Visa requirements for Japanese citizens

Visa requirements for Japanese citizens for visits to various territories, disputed areas, partially recognized countries and restricted zones:

Visitor to	Visa requirement	Notes (excluding departure fees)
Europe
Abkhazia	Visa required	Tourists from all countries (except Georgia) can visit Abkhazia for a period not exceeding 24 hours as part of an organized tourist group.[276]
Mount Athos	Special permit required	Special permit required (4 days: 25 euro for Orthodox visitors, 35 euro for non-Orthodox visitors, 18 euro for students). There is a visitors' quota: maximum 100 Orthodox and 10 non-Orthodox per day and women are not allowed.[277][278]
Brest and  Grodno	Visa not required	Visa-free for 10 days[279]
Republic of Crimea	eVisa	16 days. Visa policy of Russia applies de facto.[280]
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus	Visa not required	3 months[281]
UN Buffer Zone in Cyprus	Access Permit required	Access Permit is required for travelling inside the zone, except Civil Use Areas.[282]
Faroe Islands	Visa not required	90 days.[283]
Åland	Visa not required	90 days within any 180 day period
Büsingen am Hochrhein and  Heligoland	Visa not required	90 days within any 180 day period
Livigno and  Campione d'Italia	Visa not required	90 days within any 180 day period
Gibraltar	Visa not required	Up to 6 months.[284]
Guernsey	Visa not required	90 days within a 12-month period.[285]
Isle of Man	Visa not required	Up to 6 months.[286]
Jersey	Visa not required	Up to 6 months.[287]
Jan Mayen	Permit required	Permit issued by the local police required for staying for less than 24 hours[288] and permit issued by the Norwegian police for staying for more than 24 hours.[289][290]
Svalbard	Visa not required	Unlimited period under Svalbard Treaty.[291]
Kosovo	Visa not required	90 days[292]
Artsakh	Visa on arrival	Travellers can obtain the visa on arrival at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs office in Stepanakert upon arrival, with different prices for Visa 21 days/1 month/2 months/3 months.[293][294][295] Holders of a passport containing an Artsakh visa (expired or valid) or any evidence of travel to Artsakh (stamps) will be permanently denied entry to Azerbaijan.[296]
Azores and  Madeira	Visa not required	90 days within any 180 day period
Russia	Special authorization required	Several closed cities and regions in Russia require special authorization.[297]
Samnaun	Visa not required	90 days within any 180 day period
South Ossetia	Visa not required	Multiple entry visa to Russia and three-day prior notification are required to enter South Ossetia.[298][299]
Transnistria	Visa not required	Registration required after 24h.[300][301]
Africa
Eritrea outside Asmara	Travel permit required	To travel in the rest of the country, a Travel Permit for Foreigners is required (20 Eritrean nakfa).[302]
Mayotte	Visa not required	90 days within any 180 day period.[303]
Réunion	Visa not required	90 days within any 180 day period.[303]
Ascension Island	eVisa	3 months within any year period.[304][305]
Saint Helena	Visitor's Pass required	Visitor's Pass granted on arrival valid for 4/10/21/60/90 days for 12/14/16/20/25 pound sterling.[306]
Tristan da Cunha	Permission required	Permission to land required for 15/30 pounds sterling (yacht/ship passenger) for Tristan da Cunha Island or 20 pounds sterling for Gough Island, Inaccessible Island or Nightingale Islands.[307]
Canary Islands,  Ceuta and  Melilla	Visa not required	90 days within any 180 day period.
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic	Undefined	Undefined visa regime in the Western Sahara, same entry requirements with Morocco, controlled territory.
Somaliland	Visa on arrival	30 days for 30 US dollars, payable on arrival.[308][309]
Sudan outside Khartoum	Travel permit required	All foreigners traveling more than 25 kilometers outside of Khartoum must obtain a travel permit.
Darfur	Travel permit required	Separate travel permit is required.[310]
Asia
British Indian Ocean Territory	Special permit required	Special permit required.[311]
India PAP/RAP	PAP/RAP required	Protected Area Permit (PAP) required for whole states of Nagaland and Sikkim, and some parts of states Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh.[312][313][314] Restricted Area Permit (RAP) required for all of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and parts of Sikkim. Some of these requirements are occasionally lifted for a year.[315][316]
Iraqi Kurdistan	Free Visa on arrival	Visa free stamp on arrival for 30 days is available at Erbil and Sulaymaniyah airports.
Baikonur & Priozersk	Special permission required	Special permission required for the town of Baikonur and surrounding areas in Kyzylorda Oblast, and the town of Gvardeyskiy near  Almaty.[317]
Kish Island	Visa not required	Visitors to Kish Island do not require a visa.[318]
Sabah and Sarawak	Visa not required	These states have their own immigration authorities and passport is required to travel to them, however the same visa applies.[319]
Maldives outside Malé	Permission required	Tourists are generally prohibited from visiting non-resort islands without the express permission of the Government of Maldives.[320]
North Korea outside Pyongyang	Special permit required	People are not allowed to leave the capital city, tourists can only leave the capital with a governmental tourist guide (no independent moving)
Palestine	Permit Required	Arrival by sea to Gaza Strip not allowed.[321][322]
Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province	OIVR permit required	OIVR permit required (15+5 Tajikistani Somoni) and another special permit (free of charge) is required for Lake Sarez.[323][324][325]
Hong Kong	Visa not required	3 months[326][327]
Macau	Visa not required	90 days.[328]
Tibet Autonomous Region	TTP required	Tibet Travel Permit required (10 US Dollars).[329][330]
Turkmenistan	Special permit required	A special permit, issued prior to arrival by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is required if visiting the following places: Atamurat, Cheleken, Dashoguz, Serakhs and Serhetabat.[331]
Korean Demilitarized Zone	Restricted area
UNDOF Zone and Ghajar	Restricted area
Yemen outside Sana’a or Aden	Special permission required	Special permission needed for travel outside Sana’a or Aden.[332]
Americas
Anguilla	Visa not required	3 months.[333]
Bermuda	Visa not required	Up to 6 months, decided on arrival.[334]
British Virgin Islands	Visa not required	30 days, extensions possible.[335]
Cayman Islands	Visa not required	6 months.[336]
Montserrat	Visa not required	6 months.[337]
Turks and Caicos Islands	Visa not required	90 days.[338]
Aruba,  Curaçao and  Sint Maarten	Visa not required	3 months.[339][340]
Bonaire,  Sint Eustatius and  Saba	Visa not required	3 months.[341][342]
French Guiana＆ Saint Pierre and Miquelon	Visa not required	90 days within any 180 day period.[343][303]
French West Indies	Visa not required	90 days within any 180 day period. French West Indies refers to Martinique,  Guadeloupe,  Saint Martin and  Saint Barthélemy.[344]
Greenland	Visa not required	90 days.[283]
Puerto Rico	Visa not required	Visa not required under the Visa Waiver Program, for 90 days on arrival from overseas for 2 years. ESTA required.[345]
U.S. Virgin Islands	Visa not required	Visa not required under the Visa Waiver Program, for 90 days on arrival from overseas for 2 years. ESTA required.[346]
Margarita Island	Visa not required	All visitors are fingerprinted.[347]
San Andrés and Leticia	Tourist Card on arrival	Visitors arriving at Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport and Alfredo Vásquez Cobo International Airport must buy tourist cards on arrival.[348]
Galápagos	Pre-registration required	Online pre-registration is required. Transit Control Card must also be obtained at the airport prior to departure.[349]
Oceania
Ashmore and Cartier Islands	Special authorisation required	Special authorisation required.[350]
Macquarie Island	Special authorisation permit	A written authorisation of the Director of National Parks and Wildlife is required.
Cook Islands	Visa not required	31 days.[351]
Niue	Visa not required	30 days.[352][353]
Tokelau	Entry permit required	10 days/3 months/1 year. Visitors permits/Residence permits/Work permits/Special permits granted, allow the permit holder to be in Tokelau, for up to 10 days/3 months/1 year, unless otherwise specified. Apply for a travel permit at the Tokelau office in Apia, Samoa, at least 2 weeks prior to travel. Visitors are required to hold proof of sufficient funds to cover their stay.[354] The amount of funds needed is NZD 1,000 - per person per month of stay or NZD 400 - if accommodation. Tokelau can only be reached by boat from Samoa, and a permit from the Samoan Immigration Authorities is required to leave and re-enter Samoa.[355]
Norfolk Island	Electronic Travel Authority	120 days. Visa is issued upon arrival for a visit of up to max stay of 120 days, for holders of a multiple entry Electronic Travel authority (ETA) issued by Australia, valid 30 days beyond the period of intended stay in Norfolk Island. From 1 July 2016 all movement between Norfolk Island and Australian mainland are considered as domestic movement, however all passenger are still required to carry passports or, for Australian citizens, some type of photographic identification and pass Customs and Immigration. Normal Australian Customs and Immigration procedures apply when entry is made from outside Australia. Passenger not carrying their passports aren't eligible to purchase duty-free goods on Norfolk Island.[356]
Christmas Island	Visa not required	90 days. Passports and visas are not required when travelling from the Australian mainland. However, photographic identification must be produced for clearance through Customs and Immigration. Normal Australian Customs and Immigration procedures apply when entry is made from outside Australia.
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	Visa not required	90 days. Passports and visas are not required when travelling from the Australian mainland. However, photographic identification must be produced for clearance through Customs and Immigration. Normal Australian Customs and Immigration procedures apply when entry is made from outside Australia.
Lau Province	Special permission required	Special permission required.[357]
Clipperton Island	Special permit required	Special permit required.[358]
French Polynesia	Visa not required	90 days within any 180 day period.[359]
New Caledonia	Visa not required	90 days within any 180 day period.[303]
Wallis and Futuna	Visa not required	90 days within any 180 day period.[303]
Pitcairn Islands	Visa not required	14 days visa free and landing fee US$35 or tax of US$5 if not going ashore.[360][361][362]
American Samoa	Electronic authorization	30 days.[363]
Guam	Visa not required	45 days.[364]
Northern Mariana Islands	Visa not required	45 days.[365]
United States Minor Outlying Islands	Special permits required	Special permits required for Midway Atoll, Wake Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Palmyra Atoll, Howland Island, Baker Island, Jarvis Island, and Navassa Island.[366][367][368][369][370][371][372]
South Atlantic and Antarctica
Falkland Islands	Visa not required	30 days.[373]
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	Permit required	Pre-arrival permit from the Commissioner required (72 hours/1 month for 110/160 pounds sterling).[374][375]
Antarctica	Special permits required	Special permits required for  British Antarctic Territory,  French Southern and Antarctic Lands,  Argentine Antarctica, Australian Antarctic Territory, Bouvet Island, Chilean Antarctic Territory, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Peter I Island, Queen Maud Land, Ross Dependency.[376][377][378][379][380][381][382][383][384][385][386][387]

Many countries require a minimum number of blank pages to be available in the passport being presented, typically one or two pages.[397] Endorsement pages, which often appear after the visa pages, are not counted as being valid or available.

Cover of the new International Certificate of Vaccination issued by the Bureau of Quarantine in the Philippines since 2021

Many African countries, including Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo, South Sudan, Uganda, and Zambia, require all incoming passengers older than nine months to one year[398] to have a current International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis, as does the South American territory of French Guiana.[399]

Some other countries require vaccination only if the passenger is coming from an infected area or has visited one recently or has transited for 12 hours in those countries: Algeria, Botswana, Cabo Verde, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Lesotho, Libya, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tunisia, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.[400][401]

An increasing number of countries have been imposing additional COVID-19 related health restrictions such as quarantine measures and testing requirements. Many countries increasingly consider the vaccination status of travellers with regard to quarantine requirements or when deciding to allow them entry at all.[402]

Very few countries, such as Paraguay, just require a valid passport on arrival.

However many countries and groupings now require only an identity card – especially from their neighbours. Other countries may have special bilateral arrangements that depart from the generality of their passport validity length policies to shorten the period of passport validity required for each other's citizens[403][404] or even accept passports that have already expired (but not been cancelled).[405]

Some countries, such as Japan,[406] Ireland and the United Kingdom,[407] require a passport valid throughout the period of the intended stay.

In the absence of specific bilateral agreements, countries requiring passports to be valid for at least 6 more months on arrival include Afghanistan, Algeria, Anguilla, Bahrain,[408] Bhutan, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Curaçao, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, Gabon, Guinea Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel,[409] Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Laos, Madagascar, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Peru,[410] Philippines,[411] Qatar, Rwanda, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tokelau, Tonga, Turkey, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Vanuatu, Venezuela, and Vietnam.[412]

Countries requiring passports valid for at least 4 months on arrival include Micronesia and Zambia.

Countries requiring passports with a validity of at least 3 months beyond the date of intended departure include Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Honduras, Montenegro, Nauru, Moldova and New Zealand. Similarly, the EEA countries of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, all European Union countries (except the Republic of Ireland) together with Switzerland also require 3 months validity beyond the date of the bearer's intended departure unless the bearer is an EEA or Swiss national.

Countries requiring passports valid for at least 3 months on arrival include Albania, North Macedonia, Panama, and Senegal.

Bermuda requires passports to be valid for at least 45 days upon entry.

Countries that require a passport validity of at least one month beyond the date of intended departure include Eritrea, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Macau, the Maldives[413] and South Africa.

Some countries, including Australia, Canada, Fiji, New Zealand and the United States,[414] routinely deny entry to non-citizens who have a criminal record while others impose restrictions depending on the type of conviction and the length of the sentence.

Entry Permit to Nagorno-Karabakh issued in Yerevan as a stand-alone document rather than a visa affixed in a passport

The government of a country can declare a diplomat persona non grata, banning entry into that country. In non-diplomatic use, the authorities of a country may also declare a foreigner persona non grata permanently or temporarily, usually because of unlawful activity.[415]

For example, Azerbaijan bans visits by foreign citizens that have previously entered Azerbaijan through non-Azerbaijani controlled borders. This includes the illegal entry into the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh[416] (the de facto independent Republic of Artsakh), its surrounding Armenian-occupied territories, and the Azerbaijani exclaves of Karki, Yuxarı Əskipara, Barxudarlı, and Sofulu which are de jure part of Azerbaijan but under the control of Armenia. Foreign citizens who enter these territories will be permanently banned from entering the Republic of Azerbaijan[417] and will be included in their "list of personae non gratae".[418] As of 2 September 2019, the list mentioned 852 people.

Israeli border control Entry Permit (issued as a stand-alone document rather than a stamp affixed in a passport)

Kuwait,[419] Lebanon,[420] Libya,[421] Syria,[422] and Yemen[423] do not allow entry to people with passport stamps from Israel or whose passports have either a used or an unused Israeli visa, or where there is evidence of previous travel to Israel such as entry or exit stamps from neighbouring border posts in transit countries such as Jordan and Egypt.

To circumvent this Arab League boycott of Israel, the Israeli immigration services have now mostly ceased to stamp foreign nationals' passports on either entry to or exit from Israel (unless the entry is for some work-related purposes). Since 15 January 2013, Israel no longer stamps foreign passports at Ben Gurion Airport. Passports are still (as of 22 June 2017) stamped at Erez when passing into and out of Gaza.

Iran refuses admission to holders of passports containing an Israeli visa or stamp that is less than 12 months old.

Several countries mandate that all travellers, or all foreign travellers, be fingerprinted on arrival and will refuse admission to or even arrest travellers who refuse to comply. In some countries, such as the United States, this may apply even to transit passengers who merely wish to change planes rather than go landside.[424]

Fingerprinting countries/regions include Afghanistan,[425][426] Argentina,[427] Brunei, Cambodia,[428] China,[429] Ethiopia,[430] Ghana, Guinea,[431] India, Japan,[432][433] Kenya (both fingerprints and a photo are taken),[434] Malaysia upon entry and departure,[435] Mongolia, Paraguay, Saudi Arabia,[436] Singapore, South Korea,[437] Taiwan, Thailand,[438] Uganda,[439] the United Arab Emirates and the United States.

Many countries also require a photo be taken of people entering the country. The United States, which does not fully implement exit control formalities at its land frontiers (although long mandated by domestic legislation),[440][441][442] intends to implement facial recognition for passengers departing from international airports to identify people who overstay their visa.[443]

Together with fingerprint and face recognition, iris scanning is one of three biometric identification technologies internationally standardised since 2006 by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) for use in e-passports[444] and the United Arab Emirates conducts iris scanning on visitors who need to apply for a visa.[445][446] The United States Department of Homeland Security has announced plans to greatly increase the biometric data it collects at US borders.[447] In 2018, Singapore began trials of iris scanning at three land and maritime immigration checkpoints.[448][449]