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
Website (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; over 50 puzzles in range) - Snoopy by Everhart (Tom Everhart's reinterpretation of the Peanuts characters) - Umekichi (wispy portrayal of childhood innocence) - Detective Conan (TV anime series) - Lisa et Gaspard (French fantasy creatures) - Morita Toshitaka (scenic photography) - Scenic Japan - Ulrike Schneiders (German flower arranger) - Brambly Hedge (country characters from English artist Jill Barklem) - Fine art
Most of the above links lead to index pages with links for each piece count, but sometimes also for special finish puzzles...
 | 1000 pieces - other sizes similarly |
 | 1000 pieces - calendar puzzle |
 | 300 pieces - paper hologram |
 | 108 pieces - paper hologram |
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)
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. The following links show genres or artists, 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 - Yoshida Hatsusaburô - Tale of Genji - Jizô-san (Buddha) - Other traditional
Illustration: Shu (Mizoguchi Shûichi) - Iwasaki Chihiro - Fujishiro Seiji - Fantastic collection (glowing cottages) - Liliana Frasca - Nagaoka Taku - Shoji Kazunobu - Tanikawa Hiroyuki - MAYA MAXX (designer) - Nakayama Jun'ichi - Stars - Western art - Other art
Scenic: Mt. Fuji - Kyoto - Rest of Japan - World scenery - Pets
Flowers: Flowers - Flower and colour therapy - Feng shui
The Appleone site uses the following icons for puzzle features:
 | Glow-in-the-dark puzzle |
 | Puzzle includes "Apple" piece |
 | Pieces are numbered on the back |
 | Hexachrome printing |
 | Diamond screen super-high quality printing |
 | Compact box |
Beverly
The current Beverly website is easy to navigate, with a full thumbnail index.
There is no "Latest puzzles" page, but at the bottom of this index page is a panel including links to current product news (dates are yyyy/mm/dd):
Puzzle index - thumbnail links
Art collection: Christian Riese Lassen fantastic marine art - Thomas Kinkade - Chinese duo Chen and Pin-Fan - Yuseki Miki (Jizo and others) - Kitada Minoru - Traditional Japanese art - Cartoon characters - Flowers and gardens - Art fantasy (Escher, Josephine Wall, Takaki, and more)
Humour: Heye puzzles - Jan van Haasteren - Tomy - Wasgij
Pets: Hanadeka "bignose" - "Lovely" - "My friend"
Scenic: Landscape - Kyoto panorama series
Budget-priced "Heartful" series: Landscape - Pets - Classic art
Epoch
The Epoch website is fairly easy to view, although it does use enormous pages. Each of the following links should jump to the right point within a page.
Puzzle splash page - Puzzle index - New puzzles
Themes
Art (mostly by artist - nine pages): Yasukawa Shinji - Kuroiwa Toyotaka - Auspicious painting - Mandalas - Haruyo - Peter Motz - Erin Dertner - Sasakura Teppei - Nishino Kentaro - Kirk Reinert - Schim Schimmel - "Wolf art" - Anthony Casay - Muramatsu Makoto - Yoshioka Hideki - Sakurai Yukio - Yamashita Kiyoshi - Takehisa Yumeji - Western classics
Transport: Sailing ships - Modern trains - Battleship Yamato - Aircraft - Steam trains
Characters (two pages): Lupin the third - Galaxy Express 999 - Space Battleship Yamato - Asaki yume mishi: Tale of Genji (Yamato Waki) - Suzumiya Haruhi - The very hungry caterpillar (Eric Carle) - Colobockle (Tachimoto Michiko) - Harry the Dirty Dog (Gene Zion) - Little Black Sambo - Cheburashka -
Pets (two pages): Dogs - Cats - Rabbits
Flowers: Colour therapy - Takako Chiba - Tasha Tudor's garden
Scenic (five pages): Temples - Gardens - Waterfalls - Spring - Autumn - Flowers - Mt. Fuji - Summer - Night views - Flower gardens - World - Tropical resort - Fantastic scene - World heritage
Puzzle varieties
"Super-expert" (very small pieces) - "Expert" (small pieces) - "Mild expert" (smaller puzzles) - "Easy-peasy" (large-piece puzzles) - "Neo Crystal" (translucent puzzles)
By piece count: 300 - 954 panorama - 360 (large) - 500 - 500 (large) - 1000 - 450 (small) - 180 - 108 (large) - 108 - 50 (very large) - 1500 (small) - 2000 - 2016 (very small) - 216 (small)
Icons used on the Epoch site
Piece counts for standard size pieces
Small pieces
Very small pieces
Large pieces
Very large pieces
(Updated June 2007)
Tenyo
Website: Puzzle index
The Tenyo site is not too easy to navigate, as there are no thumbnails at the top level. Almost all of the catalog is Disney - you can may find this page useful: Latest Disney puzzles
Disney index - Mickey and Minnie - Mickey and friends - Disney Babies - Winnie the Pooh - Classic Pooh - Baby Pooh - Ariel - Snow White - Cinderella - Beauty and the Beast - Sleeping Beauty - Aladdin - Princess collection - All characters - The Villains - Toy Story - Nightmare before Christmas - Lilo & Stitch - Chicken Little - Other Disney characters
Disney puzzles by piece count: 144 pcs - 200 pcs - 300 pcs - 500 pcs - World's hardest puzzles 500 pcs - 950 pcs - 1000 pcs - World smallest 1000 pcs - 2000 pcs - 2000 small pcs - 4000 pcs - Other sizes
Note: The product codes all include the piece count. E.g. D-1000-245 is a 1000-piece puzzle.
Yanoman
Website: www.yanoman.co.jp (but most details are on yanoman.com) - separate thumbnail index pages for ordinary puzzles and spherical puzzles...
Scenic: Four seasons - Takeuchi photographs - Train journey - World scenes - Landscape painting - Travel views
Pets: Happy mongrels - Lovely animals
Art: Kagaya - Uchida Shinya - Kajita Tatsuji - Ozuma Kaname - Suzuki Eijin - Norman Rockwell (Covers of the Saturday Evening Post) - Alphonse Mucha (art nouveau) - Classics of western art - Japanese art
Anime and other characters: Wachifield (Akiko Ikeda's curious cats) - Hello Kitty (and others from Sanrio) - NHK characters - Evangelion - Others
Flowers: Fujico Hashimoto - Flowers (photos)
Miscellany: Tiny puzzles - Maps
Spherical puzzle thumbnail index: Terrestrial globes - Celestial globes - Disney (5 pages) - Hello Kitty - Pokemon - Wachifield - (Mizuki Shigeru: no link) - Ultraman - Art - Scenic - Pets - Spherical puzzle accessories (ask for details)
Yanoman Search form:
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 Pokémen / 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.
