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Updated 2026-06-26. Canada's first JDM/kei vehicle importer ships across Ontario and the rest of Canada.
Headquartered in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Samurai Trucks fully services every truck — and customizes it to spec if you want — at our shop before shipping it to Timmins and delivering Canada-wide.
Home to around 42,000 people, Timmins sits roughly 2,645 km from our Grande Prairie, Alberta shop in a straight line.
Around Timmins, a kei truck mostly works off the pavement: forestry roads, cut-blocks, hunt-camp access, trap-line runs. It's narrow enough to fit on bush roads a half-ton scrapes through, geared low enough to crawl with a load, and quiet enough not to announce itself on a slow approach. We've shipped trucks into the Timmins region for this kind of work for years.
Forestry and hunting country around Timmins rewards a small, capable, quiet truck, and that's exactly the kei truck's brief. Where a full-size pickup is fighting trail width and burning fuel to idle up a logging road, a kei truck is doing the same job narrower, quieter, and on a fraction of the gas.
The three things that matter in the bush — width, crawl gearing, and noise — are all on the kei truck's side. Add a low ground-pressure footprint and easy, cheap maintenance, and it's a sensible tool for woodlot chores, camp support, and back-country property work in Ontario.
Just don't ask it to tow what a one-ton tows. Within its envelope — moving gear, game, tools, and fuel down a forestry road — it's hard to beat, and the Canadian parts supply behind it means a season-ending breakdown isn't an automatic wait on a package from Japan.
Registering a kei truck in Timmins runs through ServiceOntario. The standard sequence is: clear federal customs and Transport Canada at the border (kei trucks 15+ years old are import-eligible), complete the Safety Standards Certificate (SSC) at a licensed inspection station, then plate at the registry counter. The federal 15-year import rule applies the same way it does anywhere in Canada outside Quebec.
Some Timmins registry agents have processed many kei trucks; others have processed none. If you encounter pushback — an agent who isn't sure how to enter a right-hand-drive Japanese vehicle — that's a paperwork and supervisor-loop-in issue, not a legal barrier. The truck is admissible. Sometimes you wait while the agent loops in a supervisor; sometimes you come back the next day after the file has been reviewed. We don't pretend the Timmins counter experience is uniform across the province, but it does land successfully for our customers, and we walk every buyer through what to bring.
For the long-form provincial breakdown — insurance market, climate notes, off-road / farm use, FAQs — see our Ontario legal guide.
Ontario and Quebec deliveries are cross-country freight — rail-deck through to the closest hub plus a final-mile truck leg into Timmins. The total transit is normally a couple of weeks rather than a few days, but we'll give you a concrete quote and timeline before any deposit is taken.
We ship across Canada and have for over two decades. The Timmins delivery is part of any sale we quote, and we'll route the truck around weather and seasonal road conditions rather than promise an aggressive date we can't keep.
The single biggest determinant of how a kei truck holds up in Timmins long-term is the parts pipeline behind it. Parts and service run out of our Grande Prairie, Alberta shop and we ship parts across the country — the full catalogue is at parts.html and the Ontario-relevant pages link from there. Most Timmins-area mechanics will install parts you supply, and that's typically the fastest path: we ship the part, your mechanic does the install. For anything we don't stock in Canada, sourcing from Japan is a couple-of-weeks turnaround through our partner network.
If you're stuck on a fitment question or trying to figure out whether a particular part fits your specific chassis (DA63T, DA52T, S100P, HA6, etc.), call us at 780-533-3303 and we'll walk you through it. 25+ year kei truck importer, 25+ years deep, talks parts every day.
Buying a kei truck from us is straightforward in the abstract and full of small details in practice, and we walk every Timmins customer through both. The short version: we keep kei trucks in stock and have more arriving regularly, so depending on what you're after, your truck may already be on the ground or inbound — and for a specific build we'll source it to spec through our Japan network and inspect it before it ships. Either way you take delivery landed-Canada with all duties and taxes already paid. The longer version is the conversation we have on the phone.
We keep kei trucks in stock and have more arriving regularly, so depending on what you're after, your truck may already be here or inbound; for a specific spec we'll source it to order through our Japan network. Either way the order of operations is the same: a quick scoping call to understand the use case, a written quote with landed pricing, a deposit, then delivery to Timmins — federal duties and taxes already paid, with the SSC step at a Ontario inspection station and plating at the registry as the only provincial steps left.
Things we always confirm before deposit, especially for Timmins customers: that the spec we're proposing actually matches the use case (a 2WD Carry isn't the right truck for a forestry road, and a 4WD low-range Hijet is overkill for a property runabout); that the parts pipeline for the chassis we're picking is healthy; and that the registration path makes sense given the customer's specific situation (some buyers really don't need road registration and we'll say so). That up-front honesty is, frankly, why customers come back and refer their neighbours.
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