Tokai Love Rock LS-120
guitar
Has sold for €2,100 over 2016–2025, across 16 used sales. Too few in the last two years for a typical price today.
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Not enough sold data for a typical price. 9 for sale, from €2,080.
About the Tokai Love Rock LS-120
The LS-120 was the top of Tokai's Les Paul-style range at the turn of the 1980s, the point where the flagship features come together: a nitrocellulose finish, the steeper headstock angle of the higher models, and DiMarzio PAF humbuckers fitted at the factory, something only the LS-100, LS-120 and LS-150 got. The number is the launch price in yen, ¥120,000, not a grade, which is why a later guitar with a higher number is not automatically a better one.
The same guitar wore three headstock names: Les Paul Reborn, Reborn Old (a few months in 1980) and Love Rock from 1980 onward. Some early ones carry a solid two-piece flame maple cap rather than a veneer. Hardware is metric, so a replacement ABR-1 bridge needs metric posts, and 1980 examples carry double-ring tuners. Finishes seen include Old Sunburst (the factory name), Cherry Sunburst and Violin Finish / Lemon Drop.
For sale right now
The best-priced as cards, a row of them; every other ad as a line, by ask. Each ask is the seller’s own number; the platform’s mark opens the listing. Each one says when we last confirmed it at its source: the price and availability are from that visit, so check the marketplace before you go.
Reverb
eBay United States
3 more live · €3,381–€4,689 · typical ask €3,199 · 2 Japan · 1 United Kingdom
Price history
Every recorded sale, one point each: 16 of them, placed by the day the ad went up. Too few sales to draw a trend through them without inventing one, so the points speak for themselves. Condition is mixed, so some of the spread is a mint against a fair rather than the market moving.
Recent sales by listing date
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Oct 2025 | €3,455$4,000 as sold | excellent |  United States | Reverb | Details |
| 13 Jul 2023 | €2,202$2,550 as sold | very good |  Canada | Reverb | Details |
| 26 May 2023 | €2,098$2,429 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 17 Sept 2022 | €3,455$4,000 as sold | mint | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 6 Jan 2018 | €1,296$1,500 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
A date is the day the ad went up. Marketplaces do not publish the day a sale closed; each of these had sold by the time we recorded it, in August 2026 and October 2026. A price is what the listing last asked, converted at that day’s rate.
Show all 16 recorded sales
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Jun 2025 | €3,455$4,000 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 11 Aug 2022 | €3,282$3,800 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 18 Oct 2020 | €2,591$3,000 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 14 Feb 2020 | €1,425$1,650 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 10 Sept 2019 | €2,073$2,400 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 31 Dec 2018 | €2,361$2,650 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 22 Aug 2018 | €1,723$1,995 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 23 Feb 2018 | €1,723$1,995 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 17 Oct 2017 | €1,720$1,999 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 24 Jul 2016 | €1,521$1,700 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 21 Jun 2016 | €1,960$2,200 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
A date is the day the ad went up. Marketplaces do not publish the day a sale closed; each of these had sold by the time we recorded it, in August 2026 and October 2026. A price is what the listing last asked, converted at that day’s rate.
Cheapest live: 
Cyprus €2,080 · 
Thailand €2,622 · 
Japan €2,933 · 
France €2,950 · before shipping
16 recorded sales of the Tokai Love Rock LS-120 from 2016–2025, all-time around €2,100. Too few in the last two years to quote a typical used price. Cheapest live €2,080 before shipping. Figures computed 19 October 2026.
What owners have said elsewhere
Paraphrased from 39 discussion threads among 43 owners, 2021-2026. No names, nothing quoted.
Owners date theirs from 1979 to 1982, and the tone is overwhelmingly warm: workmanship, sustain and how well the nitro has aged come up again and again, and more than one owner calls it the best Tokai ever made. Two weighed examples land between 3.6 and 3.75 kg. Two things are checked before anyone calls one a keeper: whether the maple cap is solid or veneer (pull a pickup and look at the cavity wall), and whether the DiMarzios are still in it, the stock pickups divide the room, with some owners swapping in PAF-style sets and reporting a clear improvement and others saying leave them alone. Not everyone is converted: one long-time owner sold a '79 because it did not out-sing his other high-end Japanese Les Pauls, while granting that nothing else ages like it. The advice for a buyer is to aim at 1979-1980 rather than at a high model number.