Visiting Japan

VISA and Entry into Japan

• Guidance for VISA
• General Information on Visa (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
• Frequently Asked Questions (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
• What you need for entering Japan (Ministry of Health and Labour and Welfare) 
• Visitors to Miyagi, Fukushima, and Iwate prefectures
• Notice for Foreign Student in Japan
• Dear travelers to Japan: Overseas Travel Insurance is Recommended
• Visit Japan Web (web service that visitors can use for quarantine, immigration and custom procedures in order to enter Japan)

CIQ

• Fast Track (with this app you can complete some quarantine procedures before you enter Japan)
• Visit Japan Web (web service that you can use for immigration and custom procedures in order to enter Japan)
• Japan Custom
• Immigration Services Agency of Japan
  •  ​Preferential immigration treatment based on the point-based system for highly skilled professionals
• Animal Quarantine Japan
  • https://www.maff.go.jp/aqs/topix/attach/pdf/200418-15.pdf
  • https://www.maff.go.jp/aqs/topix/pdf/this-is-a-message-to-you-EN.pdf
• Plant Quarantine Japan 
  • https://www.maff.go.jp/pps/j/guidance/leaflet/pdf/l_en-2.pdf

Information on Japan

• Visiting Japan Links (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
• Japan Links (Japan Web)
• Japan Tourism Agency
  • Information on Tourism Destinations in Japan
  • Festivals throughout Japan
  • List of Hotels/Ryokans registered by the Act on Development of Hotels for Inbound Tourists
  • Useful Links​
• Japan National Tourism Organisation  (JNTO)
• Japan Association of Travel Agents  (JATA)
• Basic Resident Registration System for Foreign Residents in Japan（Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications）