Convert SEK to JPY Swedish krona ↔ Japanese yen Free Online Secure
Type an amount in Swedish krona and read it in Japanese yen at once. The page uses the European Central Bank's reference rate, and tells you which day that rate is from.
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Where these codes and rates come from
The three letters in EUR, USD or JPY are not an abbreviation someone invented for a website: they are ISO 4217, a standard in which the first two letters are the country's own code and the third is usually the initial of the currency. The figures on this page come from the European Central Bank, which publishes one set of reference rates each working day, around 16:00 Central European time, agreed between the central banks of the Eurosystem. They are a daily snapshot meant for statistics and accounting, not a live trading feed — which is exactly why they are the same number for everyone, rather than whatever one bank happened to quote at one moment.
Where you meet an exchange rate
You meet an exchange rate four or five times a year without thinking about it: booking a trip, paying an invoice issued abroad, buying from a foreign shop, reading a salary offer in another currency, or checking what a card charge really cost. In all of these the reference rate is the honest middle, and the price you actually pay sits a little to one side of it. Knowing the middle is what lets you see how wide that margin is.
Questions people ask
Is this the rate my bank will give me?
No, and no page can promise one. This is the European Central Bank's reference rate: the midpoint published once a day for statistics. A bank, a card scheme or an exchange office adds its own margin on top — usually between half a percent and three percent, sometimes more at an airport counter. Use this figure to judge the offer you are given, not to predict it.
How often does the figure change, and what happens at weekends?
The European Central Bank publishes once each working day, in the afternoon, Central European time. There is no publication on Saturdays, Sundays or TARGET holidays, so on those days the page shows the last working day's rate and says which day it belongs to. The chart alongside is one year of the same daily series.
Is the answer exact?
Where both units are defined in terms of one another by whole numbers, yes — the page says so above the figure, and the only rounding is in how many digits are shown. Where the ratio has no finite decimal, the page shows twelve significant digits and says the relation is approximate rather than pretending otherwise.
Does anything I type leave my device?
No. The arithmetic runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded and there is no server to upload it to. Load the page once and it keeps working with the network switched off.
A Swedish doctor on a fan-shaped island: Carl Peter Thunberg, Dejima and the first krona-yen story
In August 1775 a thin, restless Swedish botanist named Carl Peter Thunberg stepped ashore on Dejima, a tiny artificial island in the harbour of Nagasaki, built in the shape of a fan and measuring barely a hundred and twenty metres by seventy-five. It was the only place in all Japan where a European could legally live. For more than two centuries the shoguns had kept the country closed, allowing a handful of Dutch merchants to trade from this island while everyone else was refused. Thunberg was not Dutch. He was a student of Linnaeus, and to reach Japan he had taken a post as a ship's surgeon with the Dutch East India Company, learned Dutch and Malay on the way and kept his real purpose quiet: he wanted to collect plants. In fifteen months he sent home a treasure of more than eight hundred Japanese species, wrote a book called Flora Japonica, and became a teacher of European medicine to Japanese physicians. This page is about a more modest crossing, the one between two currencies. Use it to Convert SEK to JPY with the daily reference rates published by the European Central Bank, in which both the Swedish krona and the Japanese yen are quoted against the euro; the page combines them into a krona-yen figure and prints its date under the result. The amount you type never leaves your browser.
Using the converter
Kronor go in, yen come out
Whenever a price looks strange, type it in and Convert SEK to JPY before you decide it is cheap or dear.
Type a sum in Swedish kronor and the answer appears at once in Japanese yen, with the date of the fixing underneath. One krona buys somewhere in the region of thirteen to fifteen yen, so the result is much larger than the number you typed. The yen has no practical subunit, since the old sen has been out of use for decades, and so every price in Japan is a whole number, which makes comparison easy. A fixing is published once on each working day; on weekends and public holidays the page repeats the last one and says so. A table of round sums and a graph of the last thirty days sit below the box. If you need the opposite direction, from yen into kronor, open Convert JPY to SEK.
A reference, never a promise
A card terminal may call its rate fair, but a quick Convert SEK to JPY with the reference figure shows what it is worth.
The figure on the screen is the midpoint of the market on a working day, before any bank has taken its share. A bureau, a bank or a travel card will quote you less, and the gap in per cent is the price of the service. Under one per cent is excellent, two or three per cent is normal for a card, and anything above four is a good reason to ask elsewhere. Let each Convert SEK to JPY be your yardstick. Every example below uses an invented, round rate of fourteen yen to the krona, chosen only to keep the arithmetic tidy. It is not a forecast and not today's price, so swap in the real figure before you decide anything.
The man from Uppsala
A pupil of Linnaeus
Thunberg paid his way as a surgeon; a modern student can Convert SEK to JPY for a language course in Tokyo and see the cost in a minute.
Carl Peter Thunberg was born in 1743 in a small town in Småland and studied medicine and natural history at Uppsala under Carl Linnaeus, the man who gave every plant and animal its two-part Latin name. Linnaeus sent his best students, whom he called apostles, to the far corners of the world to gather specimens, and several of them died on the way. Thunberg travelled to Paris, Amsterdam and Leiden, then signed on with the Dutch East India Company as a surgeon, and sailed first to the Cape of Good Hope, where he spent three years exploring the interior of southern Africa. In 1775 he reached Batavia, today's Jakarta, and was then sent on to Japan.
Life behind the gate
The Dutch on Dejima lived under strict rules. They could not leave the island without permission, their ships were inspected and their religious books were sealed, and once a year the head of the trading post travelled to Edo, today's Tokyo, to pay respects to the shogun. In 1776 Thunberg joined that journey, a trek of several weeks along the great highways, and used every halt to pick plants by the roadside. Interpreters and physicians who came to see him on the island brought him seeds, branches and questions. He taught them anatomy and the use of mercury against disease, and they taught him names, uses and where to look. His notes are still read by botanists, who found that many of the species he described had never before reached Europe.
What he took home
When he returned to Sweden in 1779 he brought with him thousands of dried specimens, seeds and cuttings. He became a professor at Uppsala, succeeded Linnaeus's son in the chair, and for decades he described what he had seen. A genus of climbing plants with orange flowers, Thunbergia, carries his name. Some of the Japanese maples, camellias and hydrangeas that now grow in Swedish gardens trace their origin to what he or his followers sent. Far from the shogun's capital, a fan-shaped island had made a small hole in a closed door.
Japan and Sweden, then and now
The long diplomatic line
Japan reopened to the world in the 1850s under foreign pressure, and Sweden and Norway signed a treaty of friendship and trade with it in 1868, the year the Meiji era began. Trade grew slowly. Swedish iron and steel, matches and telephones crossed to Japan, while silk and porcelain came the other way. In the twentieth century the link was carried by firms: a Swedish bearing maker, a Swedish telecoms group and the car brand with an old name from Gothenburg all had Japanese partners. Today Japanese companies in electronics and in cars sell in Sweden, while Swedish furniture, clothing and fashion shops sell in Japan. A bookcase assembled in Tokyo from a flat box is a modest but real part of the story.
Cultural cousins
The two countries share a taste for clean lines, small spaces and quiet manners, which is why Japanese design and Swedish design are often shown side by side in exhibitions. Swedish crime fiction and children's books are popular in Japanese translation, and the Moomins, who are Finnish but written in Swedish, are a national favourite. Many Swedes have studied Japanese, and many Japanese come to Sweden for exchange years, for the northern lights and for the Nobel Prize ceremony, which has honoured Japanese scientists and writers many times.
Seasons that match, almost
Spring in both countries is celebrated with blossom. In Japan the cherry blossom, sakura, spreads from south to north through March and April, and whole families spread blankets under the trees for picnics called hanami. In Stockholm a famous avenue of cherry trees in Kungsträdgården draws crowds in April, and the city has a Japanese-style festival there. A Swede who has seen one will find the other familiar.
Travelling to Japan on kronor
Flights and the time zone
Flights from Stockholm to Tokyo take twelve to fourteen hours in the air, and most itineraries add one stop, in Helsinki, the Gulf or another hub. Japan Standard Time is eight hours ahead of Swedish winter time and seven hours ahead in summer. A traveller who wants to call home should plan around the gap. For similar conversions inside Europe, Convert CET to EET shows how a single hour is handled.
Cash is still king, with exceptions
Before you leave, Convert SEK to JPY for the first three days of cash, and take only that with you.
Japan used to be a cash-first country, and much of it still is. Small restaurants, shrines and rural inns often accept only banknotes and coins, although cards and phone payments have spread fast in cities. Convenience-store cash machines accept foreign cards at any hour, but they charge a fee, and the screen may offer to convert the sum into kronor at a bad rate. Refuse that offer and accept the yen. Rechargeable transport cards such as Suica and Pasmo can be topped up and used on trains, buses and in vending machines. Before you carry big sums, Convert SEK to JPY once and write the answer on a card.
Consumption tax and the tourist refund
Prices in shops include a consumption tax of ten per cent, with a lower rate for food to take away. Visitors with a passport can buy certain goods tax-free in larger stores, above a minimum sum per receipt, and the procedure is usually handled at a counter on the same floor. There is no tipping, and staff will often run after you to return coins you leave on the table. A well-known rule of thumb says the price on the label is the price you pay.
Prices on a Japanese trip
Eating, sleeping, moving
For each meal and each night, Convert SEK to JPY and put the total in your diary, so that the week does not run away from you.
A bowl of ramen at a counter costs 900 to 1,300 yen, a set lunch 1,000 to 1,500, an evening meal in a grill house 3,000 to 6,000. A bed in a hostel runs from 3,000 to 5,000, a business hotel 8,000 to 15,000 and a traditional inn with dinner and breakfast 15,000 to 40,000 per person. At the invented rate, a 1,100-yen ramen is about 79 kronor, a 10,000-yen hotel about 714. Trains are the great pleasure: the high-speed line from Tokyo to Kyoto takes a little over two hours and costs roughly 14,000 yen for a reserved seat. Convert SEK to JPY for a rail pass or a single ticket before you decide which is cheaper.
Money for the temples
Entry to a shrine is often free, while a temple garden or castle may charge between 300 and 1,500 yen. A day with a guide costs from 20,000 yen. Museums of art charge 1,000 to 2,500, and the great exhibitions cost more. A day among the shrines of Kyoto, with entries and lunch, comes to 4,000 to 7,000 yen, or 285 to 500 kronor at the invented rate, which is cheaper than many people expect.
Weights, lengths and degrees
Japan uses the metric system, so Swedish travellers will be at ease, but a few local units survive. Rooms are measured in tatami mats, about 1.65 square metres each, and rice and sake are sold in measures called go and sho. For comparisons with the English-speaking world, Convert cm to in and Convert °C to °F give inches and Fahrenheit. Summers are humid and hot, winters in the north are snowy, and the rainy season comes in June.
Reading a Japanese price
Four symbols and a lot of zeros
In shops you will meet the yen sign, ¥, the character 円 pronounced en, and prices written either way. Large numbers are grouped in tens of thousands rather than thousands, so Japanese speakers say man for ten thousand, and a note worth 10,000 yen is called ichiman-en. For a Swede, trained to see thousands, this takes a few days to feel natural. A useful trick is to read the price in man and then divide the full figure by fourteen: at the invented rate of fourteen yen per krona, 30,000 yen is three man, or about 2,143 kronor. Check each large price in the converter above, and the habit will soon be automatic.
Coins and notes
The coins are 1, 5, 10, 50, 100 and 500 yen, and the notes 1,000, 5,000 and 10,000, redesigned in 2024 with three-dimensional holograms. The five-yen coin has a hole and is considered lucky; shrine visitors throw one as an offering, since the word for five yen sounds like the word for good fortune. The coins are handy, because vending machines on every corner sell hot and cold drinks for 130 to 200 yen. A vending machine in winter sells warm canned coffee, which is a wonderful invention.
A week in Japan, with figures
An imagined budget
Take a traveller who spends seven days in Tokyo and Kyoto, staying in business hotels and eating in ordinary restaurants. Accommodation at 10,000 yen per night costs 70,000 yen, food at 4,000 per day 28,000, local transport at 1,000 per day 7,000, the fast train between the cities 14,000, and temples, museums and a show 15,000, together 134,000 yen. At the invented rate this is about 9,570 kronor, plus the flight. Convert SEK to JPY for the whole budget first, then for each category, so that you can see where the money goes and where you can save.
Where to save
Lodging is the easiest place: a capsule hotel or a hostel can halve the bill, and a room in a suburb on the train line is cheaper than one in the centre. Food is the second: set lunches are cheap, and convenience stores serve rice balls and sandwiches of surprising quality for a few hundred yen. Do not skimp on the rail passes, but compare them with single tickets before buying, since a pass pays off only on long routes.
Where not to save
A travel insurance policy that covers hospital bills is worth its price, since foreign patients pay in full. A phone plan or an eSIM is also worth buying, because maps and translation apps do most of the guiding. Both can be bought in kronor before you leave, so Convert SEK to JPY only for what you will spend on the ground.
Festivals and seasons for the calendar
Spring and autumn
The two best seasons are spring, when the cherry trees bloom, and autumn, when the maples turn red. Both are crowded, and prices rise, so book flights and hotels three or four months in advance. Winter is cheaper and clear, with the Alps of Japan open for skiing, and a hot spring in the snow is one of the great pleasures of the country. Summer is hot and humid, with festivals and fireworks in July and August.
Festivals worth a detour
Gion Matsuri in Kyoto, held every July, parades enormous floats through the old streets; the Awa Odori in Tokushima in August fills the town with dancers; and the Sapporo Snow Festival in February builds sculptures the size of houses. Entry is free for most events, but reserved seats cost 3,000 to 10,000 yen. Take these into account when you Convert SEK to JPY for the whole trip.
A word on manners
Take off your shoes where there are tatami or a raised entrance, do not talk loudly on trains, and carry your own rubbish until you find a bin. You can hand over money on a small tray at the till; do not put it in the shopkeeper's hand. These small habits cost nothing and earn warm smiles.
Other krona conversions
If the trip continues
Travellers who travel on from Japan to Australia can use Convert SEK to AUD, those who change planes in the Gulf or return through Europe Convert SEK to EUR, and those who stop over in America Convert SEK to USD. For the sum of the yen against the euro, see Convert EUR to JPY.
A note to keep
After every exchange, write the rate and the date on the receipt. At home you can compare it with the card statement in a minute.
Mistakes to avoid
Counting zeros wrong
A pocket calculator helps with the zeros, and so does a quick Convert SEK to JPY with a smaller sum first.
Yen amounts have many digits, and a misplaced zero turns a lunch into a car. Convert SEK to JPY and read the answer aloud before paying.
Paying in kronor at the machine
Take the yen, go home and Convert SEK to JPY to see how much the machine's own rate would have cost you.
When a Japanese cash machine offers to charge you in kronor, it uses its own rate. Choose yen.
Trusting an old rate
A rate from last month can be wrong by several per cent. The date beside the result protects you whenever you Convert SEK to JPY.
In short
Only the table of daily rates is fetched from the network; your amount stays in the browser and no account is needed. From a fan-shaped island in Nagasaki to a vending machine in Tokyo, one habit stays useful: Convert SEK to JPY, look at the date and weigh every offer against the figure on this page.