Tokai ST-45
guitar
Not enough sold data for a typical price — 5 sales on record all-time.
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Not enough sold data for a typical price. 7 for sale, from €622.
About the Tokai ST-45
The ST-45 is the ST-42 Springy Sound with the 5,000-yen option, a rosewood-veneer board or a colour, of the late 1970s, a bottom-of-range poly-finished Strat; owners assume the ceramic-magnet pickups of the lowest grades, but U-stamped grey-bottoms turn up inside, the grade 45 is stamped on the board at the first fret on a rosewood one, and the name carried on into the 1982 Goldstar Sound ST-45. The pickguard was single-ply; a three-ply guard on a maple-neck example is a later swap. Owners date theirs to 1979, and a Goldstar-era one to 1982.
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.
eBay Germany
eBay United States
1 more live · €791–€791 · typical ask €747
Recent sales by listing date
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Aug 2026 | €776$900 as sold | good |  United States | Reverb | Details |
| 21 Feb 2024 | €472$548 as sold | very good |  Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 20 Oct 2021 | €516$598 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 19 Jun 2016 | €344$399 as sold | excellent | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 3 Aug 2020 | €798$924 as sold | very good |   Bulgaria | 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 Marketplaces do not publish the day a sale closed; each of these had sold by the time we recorded it, in September 2026. A price is what the listing last asked, converted at that day’s rate.
Cheapest live: Japan €622 · before shipping
5 recorded sales of the Tokai ST-45, too few to quote a typical used price. Cheapest live €622 before shipping. Figures computed 18 October 2026.
What owners have said elsewhere
Paraphrased from 5 discussion threads among 6 owners, 2021-2023. No names, nothing quoted.
A 1979 is called custom-shop level despite the poly, its owner's number two behind an AST62, once someone gets to play one it is over, they are just so good, a rosewood-board owner loves the neck, another calls it stunning to look at and to play, and a 1982 Goldstar ST-45 has been played to death and is said to be as good as a Fender, as almost every Tokai owner says.