Destination Visa Policy
Who needs a visa for Japan?
Find your passport below to see how you can enter Japan — then open the full breakdown with fees, documents, transit and health rules.
Passport validity
Valid for the full duration of your stay (6 months recommended as a buffer)
Blank pages
At least 1–2 blank visa pages
Yellow fever
Yellow fever certificate required only if you arrive from (or transited through) a country with risk of yellow fever transmission.
Visa Free (71 passports)
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e-Visa Required (7 passports)
Embassy Visa Required (119 passports)
Afghanistan Albania Algeria Angola Antigua & Barbuda Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Belarus Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia & Herzegovina Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Colombia Comoros 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 Ivory Coast Jamaica Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kosovo Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Maldives Mali Marshall Islands Mauritania Micronesia Moldova Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nauru Nepal Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Oman Pakistan Palau Palestine Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Republic of the Congo Russia Rwanda Samoa Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Solomon Islands Somalia South Sudan Sri Lanka St. Kitts & Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent & Grenadines Sudan Syria Tajikistan Tanzania Timor-Leste Togo Tonga Trinidad & Tobago Turkmenistan Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City Venezuela Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe
Entry Not Permitted (1 passports)
Standard short-stay tourism rules for ordinary passports. Special categories (diplomatic passports, residence-permit holders, crew) follow different rules — contact us for a personal assessment.