Who needs a visa for Japan?
Eastern Asia · Tokyo
Photo: Romain Guy from San Francisco, USA / Wikimedia Commons · CC0
Of 198 nationalities, 72 enter Japan with no paperwork at all. The rest: 125 must be approved before they travel and 1 cannot travel there.
- Visa free 72
- eTA 2
- eVisa 7
- Visa required 116
- No admission 1
- Government fee
- 15,000 JPY
This is the government's own portal. We are not paid to send you there.
Checked 18 October 2026 — read the fees and rules on mofa.go.jp
Worth knowing
- Japan charges the visa fee only if the visa is issued. An approved agency adds its own handling fee.
- Visa fees rose on 1 July 2026. Older figures you see online are out of date.
- Depending on your nationality and purpose, the fee may be waived or differ from the standard amount.
Photo requirements
We have not yet read the photo rules for Japan on an official page, so we print no sizes. Photo rules we have checked, and official links for the rest
Resize a photo in your browser. It is never uploaded.
How long your passport must be valid for Japan: see passport validity by country.
What do you need?
Who needs what
No nationality matches that.
Visa free 72
Nothing to apply for and nothing to pay before you travel.
- Andorra 90d
- Argentina 90d
- Australia 90d
- Austria 90d
- Bahamas 90d
- Barbados 90d
- Belgium 90d
- Brazil 90d
- Brunei 30d
- Bulgaria 90d
- Canada 90d
- Chile 90d
- Costa Rica 90d
- Croatia 90d
- Cyprus 90d
- Czechia 90d
- Denmark 90d
- Dominican Republic 90d
- El Salvador 90d
- Estonia 90d
- Finland 90d
- France 90d
- Germany 90d
- Greece 90d
- Guatemala 90d
- Honduras 90d
- Hong Kong 90d
- Hungary 90d
- Iceland 90d
- Ireland 90d
- Israel 90d
- Italy 90d
- Latvia 90d
- Lesotho 90d
- Liechtenstein 90d
- Lithuania 90d
- Luxembourg 90d
- Macao 90d
- Malaysia 90d
- Malta 90d
- Mauritius 90d
- Mexico 90d
- Monaco 90d
- Montenegro 90d
- Netherlands 90d
- New Zealand 90d
- North Macedonia 90d
- Norway 90d
- Panama 90d
- Paraguay 90d
- Peru 90d
- Poland 90d
- Portugal 90d
- Romania 90d
- San Marino 90d
- Serbia 90d
- Singapore 90d
- Slovakia 90d
- Slovenia 90d
- South Korea 90d
- Spain 90d
- Suriname 90d
- Sweden 90d
- Switzerland 90d
- Taiwan 90d
- Thailand 15d
- Tunisia 90d
- Türkiye 90d
- United Arab Emirates 90d
- United Kingdom 90d
- United States 90d
- Uruguay 90d
eTA (electronic travel authorisation) 2
Not a visa. A short online form for travellers who are already visa-exempt, usually approved automatically in minutes to hours. No appointment, no interview, no documents.
eVisa (electronic visa) 7
A real visa application, made online instead of at an embassy. It is assessed, it takes days rather than minutes, and it can be refused.
Visa required 116
You must apply and be approved before you travel. Airlines will refuse to board you without it.
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Angola
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Belize
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Cuba
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- DR Congo
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Grenada
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Iran
- Iraq
- Jamaica
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Maldives
- Mali
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Micronesia
- Moldova
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Palestine
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Republic of the Congo
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turkmenistan
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Vatican City
- Venezuela
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
No admission 1
A government policy, not a paperwork problem. No agent or service can work around it.
Guides for Japan
About Japan
- Region
- Eastern Asia
- Capital
- Tokyo
- Population
- 123,366,734 2025 · 12th of 197
- Size
- 377,930 km² 61st largest of 199
- Density
- 326 per km²
- Language
- Japanese
- Currency
- Japanese yen JPY
Capital, area, languages and currency from the open country dataset, pulled 21 September 2026. Population from the World Bank, series updated 13 July 2026. Density is calculated from the two figures above.