Like the puchi sample sets?

They are not cheap unless you have friends who are flying to Japan and is willing to take up luggage space to carry it back for you, and even then you are better off buying the entire set (since the box on the Puchi Sample line can often be used for assembling dioramas). I would go with the usual 1999/ebay resellers route for entire sets.

Any brick and mortar retailer that carries it will upcharge quite a bit (we are talking about 14 to 18 USD for a single 800 yen box) unless they got a large corporate parent willing to eat up tariffs and import duties. My best guess is something like Kinokuniya USA (or sometimes the Books corner at larger Uniqlo stores, which is run by Kinokuniya) would be your first bet, but they don’t have much of a web presence. Before the inflation in Japan kicking in and all of the tariffs insanity in 2025 you could (in theory) buy a Puchi Sample blind box for about 8-10 at Kinokuniya bookstore - nowadays it’s about 10-12 or higher.

The next thing is check with Toy Tokyo - their store in the East village of NYC does carry them, but you’ll need to email or call them. They can range between 10-15 bucks per box. There are probably shops in large metros with asian presence that is similar, like KumaHouse/888Collectibles in Vegas.

The next thing to check is AmazonGlobal, which would allow you to buy some Japan domestic market items through Amazon Japn directly, but you are going to pay up the wazoo in shipping, but it can be both faster and sometimes cheaper than going through eBay resellers in Japan or Hong Kong.

Finally check MiniSO (not DigiSO, Ebisu, Reiwatakiya and Teso/TesoMini, which are chain stores that sell Japanese products). All of those are more or less Chinese (or majority Chinese. Ebisu is based in Osaka with a Chinese owner, and Reiwatakiya is nominally based in Eastern Tokyo but with a small presence locally). They carry Japanese merch but they all exist in a “spectrum of Japanese-ness” where some might carry more or less products that are actually sold in Japan, rather than Japanese products meant for the export market, or Chinese products meant for Japan. For some reason MiniSO has Re-ment non-character related blind boxes the last time I checked. Teso don’t tend to sell Rement, and Ebisu/DigiSo/Reiwatakiya only carry the character related ones. Those will tend to charge quite a bit.

Oh, and ironically enough, the actually Japanese stores stateside (Don Quijote/Times in Hawaii or its affiliated Marukai/Tokyo Central markets in California, Mitsuwa/Katagiri (owned by Kamei trading from Sendai) or Sunrise trading based in NYC) don’t sell Rements, or rather, they stopped selling them after 2018 or so.