Entry requirements
Who can enter Japan
Entry to Japan depends heavily on nationality: 72 passports are visa-free, 2 are cleared on arrival or by authorisation, and 123 need an application. 1 passport is not admitted at all. It ranks #99 for openness, tier C.
By nationality
Japan entry rules, nationality by nationality
74 passports enter Japan without an advance visa
Japan ranks #99 for openness
Visa-free, visa on arrival and eTA combined, out of 198 passports in our dataset. How we count
Openness reflects visa policy only — not safety, government travel advisories, or how easy the country is to travel in.
- Visa-free
- 72
- Visa on arrival
- 0
- eTA
- 2
- eVisa
- 7
- Visa required
- 116
- Andorra90 days
- Argentina90 days
- Australia90 days
- Austria90 days
- Bahamas90 days
- Barbados90 days
- Belgium90 days
- Brazil90 days
- Brunei30 days
- Bulgaria90 days
- Canada90 days
- Chile90 days
- Costa Rica90 days
- Croatia90 days
- Cyprus90 days
- Czechia90 days
- Denmark90 days
- Dominican Republic90 days
- El Salvador90 days
- Estonia90 days
- Finland90 days
- France90 days
- Germany90 days
- Greece90 days
- Guatemala90 days
- Honduras90 days
- Hong Kong90 days
- Hungary90 days
- Iceland90 days
- Ireland90 days
- Israel90 days
- Italy90 days
- Latvia90 days
- Lesotho90 days
- Liechtenstein90 days
- Lithuania90 days
- Luxembourg90 days
- Macao90 days
- Malaysia90 days
- Malta90 days
- Mauritius90 days
- Mexico90 days
- Monaco90 days
- Montenegro90 days
- Netherlands90 days
- New Zealand90 days
- North Macedonia90 days
- Norway90 days
- Panama90 days
- Paraguay90 days
- Peru90 days
- Poland90 days
- Portugal90 days
- Romania90 days
- San Marino90 days
- Serbia90 days
- Singapore90 days
- Slovakia90 days
- Slovenia90 days
- South Korea90 days
- Spain90 days
- Suriname90 days
- Sweden90 days
- Switzerland90 days
- Taiwan90 days
- Thailand15 days
- Tunisia90 days
- Turkey90 days
- United Arab Emirates90 days
- United Kingdom90 days
- United States90 days
- Uruguay90 days
No passports match this filter.
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Angola
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Belize
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Congo
- 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
- 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
About this data
How to read these categories
Visa-free means no permission is needed before or on arrival; visa on arrival and eTA are granted at the border or online in minutes; eVisa and consular visa must be approved before you travel.
Data last verified: August 20, 2026. How we count
Openness reflects visa policy only. It says nothing about safety, government travel advisories, flight connectivity or how easy the trip actually is.
No destination-specific primary source has been recorded for Japan yet — this column comes from the general dataset sweep rather than an individual re-verification.
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