Japan: visa, passport and entry requirements
Passport · Passport validity: for the length of your stay
Entry document
- ✓Passport
- ✕National ID card
Passport validity
for the length of your stay
Must be valid for the length of your stay. You need a blank page for your visa stamp. You will be denied entry if you do not have a valid travel document or try to use a passport that has been reported lost or stolen. — See your travel provider to ensure your other travel documents meet requirements.
Visa
Depends on length of stay
on arrival for tourism or business, or apply for an extension at the nearest immigration office — up to 90 days (tourism or business), with possible extension for another 90 days
Your whole journey
Stopovers aren’t in our pages yet: the Sherpa link checks them for your nationality.
Passport, visa and stopovers: check on Sherpa ↗Free tool, pre-filled for a British passport: change the nationality if needed.
Recommended vaccinations
General vaccine recommendations
Check the latest vaccine recommendations for Japan. See where to get vaccines and whether you have to pay on the NHS travel vaccinations page