Tokai ST-100
guitar
Not enough sold data for a typical price — 7 sales on record all-time.
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About the Tokai ST-100
The ST-100 was the top of Tokai's Springy Sound Stratocaster line from 1978, and from January 1982 the base for the made-to-order ST-120, the only model above it. The 100 grade, 100,000 yen, buys a one-piece body in sen ash (alder on some) under nitrocellulose lacquer, offered in blonde and natural to show the sen and, from 1979, golden sunburst; black examples were re-sprayed to order over a blonde body. The neck is one-piece maple with a skunk stripe and a V profile, straight to 1980, a fat soft V from 1980 to 1982, on a 7.25 in radius with a 1-11/16 in nut, and a few carry flame maple. Gold-plated hardware is standard, which only the ST-100 and ST-120 had. The pickups are Tokai's hand-wound Type-A set, stamped E on the grey bottoms (about 5.6k, the pickguard stamped A to match), until the 1 January 1982 revision brought DiMarzio VS-1 single coils; the electrics sit on a soldering plate with Tokai's own three-position switch that offers two half-positions. Owners date theirs from 1978 to 1983.
Dating: serials from 1978 begin 800 and sit on the neck heel until the large stamped neck plate arrived late that year; the 100 was stamped behind the last fret from about 1979 to mid-1980, and written in the neck cavity before that; the colour code is in the neck-pickup route, the body and neck production stamps should match, and the selector switch carries a three-digit date code.
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.
Nothing live right now on the platforms we track.
Recent sales by listing date
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Mar 2026 | €2,684$3,000 as sold | excellent |  India | Reverb | Details |
| 22 Aug 2025 | €1,938$2,175 as sold | good |  United States | Reverb | Details |
| 15 Feb 2024 | €2,545$2,950 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 23 Aug 2022 | €2,017$2,338 as sold | very good |  Australia | Reverb | Details |
| 20 Feb 2022 | €1,503$1,742 as sold | mint | 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 September 2026 and October 2026. A price is what the listing last asked, converted at that day’s rate.
Show all 7 recorded sales
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Feb 2021 | €1,117$1,254 as sold | new |   Slovenia | Reverb | Details |
| 24 Oct 2018 | €2,157$2,500 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 September 2026 and October 2026. A price is what the listing last asked, converted at that day’s rate.
What owners have said elsewhere
Paraphrased from 27 discussion threads among 17 owners, 2021-2026. No names, nothing quoted.
Owners call the ST-100 extremely light and resonant and a pleasure to play, Tokai nailed these, and the 1980-82 fat soft V neck the one to have; a collector who has owned most Japanese Strats but never an ST-100 allows it might be the one guitar to beat a 1982 American Vintage. The dissent is about the premium: you pay for rarity and slightly better wood, not a better guitar than the ST-80; one owner of two ST-100s and two Fender JV115s prefers the Fenders' feel and chime, and the post-1982 DiMarzio VS-1 pickups are rated the weakest of the era's Strat pickups next to Tokai's own E and U sets.