Covid Entry Check: Japan Travel Restrictions
This Japan dashboard provides you with information on travel restrictions, quarantine on entry, Covid-19 cases, entry requirements and green lane updates.
- Closed for Travel
- Up to 0 Days
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Vaccination
Entry is restricted to the following travellers:
• Citizens and PRs
• Spouse & Children of Citizens/PRs
• Other Residents (pass holders)
• Business Travellers
• Travellers from certain countries may enter, please see travel restrictions for details
Others:
For more information on visa's now allowed to enter, please see https://www.mofa.go.jp/ca/fna/page4e_001053.html
💉 Vaccine exemptions
There are no vaccine exemptions at this time.
For more information you may go to:
Authorities announced that Janssen, Vaxzevria and Covishield COVID-19 vaccines will be recognised as valid booster shots from 26 June. Travellers who received a recognised booster shot from Yellow countries/regions are exempt from upon-arrival testing and quarantine, while Authorities announced that Janssen, Vaxzevria and Covishield COVID-19 vaccines will be recognised as valid booster shots from 26 June. Travellers who received a recognised booster shot from Yellow countries/regions are exempt from upon-arrival testing and quarantine, while those from Red countries/regions are eligible for home quarantine instead of institutional quarantine.
📝 Forms
You are required to complete a pre-arrival form.
Details:
Travellers must complete a "Quarantine Questionnaire" at https://arqs-qa.followup.mhlw.go.jp/ . This will generate a QR code which must be presented upon arrival.
For more information you may go to:
https://arqs-qa.followup.mhlw.go.jp/
🌡️ Testing requirements
You will need a formal Medical Certificate presenting a Covid-19 test from an accepted establishment taken prior to your departure from the first embarkation point.
On Arrival you may be required to complete a test for Covid-19 and/or some form of medical screening, the cost borne by the traveller
Details:
Travellers must have a negative COVID-19 test result at most 72 hours prior to departure.
For more information you may go to:
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/seisakunitsuite/bunya/0000121431_00248.html
😷 Quarantine requirements
General arrivals will be required to quarantine for up to 5 days. Quarantine is to be served at your home / hotel
Details:
5-day home quarantine (or 3-day home quarantine + negative result of a voluntary test) are required, however, those who obtain a valid vaccination certificate are not required to have on-arrival test, home quarantine and other measures.
For more information you may go to:
https://www.mofa.go.jp/ca/fna/page4e_001053.html#title4
Details:
Regardless of the vaccination status of the entrants/returnees, on-arrival test, home quarantine and other measures are not required.
Countries:
Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Australia, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Canada, United States of America, Argentine, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kyrgyz, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Benin, Cameroon, Cote d’lvoire, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Nepal, Peru, Moldova, Western Sahara
Details:
Foreign travellers who have been in these countries are not allowed to enter.
• Vaccine exemptions do not apply to these travellers
Countries:
Algeria, Angola, Cameroon, Central Africa, Cote d’lvoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Namibia, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kyrgyz, Moldova, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia
