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We present galaxy counts at 15 microns using the Japanese AKARI satellite'sNEP-deep and NEP-wide legacy surveys at the North Ecliptic Pole. The totalnumber of sources detected are approximately 6700 and 10,700 down to limitingfluxes of 117 and 250 microJy (5 sigma) for the NEP-deep and NEP-wide surveyrespectively. We construct the Euclidean normalized differential source countsfor both data sets (assuming 80 percent completeness levels of 200 and 270microJy respectively) to produce the widest and deepest contiguous survey at 15microns to date covering the entire flux range from the deepest to shallowestsurveys made with the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) over areas sufficientlysignificant to overcome cosmic variance, detecting six times as many sources asthe largest survey carried out with ISO.We compare the results from AKARI withthe previous surveys with ISO at the same wavelength and the Spitzerobservations at 16 microns using the peek-up camera on its IRS instrument. TheAKARI source counts are consistent with other results to date reproducing thesteep evolutionary rise at fluxes less than a milliJansky and super-Euclideanslopes. We find the the AKARI source counts show a slight excess at fluxesfainter than 200 microJanskys which is not predicted by previous source countmodels at 15 microns. However, we caution that at this level we may besuffering from the effects of source confusion in our data. At brighter fluxesgreater than a milliJansky, the NEP-wide survey source counts agree with theNorthern ISO-ELAIS field results, resolving the discrepancy of the bright endcalibration in the ISO 15 micron source counts.

Source Counts at 15 microns from the AKARI NEP Survey