Comprehensive records of collected tick species data in Japan

We collected original papers, abstracts of academic conference speeches, research reports of university hospitals and private clinics, bulletins of science museums, and reports from prefectural health institutions containing tick sampling information published from 1911 to 2021 using bibliography in journals published by the Japanese Association for Acarology and the Acarological Society of Japan. We also searched such publications through Google scholar using scientific and Japanese names of 46 tick species. We listed the recorded tick names, collected years, prefectures, the islands, survey months, collected month, tick developmental stages (larva, nymph, and adult), collection method (flagging from vegetation or direct sampling from host animal), and host animal species. This dataset may be useful to analyse trend and changes in the distribution of ticks correlated with environmental factors such as land use and climate.