Tokai ST-65
guitar
Has sold for €860 over 2017–2024, across 11 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. 3 for sale, from €999.
About the Tokai ST-65
The ST-65 is the ST-60 Springy Sound with the N option, a natural finish, sometimes a matching headstock, at 5,000 yen over the ST-60, the same surcharge that turned an ST-50 into an ST-55; underneath it is the ST-60's one-piece alder body, hand-wound E-stamped pickups and Deluxe-stripe vintage tuners. Natural shows the grain, and that is the point of the model; a slab-board 64-pattern natural of 1980-81 is called very rare. The metallic-green Springys were sold as ST-50, 55, 60 or 65 without much consistency, and the mid-1980s ST65 Super Edition with the Argus SHIFT tremolo and matching headstock is a different guitar. Owners date theirs to 1979 and 1980-81, and the Super Edition to 1985.
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 StatesPrice history
Every recorded sale, one point each: 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Dec 2024 | €939$1,089 as sold | very good |   Romania | Reverb | Details |
| 28 Jul 2024 | €858$995 as sold | very good |  United States | Reverb | Details |
| 23 Nov 2022 | €1,078$1,250 as sold | good |  Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 11 Nov 2022 | €1,466$1,699 as sold | good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 17 Apr 2022 | €1,366$1,583 as sold | excellent |  United Kingdom | 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 Marketplaces do not publish the day a sale closed; each of these had sold by the time we recorded it, in September 2026 and October 2026.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 11 recorded sales
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Jan 2022 | €776$899 as sold | good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 9 Jan 2020 | €600$695 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 11 Dec 2019 | €862$999 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 25 Nov 2019 | €647$750 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 20 Apr 2019 | €1,335$1,499 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 2 Nov 2017 | €414$465 as sold | very good | Japan | 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.
Cheapest live: Japan €999 · before shipping
11 recorded sales of the Tokai ST-65 from 2017–2024, all-time around €860. Too few in the last two years to quote a typical used price. Cheapest live €999 before shipping. Figures computed 18 October 2026.
What owners have said elsewhere
Paraphrased from 11 discussion threads among 11 owners, 2022-2025. No names, nothing quoted.
A 1979 natural is called possibly the best grain and book-matching ever seen on a natural Strat; a slab-board example is called their best model, the ST-60's body and neck with better tuners; a Super Edition owner since 1985 loves it to bits and calls the SHIFT the best tremolo ever; and one owner rates the Springy Sound the equal of a pre-CBS Fender, which drew a sharp rebuke.