokuyo Planner doesn't clear our bar today.

Flapen Score

47
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Ranks 197 of 426 Office Products niches · on the category median

Market size 96Growth 0Conversion 19Competition 71Returns 44Price range 88Avg price 95Brand share 0Review moat 88Quality gap 21
This niche Category average · 426 niches

Is Kokuyo Planner profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United States niche tracking, Kokuyo Planner is a $2.8M/yr Amazon United States market (5.4M searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 100% of demand. Verdict: Skip it — 47/100.

Kokuyo Planner: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Not really. Search demand moved -49.1% over the last 90 days and 1.5% of searches end in a purchase.

$2.8M

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr80K
Search volume / yr-49.1%5.4M
Conversion rate1.5%
Avg price$33.97

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 100% of demand, so 0% of the market is open.

0%

open market share

Brands · sellers4 · 92
Top-5 product click share43%
Open market0%
Avg brand age40 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.7★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 31 products

Sponsored placement55%
New entrants (1y)17· 11 succeeded
Avg rating4.7★
Avg reviews231

Top Kokuyo Planner products & what they sell for

Every tracked product — its share of the shelf, its review moat, and what it sells for.

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 43% of clicks — established leaders, but buyers still shop beyond them.

$0$140K$280K$420K$559K1101001K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

4 falling

Sellers

92

Top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

43%

Top 20: 87%

Open market

0%

  • ほぼ日86%
  • receip11%
  • MUJI2%
  • Fromthenon1%

Kokuyo Planner demand & seasonality

Weekly search volume, with the niche's key stats alongside.

Volume5.4MCVR1.5%Products31Brands4Top 5 Brands100%OOS Rate50.8%Rating4.7★Reviews231Avg BSR#1,266
90K70KSpike '26Mar '26Apr '26Apr '26May '26May '26May '26Jun '26Jun '26

Top Kokuyo Planner search terms shoppers use

The exact queries shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth and conversion.

  • hobonichi1.3M/yr
  • hobonichi weeks844K/yr
  • hobonichi cousin225K/yr
  • hobonichi planner916K/yr
  • hobonichi a6117K/yr
  • hobonichi weeks 2026354K/yr
  • hobonichi techo77K/yr
  • hobonichi a569K/yr
  • muji planner171K/yr
  • japanese planner85K/yr

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Kokuyo Planner

What buyers mention most, as a share of all reviews.

What buyers love

80% of reviews
Document Organizing/Classification21%

Great for organizing

Paper Quality17%

Beautiful paper

Size-Overall12%

Fits perfectly

Quality-Overall7%

Arrived quickly, great quality

Value For Money7%

Great price

What buyers complain about

57% of reviews
Value For Money13%

Too expensive

Size-Overall12%

Small

Paper Quality10%

Paper is a little thinner than expected

Thickness6%

thick

Durability5%

Not durable

Kokuyo Planner return rate & reasons

Why buyers send it back, as a share of all return requests.

3.5%

Return rate

72%

Fixable by listing

The "fixable" share counts expectation-mismatch reasons — size, look, advertised-vs-actual — that better copy and images address.

1Size-Overall
57%
2Paper Quality
9%
3Value For Money
8%
4Advertised Vs Actual Product
7%
5Product Condition
3%

Common Kokuyo Planner questions

The questions sellers ask about this niche, answered from the tracked metrics.

Flapen scores Kokuyo Planner 47/100 on Amazon United States — Skip it. The niche generates $2.8M/yr across 31 tracked products. 11 of 17 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved -49.1% over the last 90 days.
Kokuyo Planner buyers on Amazon United States complain most about Value For Money, Size-Overall, Paper Quality, the themes mined from the niche's reviews. Its return rate is 3.5%.