This data was sourced directly from real UK currency suppliers and shows the actual price of exchanging Japanese yen to British pounds on any given day.
Over the past 30 days, the Japanese yen has remained stable against the British pound having changed by 0.18% from 0.006102 on 28th December to 0.006113 yesterday. If you were exchanging 20,000 JPY, you would get approximately £122 today compared to £122 on the 28th December.
You can compare today's latest buy back rates and sell Japanese yen on our Japanese yen buy back page.
How we display buy back rates
You might notice the Japanese yen rates shown here are different to the Japanese yen rates offered by currency suppliers on our comparison pages. The rates are actually the same but are just presented in different ways. When we talk about the JPY / GBP exchange rate, we show the JPY rate relative to the pound so a rate of 0.006113 literally means 1 JPY = 0.006113 GBP.
However, UK currency suppliers choose to show this rate in terms of the amount of Japanese yen you would need to exchange to receive 1 GBP, so (1 /) 0.006113 becomes 163.6. Or put another way, 163.6 JPY = 1 GBP. The two rates are interchangeable but currency suppliers prefer to show the second rate which they call the buy back rate.
A snapshot of the Japanese yen / British pound exchange rate over the past 8 years.
| Year | Open | Close | Low | High | Annual Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.006224 | -- | 0.006096 | 0.006299 | -- |
| 2022 | 0.006349 | 0.006219 | 0.005777 | 0.006537 | 2.09% |
| 2021 | 0.007047 | 0.006350 | 0.006248 | 0.007047 | 10.99% |
| 2020 | 0.006854 | 0.006955 | 0.006830 | 0.007787 | -1.45% |
| 2019 | 0.007031 | 0.006851 | 0.006647 | 0.007737 | 2.63% |
| 2018 | 0.006492 | 0.007031 | 0.006401 | 0.007035 | -7.67% |
| 2017 | 0.006792 | 0.006492 | 0.006410 | 0.007246 | 4.61% |
| 2016 | 0.005516 | 0.006797 | 0.005514 | 0.007813 | -18.84% |
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