16 wholesale bunching onion price series from 16 markets in Japan have a forecast. The median series points to little change over the coming weeks (+1.9% by the end of the forecast), against a typical 12-week error of 16%. Below: when bunching onion is usually cheapest and dearest in 1 country.
🇯🇵 Fukuoka City Central Wholesale Market, Produce Market (Vegefru Stadium), Japan
🇯🇵 Hiroshima City Central Wholesale Market, Japan
🇯🇵 Kanazawa City Central Wholesale Market, Japan
🇯🇵 Kitakyushu City Central Wholesale Market, Japan
Prices in each market’s currency and unit. Range: 80%. Typical error: median error at 12 weeks in the test on the series’ own history.
| Quote and market | Latest week | In 4 weeks | In 12 weeks | Change | Typical error |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Welsh onions (negi) 🇯🇵 Fukuoka City Central Wholesale Market, Produce Market (Vegefru Stadium) | 439 JPY/kg | 363–544 | 332–596 | −2.5% | ±12% |
| Welsh onions (negi) 🇯🇵 Hiroshima City Central Wholesale Market | 467 JPY/kg | 384–543 | 376–615 | +1.5% | ±12% |
| Welsh onions (negi) 🇯🇵 Kanazawa City Central Wholesale Market | 378 JPY/kg | 321–496 | 295–618 | +9.2% | ±16% |
| Welsh onions (negi) 🇯🇵 Kitakyushu City Central Wholesale Market | 588 JPY/kg | 396–701 | 336–779 | −12.5% | ±19% |
| Welsh onions (negi) 🇯🇵 Kobe City Central Wholesale Market (Main Market) | 443 JPY/kg | 336–535 | 317–654 | +2.6% | ±17% |
| Welsh onions (negi) 🇯🇵 Kyoto City Central Wholesale Market | 451 JPY/kg | 363–634 | 340–697 | +2.3% | ±18% |
| Welsh onions (negi) 🇯🇵 Okinawa Prefectural Central Wholesale Market | 423 JPY/kg | 335–582 | 322–712 | +8.8% | ±15% |
| Welsh onions (negi) 🇯🇵 Osaka City Central Wholesale Market (Eastern Market) | 325 JPY/kg | 268–428 | 248–519 | +6.8% | ±11% |
| Welsh onions (negi) 🇯🇵 Osaka City Central Wholesale Market (Main Market) | 471 JPY/kg | 396–603 | 368–712 | +0.9% | ±15% |
| Welsh onions (negi) 🇯🇵 Ota Market (Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market) | 414 JPY/kg | 340–552 | 303–621 | −0.6% | ±19% |
| Welsh onions (negi) 🇯🇵 Sapporo City Central Wholesale Market | 274 JPY/kg | 231–359 | 235–456 | +19.4% | ±17% |
| Welsh onions (negi) 🇯🇵 Sendai City Central Wholesale Market (Main Market) | 411 JPY/kg | 321–467 | 315–612 | +3.5% | ±17% |
| Welsh onions (negi) 🇯🇵 Takamatsu City Central Wholesale Market | 488 JPY/kg | 410–574 | 385–683 | +4.1% | ±11% |
| Welsh onions (negi) 🇯🇵 Toshima Market (Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market) | 355 JPY/kg | 286–490 | 269–525 | +0.2% | ±18% |
| Welsh onions (negi) 🇯🇵 Toyosu Market (Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market) | 423 JPY/kg | 339–541 | 321–583 | −1.7% | ±12% |
| Welsh onions (negi) 🇯🇵 Yodobashi Market (Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market) | 329 JPY/kg | 256–455 | 251–475 | +0.1% | ±14% |
Usual wholesale price in each month against the yearly average, by country.
| Country | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Cheapest | Dearest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇯🇵 Japan19 series · 19 markets · 2024–2026 | +4 | +2 | −16 | −11 | −1 | −9 | −4 | +7 | +12 | +8 | +6 | +10 | March | September |
cheaper than the yearly average · dearer · figures in % · no quotes in that month (season or data gap). Monthly averages of each series against its yearly average, after removing the long-term trend such as inflation; median across series and markets of the country, years with at least 10 months of quotes.
The forecasts extend each series’ own seasonal pattern; they do not know about this year’s weather, harvests, policy or currency moves. Use the range, not only the central figure, and do not base trading, purchasing or credit decisions on them alone.
Of 16 bunching onion price series with a forecast, 12 point higher and 4 lower or flat by the end of the forecast; the median series points to little change (+1.9%). The forecasts repeat what the season usually does and are recalculated daily (data of 13 Nov 2026).
In Japan, wholesale bunching onion prices are usually lowest in March (−16.2% against the yearly average) and highest in September (+11.5%), based on 19 price series from 19 markets, 2024–2026.
In tests on the last 52 weeks of each series, the typical 12-week error of the published bunching onion forecasts was 16%. Each series passed the test only because its errors were smaller than those of a “no change” forecast. Results of the archived forecasts are on the accuracy page.
From the wholesale markets and price services listed on each series, as published, in their own currencies and units. Husfarm does not adjust them except to compute weekly and monthly averages.
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