(プリクラ) Short for print club, a kind of instant photo booth that prints a number of small images directly onto stickers, which can then be peeled off, shared with friends and affixed to keitai, diaries, make-up cases and other common kogaru accoutrements. Print club machines have become more and more sophisticated in recent years, and many booths offer digital tools for post-production image manipulation (addition of stars, hearts, sparkly text and so on). It is an extremely popular social activity, and a large part of the fun is the squeezing of a large number of friends into the booth.

Purikura is a term of Japanese origin meaning either a type of photo booth or the product (a decorated photograph commonly measuring 1 inch by 1/2 inch) of such a photo booth. The name (written プリクラ in Japanese) is a shortened form of purinto kurabu (プリント倶楽部, a registered trademark): the quasi-English term is "print club" in Japanese pronunciation. In Japanese, the plural of purikura is the same as purikura.