I saw a model 4 Premium for sale in a high end store, but did not take note of the price. I forgot to mention that another factor increasing USA prices is the distributor markup, which is justified because that guy has to be responsible for warranty work. If you buy in Japan, you still get a warranty but you’d have to ship your TT from USA to Japan, and back, in order to take advantage of it. I did note the price of an SP1000R (SP10R + plinth + tonearm) in one of my favorite stores, ~2000000 yen. We would get 10% off on that, because this store would deduct the Japanese VAT from that number, if you show US passport. So, 1.6M yen. You can do the conversion probably based on ~135 yen to dollar. Then you’d have to figure out how to schlep the big heavy box back to the USA. They won’t ship but you may be able to find an independent shipper in Tokyo.