Who are the top 5 YouTubers in Japan? (November 2020)

In the past few years, we have seen HikakinTV and Hajime Syacho dominate YouTube Japan but are they #1?

According to Yutura, as of November 2020, here are the top 5:

1位キッズライン（1210万人）
2位せんももあいしーCh（900万人）
3位はじめしゃちょー（898万人）
4位 HikakinTV（875万人）
5位フィッシャーズ（652万人）

Currently, Kids Line has the #1 YouTube video created back on November 25, 2011 and has 12.1 million subscribers and over 9 billion views.

In second place, another children’s YouTube channel – Sen, Momo, Ai & Shii’s Channel which has been around since July 2006 and has 9 million subscribers and has received over 6 billion views. In fact, this channel has grown by 1.5 subscribers i the last six months.

In third place is YouTuber Hajime Syacho with 8.98 million subscribers and has been around since August 30, 2012 and has over 7.6 billion views.

In fourth place is one of the most well-known YouTubers and the person who made YouTube Japan something that many Japanese hope to become when they get older, Hikakin with his channel Hikakin TV. Hikakin TV has 8.75 million subscribers and over 7.7 billion views and has been around since July 19, 2011.